The Kroger Co. (KR) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of The Kroger Co. (KR): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About The Kroger Co.
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 food and drug stores offer natural food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers, fresh seafood, and organic produce; and its multi-department stores provide apparel, home fashion and furnishings, outdoor living, electronics, automotive products, and toys. The company's marketplace stores offer full-service grocery, pharmacy, health and beauty care, and perishable goods, as well as general merchandise, including apparel, home goods, and toys; and its price impact warehouse stores provide grocery, and health and beauty care items, as well as meat, dairy, baked goods, and fresh produce items. It also manufactures and processes food products for sale in its supermarkets and online; and sells fuel through its fuel centers. The company sells its products through its stores, fuel centers, and online platforms. The Kroger Co. was founded in 1883 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sector: Consumer Defensive · Industry: Grocery Stores · United States · 400,000 employees · thekrogerco.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, The Kroger Co. (KR) had a market capitalization of $35.90B, a trailing P/E of 34.3 (forward 10.6), a dividend yield of 2.46% and a beta of 0.41; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $54.15 – $76.58 (-14.0% over the year).
- Market cap
- $35.90B
- Enterprise value
- $68.05B
- Trailing P/E
- 34.3
- Forward P/E
- 10.6
- PEG ratio
- 0.56
- Price / book
- 6.33
- EPS (trailing)
- $1.71
- EPS (forward)
- $5.54
- Dividend yield
- 2.46%
- Payout ratio
- 80.1%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-08-14
- 52-week range
- $54.15 – $76.58
- 52-week change
- -14.0%
- Beta
- 0.41
- Average volume
- 7.5M
- Shares outstanding
- 612.6M
- Short % of float
- 4.54%
- Profit margin
- 0.7%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, The Kroger Co. (KR) last closed at $56.95 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 46 (neutral territory), price -0.9% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -0.5%, MACD histogram -0.04.
Sentiment inputs: 69% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 60% bullish; Reddit mentions +100% over 24 hours; analyst consensus score 61/100.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 3 buys and 1 sell of KR; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 0 sells (2 distinct filers, latest disclosure 2026-08-06). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: David J. Taylor (2B/0S), Julie Johnson (1B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
KR has been a daily pick 1 time; 1 of 1 graded picks beat SPY over the following five trading days. Most recent: 2026-08-18, rank #3, +3.95% versus SPY (beat). Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls The Kroger Co. (KR) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell KR.
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