Kroger - KR Stock Forecast, Price & News

18 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kroger in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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18 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Kroger's shares. Their KR share price forecasts range from $42.00 to $75.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $53.65 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.6% from the stock's current price.
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Kroger's stock was trading at $44.58 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, KR stock has increased by 8.8% and is now trading at $48.52.
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Kroger saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 15,660,000 shares, an increase of 11.7% from the February 13th total of 14,020,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,970,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 3.2 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, June 15th 2023.
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The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, March, 2nd. The company reported $0.99 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.90 by $0.09. The business had revenue of $34.82 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $34.89 billion. Kroger had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 31.84% and a net margin of 1.51%. Kroger's revenue was up 5.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.91 earnings per share.
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Kroger announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 9th. Investors of record on Monday, May 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.26 per share on Thursday, June 1st. This represents a $1.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.14%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, May 12th.
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Kroger (NYSE:KR) pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.20%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 16 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 33.88%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, KR will have a dividend payout ratio of 23.01% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Kroger split before market open on Tuesday, July 14th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, June 25th 2015. The newly issued shares were distributed 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 has authorized a share repurchase program on Thursday, December 30th 2021, which authorizes the company to repurchase $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to buy up to 3.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Kroger issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, March, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $4.45-$4.60 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $4.15. 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Berkshire Hathaway Inc (6.98%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.86%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.62%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.54%), LSV Asset Management (1.45%) and Morgan Stanley (1.39%). 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 $48.52.

Kroger (NYSE:KR) has a market capitalization of $34.73 billion and generates $148.26 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $2.24 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.07 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.