Kroger KR
equity
Price History
The shaded fan is where this price has historically travelled over the months after a close like today’s. It is not a forecast: it has no view on direction, only on distance.
Over 3 months from Sep 2026, roughly two-thirds of past moves landed between $54.21 and $66.4; nine in ten between $50.78 and $70.89.
Tested against this asset’s own history: across 486 past 3-month windows, the price actually landed inside the two-thirds band 67% of the time. The gap from 68% is the model’s error — real returns have fatter tails than the maths assumes, so the band gets breached more often than it claims.
Time underwater
How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.
Worst drawdown: −84%, peaking Sep 1988 and bottoming Dec 1988 — 105 months below the prior high before recovering.
DCA Backtest
- Invested
- $50,100
- Value today
- $472,358
- Return
- +842.8%
- Months invested
- 501
Scenarios
Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $91,370 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +417.0%.
Lump sum instead — $50,100 all at once in Jan 1985: $1,237,196 (+2369.5%) — lump sum came out ahead.
Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Mar 2026): $683.84 on $700 invested (-2.3%).
⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.
If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.
Every start month at once
Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.
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About Kroger
The Kroger Co. is an American retail corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It operates supermarkets and multi-department stores throughout the United States. (Wikipedia)
It's a listed company categorised under consumer staples and food retail, with a market cap of about $35.4B.
It rates High Risk at 3.0/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.
What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and leverage / financial (4.0/5).
Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.
Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.
Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.
Risk Profile
- Annualised volatility (3yr)2/520.3
- Max drawdown from ATH4/584.4
- Beta vs S&P 5001/50.47
- Avg daily $ volume1/5441.8m
- Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
- Debt / equity4/52.9
- Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
- 3yr EPS volatility5/558.0
- Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
- Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
- Board independence %not yet researched
- Share structurenot yet researched
- Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
- Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate
Linked Assets
Same sector, or return-correlated — worth knowing what else might move if this one does.
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