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The Kroger Co.Evidence as of 2026-10-10The desk's Snapshot
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Overview · 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.
−0.3 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 (‑0.3 of a possible +2; confidence high). Revenue rose from $ 33,859,000,000 in the single fiscal quarter Q3 2025 (fiscal quarter ended 2025-12-09) to $ 34,621,000,000 in the single fiscal quarter Q2 2026 (fiscal quarter ended 2026-09-15), an increase of $ 762,000,000 (≈ 2.25%). The company swung from an operating loss of $ (1,541,000,000) in Q3 2025 to operating income of $ 971,000,000 in Q2 2026, and net income moved from $ (1,320,000,000) to $ 641,000,000 over the same quarter-to-quarter comparison, with diluted EPS shifting from $ (2.02) to $ 1.05.
Shares outstanding declined from 632,849,160 (reported 2025-12-09) to 590,588,700 (reported 2026-09-15). Cash and cash equivalents fell from $ 3,956,000,000 (2025-11-08) to $ 1,676,000,000 (2026-08-15), while long-term debt modestly declined to $ 15,315,000,000 as of 2026-08-15. Market context shows market price $ 61.64, market capitalization $ 36,403,887,468, trailing twelve‑month P/E 79.03, enterprise value $ 50,094,887,468, and trailing EV/EBITDA of 12.0 with EBITDA $ 4,175,000,000.
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.
Revenue for the single fiscal quarter Q3 2025 (2025-08-17 to 2025-11-08) was $33,859,000,000 and for the single fiscal quarter Q2 2026 (2026-05-24 to 2026-08-15) was $34,621,000,000, an increase of $762,000,000 (≈2.25%) between those two reported quarters.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001104659-25-120642Operating income moved from an operating loss of $(1,541,000,000) in the single fiscal quarter Q3 2025 (2025-08-17 to 2025-11-08) to operating income of $971,000,000 in the single fiscal quarter Q2 2026 (2026-05-24 to 2026-08-15).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001104659-25-120642Reads 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.
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.
The Form 10-K filed 2026-03-31 adds and materially rewords multiple risk-factor items that call out AI-related risks (including the emergence of AI-powered agentic shopping tools and the need to invest in AI capabilities and comply with evolving AI regulation), cybersecurity and data governance failures, payments and third-party processor risk, and labor/wage pressures.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0001104659-26-037723 vs 0001558370-25-004267The risk-factor language in the Form 10-K filed 2026-03-31 specifically warns that AI agentic shopping tools could 'disintermediate' the retailer-customer relationship, reducing visibility into customer behavior and increasing margin pressure.
Item 1A risk-factor diff · 0001104659-26-037723 vs 0001558370-25-004267Reads 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 over the most recent 3 months is +3.9%.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-10-09weakened in debateMomentum over the most recent 6 months is -8.9%, which ranks at the 25th percentile of the 881-stock research universe.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-10-09weakened in debateReads 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.
13F-reported institutional holdings total $28.62B as of 2026-06-30; reported value changed -23.0% quarter-over-quarter, holder_count was 1,319 with a net -75 holder_count_delta_qoq and 200 exited_positions in that filing period.
13F holdings · 1319 filers · as of 2026-06-30Top reported institutional holders in the 13F as of 2026-06-30 included BlackRock, Inc. ($3.02B), Berkshire Hathaway Inc ($2.17B), VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC ($1.97B), VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC ($1.72B), and STATE STREET CORP ($1.62B), each showing quarter-over-quarter value declines (for example, BlackRock value_qoq_pct -21.5 and Berkshire -40.1).
13F holdings · 1319 filers · as of 2026-06-30Reads 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 finance.yahoo.com headline on 2026-10-09 framed Kroger as potentially "pricey" after a five-year, 75% gain and noted the stock was down year-to-date against a US$61.41 share price.
News · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-10-09A thelincolnianonline.com item on 2026-10-09 reported that Inspirion Wealth Advisors LLC sold 9,946 Kroger shares in the third quarter, reducing its position by 33.8% to 19,456 shares.
News · thelincolnianonline.com · 2026-10-09Reads 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.
Executive Vice President Mary Ellen Adcock reported multiple open-market sales on 18 September 2026 totaling $4,376,000 across 48,806 shares (individual reported sales: $2,300,000 for 37,960 shares; $658,000 for 10,846 shares; and $1,500,000 for 24,095 shares as shown in the filing).
Form 4 · Adcock Mary Ellen (Executive Vice President) · $1.3M code M · 2026-09-18Executive Vice President Yael Cosset reported a sale of 30,000 shares for $1.8M on 14 July 2026.
Form 4 · COSSET YAEL (Executive Vice President) · $1.8M sold · 2026-07-14Reads 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.
Market price 61.64 and diluted share count 590,588,700 produce the reported market capitalization of 36,403,887,468.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeTrailing twelve‑month price/earnings ratio is 79.03 while trailing twelve‑month EPS is 0.78.
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.
The strongest, high-quality filings show a clear operational inflection: sequentially higher revenue (fundamentals-0) accompanied by a switch from an operating loss to positive operating income (fundamentals-1) and a quarter-to-quarter net income swing from loss to profit with corresponding EPS recovery (fundamentals-2). These performance improvements sit alongside a meaningful decline in reported shares outstanding (fundamentals-3) and modest reduction in long-term debt (fundamentals-4), which together strengthen per-share economics and balance-sheet flexibility; the ETF memberships and recent analyst buy-side activity add institutional distribution and coverage breadth (ownership-2 and the street consensus). Several negative observations (insider sales, falling cash, elevated trailing P/E, and older 13F snapshots) are present, but their evidentiary weight is weaker or context-dependent: cash has declined (fundamentals-5) even as debt was reduced, insiders show mixed small buys and awards (insider-2/3) amid some sales, and high trailing P/E (valuation-1) reflects prior-period earnings volatility rather than current-quarter profitability. Overall, the filings-based operational turnaround and share-count reduction are the most directly sourced, high-strength items supporting a favorable read, while some market and ownership negatives rely on lagged or context-sensitive signals.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.36
39 surviving claims rest on 16 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 20% of them, and 96% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The read rests on a moderate number of distinct sources but a relatively large bundle of surviving claims, so individual source errors could sway multiple claims. One analyst contributes a meaningful share of claims and the very high survival rate from debate suggests the desk applied conservative vetting, but the evidence is still moderately fragile to new filings or market moves that would update primary inputs.
Peer context · computed, not argued
12-1 momentum ranks 1st of 2 in Grocery Stores (as of 2026-10-09).
90-day volatility ranks 2nd of 2 in Grocery Stores (as of 2026-10-09).
dividend yield ranks 1st of 2 in Grocery Stores (as of 2026-10-09).
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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9 filings· 2 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+1.0 to the score
13 documents· 1 cited
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.3 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−0.1 to the score
3 holdings records· 1 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis−0.2 to the score
3 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
16 filings· 2 cited
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state, with stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−0.6 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
Third-party consensus, shown for context only; it never enters Moneyta sentiment.
Read means we pulled and handed it to an analyst; cited means a claim on this page points at it. Reading twelve quarters to state one trend is normal; the gap is shown rather than hidden.
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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