Short interest in The Kroger Co (NYSE:KR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 10.37M to 11.94M. This put 1.88% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Kroger gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Kroger's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 6.67M shares traded per day, it would take 1.79 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.