What Kroger Company (KR) Investors Need to Know

By Naomi Wentworth • Thursday, December 22 09:58 • Permanent Link

Is it worth buying Kroger Company stock at a price of $44.48? If this question is on your mind, make sure to check out the fundamentals of this Grocery Store large-cap company:

Kroger Company has logged a 2.9% 52 week change, compared to -17.9% for the S&P 500
KR has an average analyst rating of buy and is -17.55% away from its mean target price of $53.95 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (Eps) is $3.18, which brings its trailing Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio to 14.0. The Consumer Defensive sector's average P/E ratio is 24.21
The company's forward earnings per share (Eps) is $4.22 and its forward P/E ratio is 10.5
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.2 in contrast to the Consumer Defensive sector's average P/B ratio is 4.09
The current ratio is currently 0.7, which consists in its liquid assets divided by any liabilities due within in the next 12 months
KR has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -14.1% and gross profit margins of 0.2%
The company's free cash flow for the last fiscal year was $3,576,000,000.00 and the average free cash flow growth rate is 58.7%
Kroger Company's revenues have an average growth rate of 4.4% with operating expenses growing at 4.6%. The company's current operating margins stand at 2.5%

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