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Revenue: is the business selling more than it used to?

$147.6B−0% YoYFY 2025

→Revenue reached $147.6B in 2025, compounding -0% a year since 2022 though the pace has cooled.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Net income: how much of that revenue becomes profit?

$1.0B−55% YoYFY 2025

→Net income was $1.0B in 2025, compounding -23% a year over three years. Trailing twelve-month profit stands at $1.1B.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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How fast is it growing, year by year?

-0.4%revenue growth, FY 2025

→Revenue grew -0% in 2025 against a five-year average of +6%. Earnings fell +55% on top of it. 2010's +1494% earnings rebound off a collapsed base sits off the axis.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Revenue per share: is your slice growing as fast as the company?

$225.41revenue per share, FY 2025

→Revenue per share reached $225.41 in 2025, compounding +3% a year against -0% for KR as a whole. Buybacks added roughly 3.5 points to your per-share result. Free cash flow per share stands at $5.28.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Free cash flow: what is left in real cash after everything?

$3.5B+143% YoYFY 2025

→Free cash flow was $3.5B in 2025, compounding +35% a year since 2022. The trailing twelve months stand at $2.8B.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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How much of every sales dollar ends up as free cash?

→2 cents of every sales dollar became free cash in 2025, and it has held steady since 2022.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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What does staying competitive cost, per dollar of sales?

→The biggest claim on each sales dollar is capital spending, at 3% of revenue (stock compensation 0%). That share has risen since 2022, so the cost of competing is climbing.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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When sales grow, do profits grow faster?

→Operating profit outgrew revenue in only 2 of the last 5 years. Costs are growing roughly in step with the business, so scale isn't yet paying for itself.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Margins: of every $1 of sales, how much survives each cost layer?

→Operating margin has held near 1% since 2022. After everything, 1 cents of each sales dollar reaches net profit. KR doesn't tag a gross-profit line in its filings, so the chart starts at operating margin.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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What does it earn on the money it uses?

→ROE of 16% sits well above ROCE of 6%. A meaningful share of the shareholder return is manufactured with leverage rather than operations.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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What has the market paid for KR over time?

36.4xP/E today

→At 36.4x earnings, the market is paying +146% more than KR's own 6-year median of 14.8x. Expectations are elevated, so more has to go right to justify the price.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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What cash return does the business throw off per dollar of market value?

7.9%FCF yield today

→Every dollar of market value currently buys 7.9% of annual free cash flow, right at KR's 6-year median of 8.1%.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Could it handle its debt if things went wrong?

→Debt of $15.4B sits against $2.9B of cash, or 2.4x shareholders' equity. Earnings cover interest 4.9 times - adequate, with less room than it looks in a downturn.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Is the company's own capital growing?

→The company's own capital shrank from $11.6B in 2023 to $6.5B (-44%). Buybacks or losses are drawing the buffer down - the distinction matters.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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How much goes back, and how much leaks out as stock comp?

→Shareholders received $2.7B in buybacks and $885M in dividends in 2025. Stock compensation issued $157M of new shares in the same year, offsetting 4% of that.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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How fast is your ownership being diluted - or concentrated?

→The share count shrank 9.9% in 2025, averaging 5.6% a year over three years. Buybacks are concentrating your ownership: the same business, split fewer ways.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Is the dividend cheque growing?

→The dividend per share reached $1.35 in 2025, compounding +15% a year since 2020.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Can it afford the dividend?

→The dividend consumed 87% of profit and 26% of free cash flow in 2025. That is a thin cushion: a bad year would put the payment under real pressure.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Does KR earn more on its capital than that capital costs?

→KR earns 5.9% on the capital it employs, below the 10% most investors treat as the cost of capital. It was 12.7% in 2022, so the trend is down, though the pace has cooled. That is the lowest in KR's filed history.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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KR has issued or retired shares - did shareholders end up better off?

→KR has shrunk its share count -50% from 2008 to 2025, so each remaining share owns more of the business. Revenue per share is +290% over the same years.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23

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Are the people running it buying or selling?

→Insiders sold $2M on the open market and bought nothing. Many sales are pre-scheduled diversification rather than a view on the price. A further 59 filings were grants, option exercises or tax withholding, which say nothing either way.

Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-05-23