Kroger - KR Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kroger in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 7 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" KR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in KR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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15 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Kroger's stock. Their KR share price forecasts range from $38.00 to $75.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $52.89 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 18.3% from the stock's current price.
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Kroger's stock was trading at $45.26 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, KR stock has decreased by 1.2% and is now trading at $44.70.
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Kroger saw a decline in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 18,780,000 shares, a decline of 9.1% from the August 15th total of 20,670,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 5,670,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.3 days. Currently, 2.7% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, December 1st 2022.
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The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR) announced its earnings results on Friday, September, 9th. The company reported $0.90 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.06. The firm earned $34.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $34.44 billion. Kroger had a net margin of 1.70% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 31.72%. Kroger's revenue for the quarter was up 9.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.80 earnings per share.
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Kroger announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, September 15th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, November 15th will be given a dividend of $0.26 per share on Thursday, December 1st. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.33%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, November 14th.
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Kroger (NYSE:KR) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.38%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 15 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 31.61%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, KR will have a dividend payout ratio of 24.88% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Kroger's stock split on the morning of Tuesday, July 14th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, June 25th 2015. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Monday, July 13th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Kroger declared that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, December 30th 2021, which allows the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 3.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Kroger issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Friday, September, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.95-$4.05 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.96. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

3,238 employees have rated Kroger Chief Executive Officer Rodney McMullen on Glassdoor.com. Rodney McMullen has an approval rating of 46% among the company's employees. This puts Rodney McMullen in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Kroger trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "KR."

Kroger's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Bowling Portfolio Management LLC (0.01%), Pensionfund Sabic (0.00%), Symmetry Partners LLC (0.00%), Park National Corp OH (0.00%), Wedmont Private Capital (0.00%) and Csenge Advisory Group (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Bobby S Shackouls, Calvin J Kaufman, Carin L Fike, Carin L Fike, Christine S Wheatley, Clyde R Moore, Gary Millerchip, Joseph A Grieshaber Jr, Marc Benioff, Mark C Tuffin, Mary Ellen Adcock, Michael Joseph Donnelly, Robert W Clark, Ronald Sargent, Stephen M Mckinney, Stuart Aitken, Susan J Kropf, Timothy A Massa, Todd A Foley, Valerie L Jabbar, W Rodney Mcmullen and Yael Cosset.
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One share of KR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $44.70.

Kroger (NYSE:KR) has a market capitalization of $32.00 billion and generates $137.89 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $1.66 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.29 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 420,000 workers across the globe.

Kroger's mailing address is 1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH, 45202. The official website for the company is www.thekrogerco.com. The company can be reached via phone at (513) 762-4000, via email at kroger.ir@kroger.com, or via fax at 513-762-1575.