Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price up by 2.63% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $66.03.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $64.34, falling within a range of $64.65 and $66.225. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.502 whereas the PE ratio was 17.98 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $68.51, and the low was $49.04. On the whole, KR has fluctuated by 0.86% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Kroger Co currently standing at about $47.78 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Mar-05. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.25, with its dividend yield at 1.89%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 149.63B, with a low estimate of 44.67B and a high estimate of 46.07B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 45.32B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that KR’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 2.33, with the price of KR currently trading nearly 1.43% and 3.78% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 54.87, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.90% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.55%. Furthermore, Kroger Co (KR)’s beta value is 0.63, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.52.
A comparison of Kroger Co (KR) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. KR showed an intraday change of 2.63% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 16.76%%.
Data on historical trading for Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.17 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 5.99 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 723.61 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.83% of Kroger Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 82.41% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 37.94 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 5.3. According to the data, the short interest in Kroger Co (KR) stood at 665.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 39.85 million. The stock has risen by 7.98% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the KR stock heading into the next quarter.
