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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Retail · CIK 0000056873
$67.87
+5.83% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 22, 2026
$41.58B market value
From KROGER CO's FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 31, 2026 · read the filing
KROGER runs grocery stores. It took in $147.64B last year, which makes it a very large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 1 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by debt, with profitability and growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Adcock Mary Ellen, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$4.4M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From KROGER CO's FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Operating income
$3.85B → $1.89B
Profit
$2.67B → $1.02B
Free cash flow
$1.78B → $3.46B
Earnings per share
$4.03 → $1.66
Measured against FY2025, from the 10-K filed Mar 31, 2026
Deteriorated: -50.9%
$3.85B to $1.89BCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -61.9%
$2.67B to $1.02BCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
KR rose 5.83% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Staples company tracked here moved +3.99%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.8 points above its sector and 6.9 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 2% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 8% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.02B last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 0.4%.
No. At its current cash flow it could clear its debt in about 1.7 years. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.13 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 87 cents of every dollar of profit, which leaves little room for the payment to survive a bad year. It paid out 12% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
MixedNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.02B and generated $7.31B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Mar 31, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202510-K · Apr 1, 2025Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Apr 2, 2024Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Mar 28, 2023Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Mar 29, 2022Filing for FY2022 | ChangeFY2026 vs FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $147.64B | $147.12B | $150.04B | $148.26B | $137.89B | +0.4% |
| Cost of revenue | $113.24B | $113.72B | $116.67B | $116.48B | $107.54B | −0.4% |
| Gross profit | $34.40B† | $33.40B† | $33.36B† | $31.78B† | $30.35B† | +3.0% |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 23.3% | 22.7% | 22.2% | 21.4% | 22.0% | +0.6 pts |
| Operating income | $1.89B | $3.85B | $3.10B | $4.13B | $3.48B | −50.9% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 1.3% | 2.6% | 2.1% | 2.8% | 2.5% | −1.3 pts |
| Interest expense | — | — | $441.0M | $535.0M | $571.0M | — |
| Income before tax | $1.20B | $3.34B | $2.84B | $2.90B | $2.05B | −64.1% |
| Net income | $1.02B | $2.67B | $2.16B | $2.24B | $1.66B | −61.9% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 0.7% | 1.8% | 1.4% | 1.5% | 1.2% | −1.1 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $1.66 | $4.03 | $3.00 | $3.13 | $2.29 | −58.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 1,677 shares at $58.74 ($98.5K)
Holds 17,982 shares after this filing.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 269 shares at $58.74 ($15.8K)
Holds 31,938 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingReported another event
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
Coverage from the last 30 days
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from KR's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-01-31, filed Mar 31, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 31, 2026 |
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 1, 2025 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Apr 2, 2024 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 28, 2023 |
| FY2022 | 7.3 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 29, 2022 |
| FY2021 | 7.3 | 9/9 | 10-K, filed Mar 30, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
7 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
1.81
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Improved: +94.5%
$1.78B to $3.46BCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -58.9%
$4.03 to $1.66Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -15.8%
$3.96B to $3.33BSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -7.3%
660.9M to 612.6MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Deteriorated: −1.3 pts
2.6% to 1.3%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.1 pts
1.8% to 0.7%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -8.2%
$15.80B to $14.51BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Sep 18, 2026 — read it.
Deteriorated: -65.7%
$4.88B to $1.68BCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -8.5%
662.0M to 606.0MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Improved: +12.5%
$863.0M to $971.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +5.3%
$609.0M to $641.0MNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +15.0%
$0.92 to $1.06Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: -9.2%
$15.33B to $13.91BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
5 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 0% and 4%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 33 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 33 analysts publishing on this company, 9 say strong buy, 11 say buy and 13 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 5.1% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 52.6x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Was granted or awarded shares — 12,769 shares
Holds 12,769 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 37,960 shares at $34.94 ($1.3M)
Holds 237,288 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 10,846 shares at $38.32 ($415.6K)
Holds 248,134 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 37,960 shares at $60.73 ($2.3M)
Holds 210,174 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 10,846 shares at $60.64 ($657.7K)
Holds 199,328 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 24,095 shares at $60.68 ($1.5M)
Holds 175,233 shares after this filing.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Cash -65.7% · Shares in issue -8.5% · Operating income +12.5% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Held a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report on Form 10-Q
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Operating margin −1.3 pts · Operating income -50.9% · Profit -61.9% — against FY2025
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin −7.0 pts · Operating income turned negative · Profit turned negative — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingRecorded a material impairment
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingRecorded a material impairment · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Earnings per share +42.7% · Long-term debt +51.0% · Cash +75.3% — against Q2 FY2024
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