KR

The Kroger Co. ·NYSE·Consumer Staples
56.08 live · 2026-08-12 15:59

Some scores are at the bottom of their range

This score sits at the bottom of the 0–100 range. The underlying calculation was negative, so the displayed value is a floor, not a measurement of zero.

  • Tactical Score: displayed 0, underlying value -62.4
3.3%
Brown Bear Score
19.6%
Business Conviction Score
17.0%
Position Health Score
19.2%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -23.8% · range 55.53–75.60

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 6.9%
OCF / assets 14.6%
FCF / revenue 5.0%
Gross margin 24.0%
ROIC 5.8%
Forward P/E 10.1

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +249.7pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-09-09 · consensus EPS 1.09

Q3 20 revenue: 30.49bnQ3 20 net income: 819.00mQ3 20 EPS: 1.04Q4 20 revenue: 29.72bnQ4 20 net income: 631.00mQ4 20 EPS: 0.81Q4 20Q3 21 revenue: 31.68bnQ3 21 net income: 467.00mQ3 21 EPS: 0.62Q4 21 revenue: 31.86bnQ4 21 net income: 483.00mQ4 21 EPS: 0.64Q4 21Q3 22 revenue: 34.64bnQ3 22 net income: 731.00mQ3 22 EPS: 1.01Q4 22 revenue: 34.20bnQ4 22 net income: 398.00mQ4 22 EPS: 0.55Q4 22Q3 23 revenue: 33.85bnQ3 23 net income: -180.00mQ3 23 EPS: -0.25Q4 23 revenue: 33.96bnQ4 23 net income: 646.00mQ4 23 EPS: 0.89Q4 23Q3 24 revenue: 33.91bnQ3 24 net income: 466.00mQ3 24 EPS: 0.64Q4 24 revenue: 33.63bnQ4 24 net income: 618.00mQ4 24 EPS: 0.85Q4 24Q3 25 revenue: 33.94bnQ3 25 net income: 609.00mQ3 25 EPS: 0.92Q4 25 revenue: 33.86bnQ4 25 net income: -1.32bnQ4 25 EPS: -2.02Q4 25

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (-2.02–1.04, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q4 25. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The baseline is zero — bars below it are losses. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2025-11-08 33.86bn +0.7% -1.32bn -2.02 2025-12-12
2025-08-16 33.94bn +0.1% 609.00m 0.92 2025-09-19
2024-11-09 33.63bn -1.0% 618.00m 0.85 2024-12-13
2024-08-17 33.91bn +0.2% 466.00m 0.64 2024-09-20

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.6%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 4 up, 4 down over 8 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +9.3% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-09-16: price -0.9%Q4 22 revenue +7.3% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2022-12-09: price -1.6%Q4 22Q3 23 revenue -2.3% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-09-15: price +1.6%Q4 23 revenue -0.7% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2023-12-08: price +0.6%Q4 23Q3 24 revenue +0.2% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-09-20: price +2.4%Q4 24 revenue -1.0% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2024-12-13: price -2.0%Q4 24Q3 25 revenue +0.1% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-09-19: price -2.2%Q4 25 revenue +0.7% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2025-12-12: price +0.7%Q4 25

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2025-11-08 2025-12-12 +0.7% +0.7% -2.0%
2025-08-16 2025-09-19 +0.1% -2.2% +6.5%
2024-11-09 2024-12-13 -1.0% -2.0% -3.3%
2024-08-17 2024-09-20 +0.2% +2.4% -2.1%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 655.0M as at 2026-01-31
Change over 1 year -10.0%
Change over 3 years -13.1%
Public float $46.10bn as at 2025-08-16 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 55.22 — 56.62
Protective stop 52.49 (Atr, 6.1% risk)
Support 56.00 (3 touches, 0.1% away)
Resistance 59.18 (5.6% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the floor than the ceiling: about 0.1% above 56.00, a price buyers have stepped in at before, and 5.6% below 59.18, where sellers have turned up before. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 6.1% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 8/22/45 (86% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness15% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanNot clear of price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 58.32 to 59.59. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days -4.6%
63 days -13.2%
126 days -17.6%
252 days -24.6%
Below 252d high25.8%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionDeeply oversold
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway Extreme downside deviation from Kalman fair trend; requires repair confirmation.

Volatility

State In a squeeze
Current band width7.6% of price
Recent tightest7.1% (2 sessions ago, narrower than 95.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.06×
Band 55.42 — 59.77

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 8% wide, and it recently went unusually quiet — calmer than it has been 95% of the time. When a stock goes quiet like this, its next move tends to look big by comparison. But quiet says nothing about which way it will go: Brown Bear tested calm-before-a-move as a reason to buy, and it did not work.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 55.53–60.542026-06-262026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger MACD bullish crossover repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; oversold context may support repair · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; oversold context may support repair · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 EMA20 reclaim +2.6% gap is improving; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; oversold context may support repair · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; oversold context may support repair · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 MACD histogram above zero 0.08 gap is deteriorating; Kalman divergence weakens pathway; oversold context may support repair · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

KR: no binary-event flag. Near IV 27%, far IV 32% (ratio 0.84), implied move 3.4%.

Implied volatility 27% near (9d) · 32% far (65d)
Term structure 0.84× near/far
Historical volatility 28%
Implied vs historical 0.98×
Implied move ±3.4% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.46×
Skew Call Skew (0.89×)
Call wall 58.00 (+3.5% away)
Put wall 55.00 (-1.9% away)
Gamma pin 58.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.4% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 34.9/100; Negative Rotation.

Rotation health 34.9
Rotation strength 69.2
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Weakening 105.6 92.2
Stock vs SPY Lagging 93.0 85.4
Sector vs SPY Lagging 84.3 87.1

Direction of travel: North-West / early recovery

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+5.0)
  • Altman Z-score 2.90 (+2.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 24.0% (+0.4)
  • ROIC quality: 5.8% (+0.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 5.0% (+1.5)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.126) (+3.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.06 -> -0.13) (+2.0)
  • Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.11 (+8.0)
  • Track 2: bullish DI spread 0.0 (+3.0)
  • Track 2: RSI trend quality 51.5, 5-day change +9.8 (+7.9)
  • Track 2: Bollinger position 0.15 (+1.2)

Negative signals

  • Track 2: weak MACD line/signal structure (-15.0)
  • Track 2: negative MACD regime (-8.0)
  • Track 2: MACD slope deteriorating (-5.0)
  • Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.86x average)
  • Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
  • Track 2: weak/falling ADX (8.1, flat)
  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.09)
  • Track 2: price below EMA20 by 2.5%
  • Track 2: EMA20 slope deteriorating -1.1%
  • Track 2: weak VPT confirmation (-0.05)
  • Track 2: price below EMA50 by 5.6%
  • Track 2: EMA50 slope deteriorating -1.9%
  • ROIC improving by -4.6 pts (+-2.0)
  • Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 17.1/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.