Kroger is a retailer. Co. also manufactures and processes food for sale by its supermarkets and online. The combo store is the primary food store format. The stores provide the specialty departments that customers desire for one-stop shopping, including natural food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers and perishables such as fresh seafood and organic produce. In addition to the departments provided at a typical combo store, multi-department stores sell a selection of general merchandise items such as apparel, home fashion and furnishings, outdoor living, electronics, automotive products and toys. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our KR shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute KR market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing KR market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing KR's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of KR versus a peer is one thing; comparing
KR market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like KR can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching KR by allowing them to research the KR market cap history. |
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