Is it safe?
Can KR take a bad year?
Kroger carries $12.5B of net debt at 2.77× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$12.5B
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.77×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.08× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 2.68×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 27%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2025
- $15.9B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $3.33B
- Net debt
- $12.5B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $4.52B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.48B
- Debt / equity
- 2.68×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.51×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −46%
- Below its 52-week high
- −22%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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