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The Kroger Co.

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KR in the last 90 days

The Kroger Co. (KR) had 4 congress transactions by 2 members and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 29,646,792 shares held short, 4.0 days to cover, up 3.7% from the report before.

  • Congress: 3 purchases and 1 sale reported, amounts in the bands the law requires.
  • Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 06 AUG 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$59$73 → $59 · -19% over six months

KR is down 19%. Short sellers still aren't backing off.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are up 15% over the same stretch.

$73 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT05 JUN 2026 — Hon. David J. Taylor — $1,001 – $15,00024 JUL 2026 — Hon. David J. Taylor — $1,001 – $15,00024 JUL 2026 — Hon. David J. Taylor — $1,001 – $15,000NOW $59

Politician activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +22%15 SEPT +15%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT

Money betting KR falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.

Politicians

3 buys · 0 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets up 15%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

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Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

Our take on how well KR holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 21 SEPT 2026

Resilient

When KR gets hit, it tends to hold up better than usual.

Lately, KR has been harder to push down than usual.

That's been true for the last 3 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable
MAYJUNJULAUGSEPT
31 MAR 2026Now · 21 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

2 of 4 sources

+15Tilted in

Leaning outBalancedLeaning in

The disclosed money is leaning into this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on two of the four sources we track.

Short interest
Short interest rose 1.0% — 29,342,250 to 29,646,792 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
-3
Congress
2 members of Congress disclosed 3 purchases and 1 sale. See the filings →
+50

This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

29,646,792shares held short

Days to cover

3.98

Avg daily volume

7,441,542

Since last report

+3.67%

As of 15 September 2026, 29,646,792 The Kroger Co. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 1,050,176 shares more than the previous report, a 3.67% increase. At the average daily volume of 7,441,542 shares, that position represents 3.98 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for KR — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 25,410,675 shares on 31 March 2026 to 29,646,792 today, a change of 16.7%. The highest reading in that window was 31,384,170 shares on 29 May 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 202629,646,7923.98
31 AUG 202628,596,6164.77
14 AUG 202627,697,8144.67
31 JUL 202625,866,6944.07
15 JUL 202629,342,2503.21
30 JUN 202627,198,1982.42
15 JUN 202630,490,6293.96
29 MAY 202631,384,1704.29
15 MAY 202625,716,3565.58
30 APR 202625,880,7265.33
15 APR 202625,670,9275.36
31 MAR 202625,410,6753.58
What is KR's short interest?
29,646,792 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?
We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?
It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?
It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 3.98. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?
FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions17

Latest change06 AUG 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 17

Congress transactions on file

17 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00024 JUL 202606 AUG 202613 days
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00024 JUL 202606 AUG 202613 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00003 OCT 202505 AUG 2026306 days — the law says 45
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00003 OCT 202505 AUG 2026306 days — the law says 45
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 JUN 202612 JUN 20267 days
Hon. David J. TaylorSOLD$1,001 – $15,00024 MAR 202602 APR 20269 days
Hon. David J. TaylorSOLD$1,001 – $15,00026 FEB 202606 MAR 20268 days
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00016 JAN 202602 FEB 202617 days
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00016 JAN 202602 FEB 202617 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00006 OCT 202514 NOV 202539 days
Hon. Valerie HoyleSOLD$1,001 – $15,00023 SEPT 202510 OCT 202517 days
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00022 SEPT 202507 OCT 202515 days
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00022 SEPT 202507 OCT 202515 days
Hon. Valerie HoyleBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00028 JUL 202512 SEPT 202546 days — the law says 45
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$15,001 – $50,00012 MAY 202522 JUN 202541 days
Hon. Greg LandsmanSOLD$250,001 – $500,00009 MAY 202513 MAY 20254 days
Hon. David J. TaylorBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00020 FEB 202503 APR 202542 days
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