In the latest trading session,, 1.29 million Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.61. With the company’s most recent per share price at $70.87 changing hands around $0.5 or 0.71% at last look, the market valuation stands at $46.84B. KR’s current price is a discount, trading about -3.89% off its 52-week high of $73.63. The share price had its 52-week low at $49.04, which suggests the last value was 30.8% up since then. When we look at Kroger Co’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 9.12 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 7.47 million.
Analysts gave the Kroger Co (KR) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 2.35. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 29 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 7 recommended KR as a Hold, 22 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Kroger Co’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 1.46.
Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) trade information
Instantly KR is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action -2.89%, the performance over the past five days has been red. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 15.90%, with the 5-day performance at -2.89% in the red. However, in the 30-day time frame, Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) is 6.22% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 34.23 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 4.12 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 73, meaning bulls need an upside of 2.92% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, KR’s forecast low is 58 with 73 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -3.01% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 18.16% for it to hit the projected low.
Kroger Co (KR) estimates and forecasts
Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach 1.48% up from the last financial year.
Consensus estimates given by 17 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 45.36B. 17 analysts are of the opinion that Kroger Co’s revenue for the current quarter will be 34.13B. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 45.27B and 33.91B respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at 0.19%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at 0.64%.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 12.51%. The 2025 estimates are for Kroger Co earnings to increase by 5.79%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 7.37% per year.
KR Dividends
Kroger Co is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Mar-05. The 1.76% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 1.25. It is important to note, however, that the 1.76% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 2.0 per year.
Kroger Co (NYSE:KR)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 8.38% of Kroger Co shares while 83.49% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 91.13%. There are 83.49% institutions holding the Kroger Co stock share, with VANGUARD GROUP INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 11.2659% of the shares, roughly 81.23 million KR shares worth $4.06 billion.
BLACKROCK INC. holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.5685% or 61.78 million shares worth $3.08 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Dec 31, 2024 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 20.36 shares estimated at $1.44 billion under it, the former controlled 3.08% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.57% of the shares, roughly 17.02 shares worth around $1.21 billion.
