---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-073155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KR"
cik: "0000056873"
company_name: "KROGER CO"
filed_at: "2024-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T03:45:16.925386+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kroger Q1 EPS $1.29 ($1.43 adjusted); identical sales +0.5%; reaffirms FY2024 guidance

## Summary
- Identical sales without fuel +0.5%; total sales $45.3B, up 0.6% ex-fuel.
- Operating profit $1,294M; GAAP EPS $1.29; adjusted EPS $1.43 (vs $1.51 prior year).
- Adjusted FIFO operating profit $1,499M; FIFO gross margin rate -7 bps on price investments.
- Digital sales >8% growth; delivery +17%; increased digitally engaged households 9%.
- FY2024 guidance reaffirmed: adj. EPS $4.30-$4.50, adj. FIFO OP $4.6-$4.8B, identical sales 0.25%-1.75%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-073155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KR
- cik: 0000056873
- company_name: KROGER CO
- filed_at: 2024-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56873/000110465924073155/0001104659-24-073155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56873/000110465924073155/tm2417488d1_8k.htm

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