The Kroger Co.
66.77USD
-1.1000 (-1.62%)
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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.
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Reading the stored fundamentals…
Dated 52-week rows are the highest and lowest CLOSE and the day each happened, which sits a little inside the intraday range a vendor quotes. Quotes are refreshed once a night — during a session the price above is the previous close.
Is the price low against peers, cash flow and analyst targets?
Do analysts expect earnings and revenue to keep growing?
1 of 6 checks could not be assessed (there is no analyst coverage stored).
Has the business grown and earned good returns on its filed numbers?
1 of 6 checks could not be assessed (there is not enough stored history).
Can the balance sheet carry its debt?
1 of 6 checks could not be assessed (the stored data lacks the figures they need).
Is the dividend decent, covered and steady?
Only 3 of 6 checks could be assessed because there is not enough stored history; 4 are needed.
An axis marked n/a has no vertex: it is left out of the shape rather than drawn as zero.
Each axis asks six plain questions of the stored data. A check that passes counts one. A check the stored data cannot answer is left out of the count, never counted as a fail, and an axis needs four answerable checks to show a result. Axes are never added together: there is no overall score. The thresholds are conventional rules of thumb and are blunt across sectors, so each check is listed with its rule and the figure it used.
P/E below peers
Trailing P/E is positive and below the median of its peers: the companies in its industry if there are at least 5, else its sector if at least 10, else the whole market if at least 30, always in the same currency.
P/E 37.1 against a peer median of 23.2 (45 USD companies in the Consumer Defensive sector).
Did not pass
PEG ratio
The PEG ratio is positive and at most 1.5.
PEG 0.65.
Passed
EV/EBITDA below peers
EV/EBITDA is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E. Not applied to financial companies.
EV/EBITDA 7.7 against a peer median of 12.1 (52 USD companies in the Consumer Defensive sector).
Passed
Price/book below peers
Price to book is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E.
Price/book 6.81 against a peer median of 3.11 (50 USD companies in the Consumer Defensive sector).
Did not pass
Statements: SEC filings, newest period 08/2026.
Peers: P/E against 45 USD companies in the Consumer Defensive sector; EV/EBITDA against 52 USD companies in the Consumer Defensive sector; price/book against 50 USD companies in the Consumer Defensive sector.
Rules of thumb applied to stored filings and quote data. Statements are as of the newest period shown above; multiples, analyst targets, estimates and yield come from a best-effort refresh and can lag by days. A count of plain checks, not a rating, a valuation or investment advice. Terms
Free cash flow yield
Free cash flow is at least 4.5% of market cap, the risk-free rate used across this site. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow yield 6.0% against a 4.5% risk-free rate.
Passed
Analyst target above price
The mean analyst target is at least 15% above the last close, from at least 3 analysts. A published consensus, not a fair value.
Mean analyst target above the last close by 3.3% (22 analysts).
Did not pass
Earnings growth, next year
Consensus EPS for next fiscal year is at least 10% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's EPS: consensus up 5.6% (23 analysts).
Did not pass
Earnings growth, this year
Consensus EPS for this fiscal year is at least 10% above last year's figure on the same street basis, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's EPS: consensus up 7.0% (23 analysts).
Did not pass
Revenue growth, next year
Consensus revenue for next fiscal year is at least 5% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's revenue: consensus up 1.6% (21 analysts).
Did not pass
Revenue growth, this year
Consensus revenue for this fiscal year is at least 5% above last year's reported revenue, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's revenue: consensus up 2.1% (21 analysts).
Did not pass
Estimates rising
More analysts raised than cut this year's EPS estimate over the last 90 days, with at least 2 revisions in all.
No analyst estimates are stored for this security.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, latest quarter
Revenue in the latest quarter is at least 8% above the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest-quarter revenue up 2.0% on a year earlier.
Did not pass
Earnings growth, multi-year
Net income grew at least 5% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures, positive at both ends).
Net income fell 17.0% a year, FY2021 to FY2026.
Did not pass
Earnings growth, last year
Net income over the latest twelve months is above the twelve months before it, and positive.
Two comparable twelve-month periods of net income are not stored.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, multi-year
Revenue grew at least 3% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures).
Revenue grew 2.2% a year, FY2021 to FY2026.
Did not pass
Return on equity
Return on equity is at least 15%: twelve-month net income over average equity. Not meaningful when equity is negative.
Return on equity 14.3%: twelve-month net income over the average equity.
Did not pass
Return on assets
Return on assets is at least 5%: twelve-month net income over average assets. Not applied to financial companies.
Return on assets 2.1%: twelve-month net income over the average assets.
Did not pass
Cash earnings
Operating cash flow over the latest twelve months is positive and at least net income. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow was at or above net income over the last twelve months.
Passed
Current ratio
Current assets are at least 1.0x current liabilities. Not applied to financial companies.
Current ratio 0.7x.
Did not pass
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities
Current assets are at least the liabilities that fall due after a year (total liabilities less current liabilities). Not applied to financial companies.
Current assets are 0.5x the liabilities due after a year.
Did not pass
Debt to equity
Total debt is at most 100% of equity; no debt passes, negative equity with debt does not. Not applied to financial companies.
Total debt is 263% of equity.
Did not pass
Net debt to EBITDA
Net debt (total debt less cash) is at most 3.0x EBITDA; a net cash position passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Net debt is 2.6x EBITDA.
Passed
Interest cover
Operating income covers interest expense at least 3.0x; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
No interest expense is stored.
Not assessed
Cash flow to debt
Operating cash flow is at least 20% of total debt; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow is 43.7% of total debt.
Passed
Dividend yield
The dividend yield is at least 2%.
Dividend yield 2.34%.
Passed
Payout ratio
Dividends paid are at most 75% of net income. Not applied to real estate companies, whose net income is after depreciation.
Dividends paid were 82% of net income.
Did not pass
Free cash flow cover
Free cash flow covers the dividends paid at least 1.0x. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow covers dividends 2.7x.
Passed
Paid every year
A dividend was paid in every one of the last 4 to 8 fiscal years stored (consecutive years, all present). A year missing from the filings data is not read as no dividend, so a gap makes this not assessed.
1 consecutive fiscal years are stored; 4 are needed.
Not assessed
No cuts
Total dividends paid never fell by more than 20% from one fiscal year to the next in that window.
1 consecutive fiscal years are stored; 4 are needed.
Not assessed
Growing dividend
Total dividends paid grew at least 3% a year across that window. The total, not per share: no per-share dividend history is stored.
1 consecutive fiscal years are stored; 4 are needed.
Not assessed