KRKroger
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (BBB), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$6.2M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -46% · now 18% below its 52-week high.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can KR take a bad year?
Kroger carries $13.7B of net debt at 3.00× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.00×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.77× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 2.63×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 27%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $15.4B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.68B
- Net debt
- $13.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.56B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.54B
- Debt / equity
- 2.63×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.37×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −46%
- Below its 52-week high
- 18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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