The Kroger Co (The Kroger Co) Operating Income : $3,127 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2024)

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What is The Kroger Co Operating Income?

The Kroger Co's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $1,200 Mil. Its Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 was $3,127 Mil.

Operating Margin % is calculated as Operating Income divided by its Revenue. The Kroger Co's Operating Income for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $1,200 Mil. The Kroger Co's Revenue for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was $37,064 Mil. Therefore, The Kroger Co's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 3.24%.

Good Sign:

The Kroger Co operating margin is expanding. Margin expansion is usually a good sign.

The Kroger Co's 5-Year average Growth Rate for Operating Margin % was 3.90% per year.

Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition. The Kroger Co's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 8.74%. The Kroger Co's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was 13.02%.

The Kroger Co Operating Income Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Kroger Co's Operating Income can be seen below:

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The Kroger Co Operating Income Chart

The Kroger Co Annual Data

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2,251.00

2,809.00

3,443.00

4,165.00

3,126.00

The Kroger Co Quarterly Data
	Apr19	Jul19	Oct19	Jan20	Apr20	Jul20	Oct20	Jan21	Apr21	Jul21	Oct21	Jan22	Apr22	Jul22	Oct22	Jan23	Apr23	Jul23	Oct23	Jan24
Operating Income	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															827.00	1,479.00	-471.00	919.00	1,200.00

The Kroger Co Operating Income Calculation

Operating Income, is the profit a company earned through operations. All expenses, including cash expenses such as cost of goods sold (COGS), research & development, wages, and non-cash expenses, such as depreciation, depletion and amortization, have been deducted from the sales.

Operating Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $3,127 Mil.

The Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) Operating Income Explanation

1. Operating Income or EBIT is linked to Return on Capital for both regular definition and Joel Greenblatt's definition.

The Kroger Co's annualized ROC % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as:

	ROC % (Q: Jan. 2024 )
=	NOPAT	/	Average Invested Capital
=	Operating Income * ( 1 - Tax Rate % )	/	( (Invested Capital (Q: Oct. 2023 )	+	Invested Capital (Q: Jan. 2024 ))	/ count )
=	4800 * ( 1 - 20.88% )	/	( (45041	+	41911)	/ 2 )
=	3797.76	/	43476
=	8.74 %

where

	Invested Capital		(Q: Oct. 2023 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	51021	-	9326	-	( 2922	-	max(0, 16785	-	13439	+	2922	))
=	45041

	Invested Capital		(Q: Jan. 2024 )
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	Excess Cash
=	Total Assets	-	Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	-	( Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	-	max(0, Total Current Liabilities	-	Total Current Assets	+	Cash, Cash Equivalents, Marketable Securities	))
=	50505	-	11704	-	( 3098	-	max(0, 16058	-	12948	+	3098	))
=	41911

Note: The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Jan. 2024) data.

2. Joel Greenblatt's definition of Return on Capital:

The Kroger Co's annualized ROC (Joel Greenblatt) % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as:

	ROC (Joel Greenblatt) %		(Q: Jan. 2024 )
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Net fixed Assets	+	Net Working Capital)
=	EBIT	/	Average of (Property, Plant and Equipment	+	Net Working Capital)
			Q: Oct. 2023		Q: Jan. 2024
=	EBIT	/	( ( (Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital)	+	(Property, Plant and Equipment + Net Working Capital) )	/	count )
=	4136	/	( ( (31634 + max(-4876, 0))	+	(31922 + max(-5340, 0)) )	/	2 )
=	4136	/	( ( 31634	+	31922 )	/	2 )
=	4136	/	31778
=	13.02 %

where Working Capital is:

	Working Capital		(Q: Oct. 2023 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(1938	+	7931	+	648)	-	(9326	+	0	+	6067)
=	-4876

	Working Capital		(Q: Jan. 2024 )
=	(Accounts Receivable	+	Total Inventories	+	Other Current Assets)	-	(Accounts Payable & Accrued Expense	+	Defer. Rev.	+	Other Current Liabilities)
=	(2136	+	7105	+	609)	-	(11704	+	0	+	3486)
=	-5340

When net working capital is negative, 0 is used.

Note: The EBIT data used here is four times the quarterly (Jan. 2024) EBIT data.

3. Operating Income is also linked to Operating Margin %:

The Kroger Co's Operating Margin % for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as:

Operating Margin %	=	Operating Income (Q: Jan. 2024 )	/	Revenue (Q: Jan. 2024 )
	=	1200	/	37064
	=	3.24 %

4. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Operating Income growth rate using Operating Income per share data.

Be Aware

Compared with a company's EBITDA margin, Operating Margin can be manipulated by adjusting the rate of depreciation, depletion and amortization (DDA).

If a company is facing competition, its Operating Margin may decline. Often the Operating Margin declines well before the company's revenue or even profit decline. Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important indicator of whether the company is facing problems.

For instance, by 2012, Nokia (NOK)'s problems were well known and its stock had lost more than 90% of its market value since 2007. But Nokia's Operating Margin had already been in decline since 2002, although its earnings per share were still rising. Investors who paid attention to Operating Margin would have avoided this huge loss. The same can be said for Research-in-Motion (RIMM).

Therefore, Operating Margin is a very important screening filter for GuruFocus. GuruFocus's Buffett-Munger screener requires that the profit margin is either consistent or expanding. The Model Portfolio of the Buffett-Munger screener has outperformed the market every year since inception in 2009.

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The Kroger Co (The Kroger Co) Business Description

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Address

1014 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 45202

Website

https://www.thekrogerco.com

Kroger is the leading U.S. grocer, with 2,719 supermarkets operating under several banners throughout the country at the end of fiscal 2022. Around 83% of stores have pharmacies, while nearly 60% also sell fuel. The company also operates roughly 120 fine jewelry stores. Kroger features a leading private-label offering and manufactures around 30% of its own-brand units (and more than 40% of its grocery own-label assortment) itself in 33 food production plants nationwide. Kroger is a top-two grocer in most of its major markets (as of early 2021, according to company data). Virtually all of Kroger's sales come from the United States. Kroger has offered to acquire Albertsons in a $25 billion deal; if the transaction is approved by regulators, it should close in 2024.

Executives

Carin L Fike	officer: Vice President and Treasurer	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Timothy A Massa	officer: Group Vice President	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Christine S Wheatley	officer: Group Vice President	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Kenneth C Kimball	officer: Senior Vice President	C/O THE KROGER CO., 1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Stuart Aitken	officer: Group Vice President	C/O JOURNAL MEDIA GROUP, INC., 333 WEST STATE STREET, MILWAUKEE WI 53203
Yael Cosset	officer: Group Vice President	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Gary Millerchip	officer: Senior Vice President and CFO	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Todd A Foley	officer: Vice President and Treasurer	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Valerie L. Jabbar	officer: Senior Vice President	THE KROGER CO., 1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Mary Ellen Adcock	officer: Group Vice President	1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Calvin J Kaufman	officer: Group Vice President	THE KROGER CO., 1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Mark C Tuffin	officer: Senior Vice President	THE KROGER CO., 1014 VINE STREET, CINCINNATI OH 45202
Elaine L. Chao	director	C/O DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC., ONE DOLE DRIVE, WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362
Michael Joseph Donnelly	officer: Senior Vice President
Susan J Kropf	director	C/O AVON PRODUCTS INC, 1345 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10105-0196