KROGER CO
KROGER CO (KR) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
• Kroger runs the classic supermarket trade, razor-thin retail margins near 1% to 2%, but layers a higher-margin media, data, and pharmacy business on top that the 10-K credits with rising third-party media revenue, the part of the model that actually scales. • The defining number is the share count: management is buying back stock fast enough to shrink shares roughly 3% to 4% a year, and a fresh $2 billion authorization in June 2026 continues it, so per-share value can grow even when total prof
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1,342 institutional managers reported holding KR in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 79% of the company; the top 10 hold 46%. 153 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Berkshire Hathaway, among others. On the short side, 30.5M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
KR has cut its share count 12.2% over the past five years, spending $10.04B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 17 years straight; the current rate is $1.37 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.38B in dividends and $7.77B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at KR over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 27 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
KR's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-17 | +7.4% | +2.1% |
| 2022-12-10 | -3.3% | -3.6% |
| 2023-06-24 | +0.1% | +0.9% |
| 2023-09-16 | +3.1% | -8.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
KR's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-01 (items 8.01); 2026-06-26 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2026-06-18 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-27 (items 5.02); 2026-03-05 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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