KR — The Kroger Co.
Consumer Defensive · ETF XLP · as of 2026-09-18
Daily · EMA 10 / 20 / 50 · SMA 200 · VolPress: buy/sell split, 20-SMA, white dot = above avg · · E = earnings · RS vs SPY ⓘ · ● RS new high ⓘ
The Kroger Co.
NYQ
Consumer Defensive · Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail
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...
Price & today
$60.00
ATR(14) 1.52 (2.53%)
| Stock today | -1.23% |
| Sector ETF today | -0.83% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | -0.41% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLP | 0.76 |
| 60-day correlation with XLP | 0.63 |
| Status | normal |
Decoupling fires when 60d corr − 20d corr > 0.20: stock used to track its sector but the relationship has weakened recently.
Technicals
| 10 EMA | $59.69 |
| 20 EMA | $58.93 |
| 50 EMA | $58.83 |
| EMA stack | BULLISH |
| RSI(14) | 56.0 |
| 52-week high distance | -21.65% |
| 52-week low distance | +10.80% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 46.9 |
| Bull% | 12.2% |
| OVTLYR status | BUY (3d) |
| Sector rank | #106 |
| Next earnings | 2026-12-02 (TNS, 74d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
87.6
ADR%
2.4
RMV (tight)
0.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
0.7
Rel Vol
177.0%
U/D 50d
0.91
U/D 25d
1.27
Accum/Dist 25d
5 / 6
EPS YoY
+5.0%
LoD dist
1.0
Off 52w High
21.7%
Above 52w Low
10.8%
1W / 1M
+2.6 / +6.6
Avg $Vol 50d
397.1M
Mkt Cap (B)
36.8
Trend 8/8
no
Leads Group
YES
Sector XLP
-0.7% 1W
What do these abbreviations mean?
- RS Rating
- - IBD-style relative strength vs SPY (weighted 3/6/9/12-mo). 70+ = leaders pool, 80+ = strong.
- ADR%
- - average daily range over 20 days. 4%+ = the fast movers the playbook prefers (selection order, not a gate).
- RMV (tight)
- - Relative Measured Volatility, 15 bars, scaled 0-100. <15 = tight coiled base (green), <35 moderate, high = loose/expanding - not a base right now.
- Ext (ATR>20EMA)
- - how many ATRs price sits above its 20-EMA. ≤1 = in value (green), >2 = extended/chasing (red) - prefer a pullback.
- Rel Vol
- - latest volume vs the 50-day average. 100% = normal; 140%+ = breakout confirmation.
- U/D 50d / 25d
- - up-day vs down-day volume over the window. 1.1+ = net accumulation (institutions buying); under 0.9 on the 25d = net selling.
- Accum/Dist 25d
- - heavy-volume up days vs heavy-volume down days in the last 25 sessions (close moved 0.2%+ on above-average volume). The institutional-participation footprint; 5+ distribution days = O'Neil caution line.
- LoD dist
- - close distance above the day low in % of ATR (100 = one full ATR off the low). High = strong close.
- Off/Above 52w
- - trend-template legs: within 25% of the 52-week high, at least 25% above the 52-week low.
- Trend 8/8
- - all 8 Minervini Trend Template criteria pass. Discovery floor, NOT an entry signal - entries come from the VCP pivot.
- Base len (VCP)
- - weeks since the VCP base started on the latest scan. 10wk+ bases carry the edge; short stacked bases test below random.
Fundamentals & valuation - reference, not entry inputs
P/E (TTM)
35.1
Fwd P/E
10.8
PEG
0.6
Price/Book
6.1
Profit margin
0.7%
ROE
13.8%
Debt/Equity
373.4
Rev growth
+2.2%
Analyst target
$71 (+18%)
Analyst rating
BUY
Institutional %
82.2%
Insider %
8.5%
Float %
128.2%
Valuation and analyst figures are Yahoo company stats (weekly refresh, ~3,000 larger names - blanks are honest gaps); logo, employees, website and IPO date are Massive company reference. Momentum/VCP entries do not use valuation - this card is context so you do not have to leave the page.
Company data - context read, not entry inputs
Industry rank
40 / 147
Industry
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail
Float
785.4M
Float turnover 20d
0.9%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
414.6M / 397.1M
Days to cover
2.9
Short % float
4.8%
Institutional %
82.2%
Weinstein stage
4
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec-24 | 0.98 | +3% | 33,634.0 | -1% |
| Mar-25 | 1.14 | -15% | 34,308.0 | -7% |
| Jun-25 | 1.49 | +4% | 45,118.0 | +0% |
| Sep-25 | 1.04 | +12% | 33,940.0 | +0% |
| Dec-25 | 1.05 | +7% | 33,859.0 | +1% |
| Mar-26 | 1.28 | +12% | 34,725.0 | +1% |
| Jun-26 | 1.58 | +6% | - | - |
| Sep-26 | 1.09 | +5% | - | - |
† = SEC carries this same fiscal quarter under a second period-end with a materially different figure (hover for it) - a restatement, merger recast or successor-period split; %Chg is blanked when the two are more than 15% apart. It fires only when the two period-ends DISAGREE, so it is a floor, not a guarantee that the rest of the column shares one basis · ‡ = the revenue concept changed from the previous quarter WITH A FIGURE (hover for both) - a blank row in between is skipped, as the eye does - a step at that row is a change of basis, not necessarily of business · EPS = Yahoo
eps_actual (the figure MarketSmith/Deepvue show) - whether a given quarter is GAAP or excludes a one-off follows the filing, so it can sit either side of another vendor's number; AAPL's Oct-24 row, the Sep-2024 fiscal quarter, is $0.97 here - GAAP, including the EU tax charge - where TradingView's year implies $1.64 · Sales ($M) = SEC EDGAR quarterly revenue (fiscal Q4 derived as FY minus 9-mo) · quarter = report month · %Chg blank = prior-year base under $0.05 (not meaningful).Recent news - our DB (Finnhub + OVTLYR)
- Sep 03 − Greg Abel Bought $39.4 Billion of Stocks in 6 Months, Up From the $7.1 Billion Berkshire Purchased a Year Earlier Under Warren Buffett The Motley Fool
- Aug 18 + 3 Top Dividend Stocks That Are Trading Near Their 52-Week Lows The Motley Fool
- Aug 13 · You Can't Invest In Trader Joe's, But This Mexican Grocery Stock With the Same Business Model Might Be Even Better The Motley Fool
- Aug 09 · 3 Reasons to Buy and Hold This Dividend King (and 1 Reason Not To) The Motley Fool
- Aug 01 + 3 Magnificent Stocks to Buy That Are Near 52-Week Lows The Motley Fool