The Kroger Co. (KR)

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The Kroger Co.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2024-12-13) (its current reports).

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The Kroger Co.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $115 billion in fiscal 2017 to $148 billion in fiscal 2026, up 2.8% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 2% from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-31, The Kroger Co.'s diluted share count shrank about 3.4% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 48% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-31, The Kroger Co. earned about 17 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 88 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 9.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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The Kroger Co.'s standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $148 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 5% by size; a net margin of 0.7% ranks in the bottom 41%; revenue growth of -0.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 14% (its annual reports).

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The Kroger Co.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Foran, Gregory S (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-02-19, 9 months (bottom 8% of its family); the 26 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (top 36%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 26 people in charge now (top 45%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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The Kroger Co.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $3.3 billion against debt of $16 billion leaves -25.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 14% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 2.3% of revenue (top 23%) (its annual report).

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The Kroger Co.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -0.1% a year over the last three filed years against 2.8% over all 10, slowing (bottom 23% of its family); the newest year grew 0.4% (bottom 14%); capital spending grew 7.8% a year (top 50%) (its annual reports). The Kroger Co. reported 5 product lines in fiscal 2026: Non Perishable at $78 billion (53%), Perishable at $37 billion (25%), Pharmacy at $18 billion (12%), and 2 more; 3 of 5 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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The Kroger Co.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $148 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 0.7% above the $147 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 45% of its family); net income of $1.0 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.4 billion (bottom 45%); a net margin of 0.7% against 1.6% before (bottom 45%) (its annual reports).