Kroger's Earnings Are Coming and Nobody Cares Because SpaceX Just Launched Into Your Portfolio
Retail traders are all-in on the SpaceX afterglow while Kroger quietly walks toward its ugliest earnings print since mid-2024
Ticker Ratings
Let's be honest: $KR could report earnings this week and the financial internet would collectively shrug, because every retail trader with a brokerage account is still refreshing their $SPCX position from Friday. But Kroger is coming whether you're paying attention or not — and Bloomberg's pre-earnings coverage is calling it the grocer's weakest sales and profit growth of the year, with same-store sales at their lowest since August 2024. That's not a vibe. That's a warning label.
On the brighter side of the tape, semiconductors are giving bulls something to cheer about. $SMH just posted its highest-ever weekly close, sitting only 3.7% from all-time highs according to TheChartGuys on YouTube. Memory names like $MU and $SNDK are leading the NASDAQ charge, with SNDK showing the strongest relative performance in the group. Market breadth is improving, weekly bull flags are intact, and bears haven't shown any meaningful follow-through. The setup is constructive.
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh makes his policy debut this week too — rates expected unchanged, but every syllable of that press conference will be analyzed like a Taylor Swift lyric. Kroger gets to report into all of this noise. Rough week to be a grocery stock.