Kroger Stock Dividend Value and Analysis

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Kroger stock reported strong earnings and raised its guidance for the coming year earlier today. At least some of this increase can be attributed to the fact that when people eat out less because of the pandemic, they have to buy more groceries to make up for that meals being made at home. Is Kroger a Buy Now? As always, the best way to invest for long-term goals is to create a diversified portfolio tailored to your risk tolerance and goals. Once you’ve gotten those set up and properly funded, you can look at other investment opportunities. Kroger is a nationwide grocery chain that includes many different brands including King Soopers here in Colorado. As a result, Kroger is not a growth stock, but it also has a large position in an industry that cannot be eliminated. People need food and they have to buy it somewhere. The stock’s price ranged from the low 20s to the mid-40s over the entire previous five year range. That said, the stock trades at a 22 PE ratio, which is high for this kind of company. As always, I believe in my stocks paying me money why I wait for them to appreciate …

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Was Buying Jet.com a Waste of Money?

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Walmart bought Jet.com earlier this year for over $3 BILLION. If you questioned the wisdom of that purchase then, you’re going to love today’s news. It seems that there was a 63 percent increase in online sales during the most recent quarter. That’s good. Even better, most of that increase came from shopping at the flagship site Walmart.com. That’s also good. It seems that the primary driver to this increase was free two-day shipping. That’s great. Check out the Digit review. Free Shipping Equals Higher Online Sales at Walmart You see, all it took to turn Walmart into a bonafide Amazon competitor was to match the latter’s beloved shipping terms. There was no need to panic. All Walmart had to do was take the same website it already had, and offer better shipping terms than it was. There was no need to do anything rash like run out and buy some online shopping company just so that you could say to investors that you were doing SOMETHING. Walmart chief executive, Goug McMillion, even said, “The acquisitions have received a lot of attention, but our plan in ecommerce is not to buy our way to success.” WHAT!?!? Then what in the world did …

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Walmart Buys Jet.com

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A couple years ago, when Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1 billion, I wasn’t the only one who wondered what value Yahoo saw in the acquisition. It takes a special kind of Silicon Valley mind to think that a money losing internet business plus a money losing internet business somehow adds up to profit. It turns out that even the modest goal of $100 million in annual REVENUE, not profit, set by Yahoo, was too much for the internet property supposedly worth so much that Yahoo shelled out $1.1 billion for it. It seems that the great lesson of the internet bubble years earlier, that eyeballs and name recognition, do not equal money, still isn’t something tech companies are ready to learn. Which brings us to today’s multi-billion dollar buyout of Jet.com, a money-losing online retailer that goes head to head with Amazon. It’s just over a year old now, and it crossed the $1 billion in revenue line earlier this year. Revenue, not profit. The company, by all accounts, hemorrhages cash and funds its operations by taking on more investors. But, somewhere in there, Wal-Mart sees something worth $3 billion, plus an additional $300 million in Wal-Mart stock. I guess tech companies …

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