With 9.23 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 7.27 million shares. During the session, the Grocery Stores company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $72.19 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $71.07. The 52-week range on KR shows that it touched its highest point at $73.63 and its lowest point at $49.04 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $67.68. With its current market cap of 47.15 billion, KR has annualized dividend of $1.25 while the current yield stands at 1.75%. KR paid its most recent dividend on 1739491200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1747267200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.59.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of KR was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 3.39%, but this was up by 10.90% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 21.82% while six-month performance rose 26.64%. The stock gained 25.33% in the past year, while it has gained 16.68% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for KR yields 3.68 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.13. For the next quarter, that number is 1.45. This implies an EPS growth rate of 5.79% for this year and 8.52% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 7.38% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 12.51%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 660.00 million KR shares are outstanding with a float of 655.41 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 34.89 million, which was 528.00003 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Ronald L. Sargent M.B.A. as the firm’s Chairman of the Board & Interim CEO, Mr. Timothy A. Massa serves as its Executive VP & Chief People Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.85093004 of KR’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2021-05-22, KR reported revenue of $34308000000.0 and operating income of $912000000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $1813000000.0 and diluted EPS was $nan.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for KR since 29 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 22 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 7 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With KR analysts setting a high price target of 76.0 and a low target of 57.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 67.73182. Based on these targets, KR could surge 6.52% to reach the target high and fall by -20.11% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a decline of -5.07% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.5983 being high and $4.52832 being low. For KR, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.55831. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.16 and the low estimate is $0.92. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.0.
