10 Stocks End Trading Week Soaring, Outshining Wall Street

8. The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR)

Kroger rallied by 9.84 percent on Friday to finish at $71.97 apiece as investor sentiment was buoyed by its optimistic sales outlook despite macroeconomic uncertainties.

In a statement, The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR) Chief Finance Officer David Kennerley said that strong sales results in the first quarter of the year has pushed the management to raise its identical sales guidance, without the impact of fuel, by 2.25 percent to 3.25 percent.

Outlook for other elements, however, remained unchanged. Net earnings per share were reaffirmed at a range of $4.6 to $4.8, while capital expenditures were pegged at $3.6 billion to $3.8 billion.

In the first quarter of the year, The Kroger Co. (NYSE:KR) dropped its attributable net income by 8.5 percent to $866 million from $947 million in the same period last year. Sales remained flat at $45 billion.