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The Kroger Co.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · The Kroger Co.
The Kroger Co. operates as a food and drug retailer in the United States. The company operates combination food and drug stores, multi-department stores, marketplace stores, and price impact warehouses. Its combination food and drug stores offer natural food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers, fresh seafood, and organic produce; and multi-department stores provide apparel, home fashion…
Management team
- Mr. Timothy A. Massa · Senior VP & Chief People OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Stuart W. Aitken · Senior VP and Chief Merchandising & Marketing OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Yael Cosset · Senior VP of Alternative Business & Chief Information OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. William Rodney McMullen · Chairman of the Board & CEOFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
Where the published evidence leans after the desk debated it — not a rating or a recommendation.
−0.1 on a −2 to +2 scale.
What builds the score
Solid bars are analyst rubric scores; faded bars are computed directly from data. Claims dropped in debate count for nothing; weakened claims count at half weight.
Editor's note
Written after the debate settled — the rest of the page is the evidence behind it.
The evidence balance is Mixed ( -0.1 of a possible +2 ) with high confidence. Share count has declined materially from 723,606,130 as of 2024-12-10 to 612,647,282 as of 2026-06-24, and long-term debt fell from 20,578,000,000 as of 2024-11-09 to about 15,378,000,000 as of 2026-05-23 while cash and cash equivalents fell from 13,358,000,000 as of 2024-11-09 to 2,873,000,000 as of 2026-05-23.
Reported revenue by quarter has been roughly stable in the mid- $ 33 billion range (for the three months ended 2024-11-09: 33,634,000,000; 2024-08-17: 33,912,000,000; 2025-08-16: 33,940,000,000; 2025-11-08: 33,859,000,000). Operating income and net income show material volatility across quarters, including an operating loss of -1,541,000,000 and net loss of -1,320,000,000 for the three months ended 2025-11-08. Market signals are mixed-to-weak: negative momentum across 3-, 6- and 12-month horizons ( -5.9%, -15.1%, -15.2% ), elevated volatility (30‑day +25.0%, 90‑day +30.9%, vol at the 93rd percentile), a negative beta to SPY ( -0.65 ) and a trailing twelve‑month P/E of 156.59 with EV/EBITDA of 11.9.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
Mercer, Oakes, Nash, Ellis, Yates, Talbot and Archer. The desk: named AI agents, not people. Each reads one slice of the evidence and nothing else — no outside knowledge, no browsing — so every finding traces to a source you can open.
Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Entity common shares outstanding fell from 723,606,130 as of 2024-12-10 to 662,678,212 as of 2025-09-16 and to 612,647,282 as of 2026-06-24.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001558370-24-016233Reported revenue by quarter has been roughly stable in the mid-$33 billion range: 33,634,000,000 for the 3 months ended 2024-11-09, 33,912,000,000 for the 3 months ended 2024-08-17, 33,940,000,000 for the 3 months ended 2025-08-16, and 33,859,000,000 for the 3 months ended 2025-11-08.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001558370-24-016233Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Nothing in this slice of the evidence rose to a claim — a quiet read, which itself is information.
Which filings the desk reads
The desk reads the annual 10-K in full — its risk factors, and how they changed since last year. Quarterly 10-Qs and event filings (8-Ks, insider Form 4s) are listed for context but not read line by line: the 10-K is where the material risk disclosures live. A brand-new company, or one we have only just begun tracking, may have no annual report on file yet — its risk analysis fills in once that lands.
Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Momentum is negative across horizons: 3-month momentum -5.9%, 6-month -15.1%, and 12-1 momentum -15.2%, with the 6-month momentum ranking in the 13th percentile of the 547-stock research universe and the 12-1 momentum in the 19th percentile.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Volatility is elevated: 30-day annualized vol +25.0% and 90-day annualized vol +30.9%, with vol versus its own history at the 93th percentile of the 547-stock universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
Institutional 13F-reported holdings in the company totaled "$37.17B" as of the quarter ended 2026-03-31.
13F holdings · 1379 filers · as of 2026-03-31BlackRock, Inc. held "$3.84B" of the company in the 13F report and that holding value rose 13.4% quarter-over-quarter in the reported period ended 2026-03-31.
13F holdings · 1379 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A September 1, 2026 piece says Kroger announced that customers can receive groceries and eligible prescriptions in a single Instacart-powered delivery order across nearly all Kroger banners, connecting more than 2,200 pharmacy locations to its websites and apps.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-01weakened in debateA September 2, 2026 headline frames the Instacart partnership as expanding Kroger’s digital reach and labels the move as a meaningful step for Kroger’s e-commerce capabilities.
News · simplywall.st · 2026-09-02weakened in debateReads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
The filing dated 2026-03-13 for Ronald Sargent (Chairman of the Board) shows a transaction with value "$2.0M" for "26567" shares, reported with action code "code F".
Form 4 · SARGENT RONALD (Chairman of the Board) · $2.0M code F · 2026-03-13The filing dated 2026-03-13 for David John Christopher Kennerley (Executive Vice President & CFO) shows a transaction with value "$585k" for "7743" shares, reported with action code "code F".
Form 4 · Kennerley David John Christopher (Executive Vice President & CFO) · $585k code F · 2026-03-13Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The market price used in this evidence was $57.94 on 2026-09-01.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeReported cash (CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue) is $2,873,000,000 as of 2026-05-23 and reported long‑term debt is $15,378,000,000 as of 2026-05-23.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
A bull and a bear contest the claims and the chair rules on each; the risk review stress-tests what survived.
A bull and a bear argue the analysts' claims across two rounds, then a chair rules on each one. Only what survives feeds the score — the argument is shown, not hidden, so you can judge the reasoning yourself.
Several company-specific data points point to a favorable read: outstanding shares fell materially from ~723.6M to ~612.6M over the provided period (direct evidence of capital return or share reduction), reported long-term debt declined by several billion, and trailing twelve‑month EBITDA and operating income remain positive on a TTM basis. Institutional ownership data show meaningful, recent accumulation by large holders (BlackRock, Berkshire) and broad inclusion in major passive ETFs, which is consistent with durable investor demand. Revenue has been stable in the mid‑$33B range across reported quarters, and recent company-specific news documents an e-commerce/Instacart integration that expands pharmacy delivery coverage — the cited items are company-focused. Counterpoints (negative short‑term momentum, elevated volatility, a single quarter operating loss, and falling cash balances) are present in the evidence; however, those items are market/timing signals or single‑quarter outcomes, while the strongest items (share count decline, debt reduction, institutional accumulation, stable revenue, TTM EBITDA) are directly sourced and relatively strong.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.38
29 surviving claims rest on 11 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 21% of them, and 97% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The evidence base is moderately robust: 29 surviving claims draw from 11 distinct sources, which gives some breadth, but a single analyst/account carries a noticeable share of the claims so a portion of the read depends on that individual’s framing. The very high survival rate from debate indicates few successful challenges to these assertions, so the desk can treat these claims as stable observations while still weighting them by the source and analyst concentration risks.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
Outside consensus, and where this name already sits in your own portfolio.
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What this was built from
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15 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.8 to the score
2 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+1.0 to the score
2 headlines
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
14 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.4 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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Written by AI, checked against sources
The analysts, the bull–bear debate and the editor's note are AI agents reading only the evidence listed on this page. They can misread a filing or a headline, which is why every claim cites a source you can open and check yourself. The sentiment score is arithmetic over the claims that survived the debate, not a language model's opinion.
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