KR · Consumer Defensive
What a holder would want to know before buying KR: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 11% above the lowest point of the past year and 18% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 34% of days and more expensive on 66%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 87% of days.
3% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 3 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 47%; the longest took 4.6 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.
Now 18% below the Mar 2026 peak.
The Kroger Co. · Consumer Defensive · Grocery Stores · a large company worth $36.40B
The Kroger Co. operates as a food and drug retailer in the United States. The company operates combination food and drug stores, multi-department stores, marketplace stores, and price impact warehouses. Its combination…
revenue profit
Sales of $147.64B in 2026, with $1.02B of profit. Sales grew in 2 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 9.5 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $34 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $11 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 2.54% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Nov 16.
24 analysts: 13 say buy, 11 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $68.32 (range $57.00–$85.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 2 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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