
dominate the portfolio. There also are a slew of nondiscretionary retailers included here, such as Wal-Mart WMT and Kroger KR . While investors shouldn't expect much higher than mid-single-digit top-line growth from these mature firms
portfolio. There also are a slew of nondiscretionary retailers included here such as Wal-Mart WMT, Walgreen WAG, and Kroger KR . While investors shouldn't expect much greater than mid-single-digit top-line growth from these mature firms
period. We were anticipating a strong comp increase as Costco continues to steal share from traditional grocers like Kroger KR and Safeway SWY, and the company did not disappoint. We fully expect Costco's strong comps to continue into 2006
the Rough : Stocks Shares Security Price Cost Dividend per share / year Tiffany & Co. ( TIF ) 12 68.46 822 $1.16 Kroger ( KR ) 12 23.27 279 $0.46 Bonds President & Fellow Harvard College 5.625% 10/01/2038 (CUSIP 740816AD5) 1 129
sales lag, and that sales gap is widening, the much higher food comps at leading competitors such as Costco COST and Kroger KR . The company levered expenses despite flat ID sales, but not enough to offset the 69 basis-point consolidated gross
sales rebound at Whole Foods WFMI and consistent comps at Kroger KR , suggests that Safeway has yet to regain lost traffic ..... for that massive store remodel program. Bottom line, Kroger stores have posted positive identical store sales for
April 10 - Fitch Ratings has assigned a rating of 'BBB' to The Kroger Co.'s ( Kroger ) $800 million issue of 10- and 30-year notes, the proceeds of which will be used to repay long-term indebtedness...
remaining one third or so of the ETF is invested in nondiscretionary firms, including grocers and drug stores (like Kroger KR and Dollar Tree DLTR). Given the recent runup in consumer discretionary stocks, the high short interest in the retail
discount retailers (Target TGT), grocers (Safeway SWY, Kroger KR , and Supervalu SVU), drug distributors (Cardinal Health ..... some nondiscretionary retailers such as Wal-Mart WMT, Kroger KR , and Walgreen WAG, the vast majority of retailers included
This includes discount retailers (such as Wal-Mart, Amazon.com AMZN , and Dollar Tree DLTR ), grocers (such as Kroger KR and Safeway SWY ), and automotive parts retailers (such as AutoZone AZO and O'Reilly ORLY). Would-be investors