Kroger Co (KR) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $70.23, with 6.14 million shares of worth about $430.92 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 12.66% during that period and on July 02, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.57%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 661.00M shares, out of which, 655.69M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -2.76% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 2.98%. Year-to-date (YTD), KR shares are showing a performance of 40.66% which increased to 14.85% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $50.26 but also hit the highest price of $74.11 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Kroger Co shares is 8.62 million. The stock is currently trading 2.53% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 1.32% for SMA50 and it goes to 11.03% higher than SMA200.
Kroger Co (NYSE: KR) currently have 661.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 88.29% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $46.43B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.58. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 19.09, while it has posted earnings per share of $3.68 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.32 and has Quick Ratio of 0.53 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.83. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for KR, volatility over the week remained 1.95% while standing at 2.02% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.56% while it is estimated to increase by 9.91% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 8.23% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 12.51% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Telsey Advisory Group on June 23, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $73 and $82 to it. Coverage by Melius stated Kroger Co (KR) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on May 20, 2025, suggesting a price target of $70 for the stock. On April 01, 2025, Melius Downgrade their recommendations, while on February 04, 2025, Goldman Resumed their ratings for the stock with a price target of $70. Stock get a Neutral rating from Citigroup on January 24, 2025.
