date:Mar 07, 2014
s per share, in the quarter ended Feb. 1. It earned $462 million, or 88 cents per share, in the year-earlier quarter, which included one extra week.
Excluding items, earnings were 78 cents per share, beating analysts' average estimate by 6 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Total sales fell 3.7 percent to $23.2 billion. Adjusting for the extra week in the year-earlier quarter, sales rose 4.8 percent.
Kroger shares rose 27 cents, or less than 1 percent, to $43.95 in midday