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Kroger $KR

🫧 Edgar looked up Kroger Co. ($KR). Last filing: 10-Q, 2026-09-18. 10 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.

🔖 Exposure: revenue $147.6B (FY2026), total debt $15.9B. Experience: revenue up 0.4% on the year, up 1.7% a year over 4 years; operating margin 1.3%, down from 2.6%. Soundness: equity 11.9% of assets, return on equity 17.3%, payout 86.4% of profit, dividend per share up 12 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $116.8B and $167.6B next year (method v3, set from 1,471 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (10 filers, $50M+ revenue, retail-grocery stores): operating margin 1.3% against a 2.3% median; growth 0.4% against 4.4%.

Kroger Co. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 2.3%1.3%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 4.4%0.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 33.3%11.9%Return on equityPeer median 9.8%17.3%Payout of profit86.4%Gold tick: the median of 10–10 peers with $50M+ revenue in retail-grocery stores
Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit86.4% paid outHanded back per share$1.37up 12 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund2.3%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed0.4%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

The figures, as filed

Fiscal year end2026-01-31
Revenue$147.6B
Revenue, on the year0.4%
Revenue, a year over the record1.7%
Operating margin1.3%
Operating margin, prior year2.6%
Net margin0.7%
Research and developmentnot filed separately
Free cash flow
Cash$3.3B
Total debt$15.9B
Equity of assets11.9%
Return on equity17.3%
Payout of profit86.4%
Dividend per share$1.37 · up 12 years running
Audited years read5

Peers: the median of 10 filers with $50M+ revenue in retail-grocery stores.

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