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After Kroger's second-quarter results, experts lowered their predictions for the company's stock.

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Q2 EPS and sales beat while the company trimmed full-year same-store sales growth, so the earnings surprise does not clearly change Kroger's outlook.

KR · Kroger Company

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Kroger reported Q2 adjusted EPS of $1.09 and sales of $34.621 billion, both above analyst estimates. It kept its fiscal 2026 adjusted EPS forecast at $5.10 to $5.30 but cut full-year same-store sales growth to 0.2%–0.8%, so the beats and the sales cut cancel each other.

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