Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) kicked off on Friday, down -0.73% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $116.65. Over the past 52 weeks, SFM has traded in a range of $39.76-$117.98.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Defensive sector saw sales topped by 5.81%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 19.42%. With a float of $99.56 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $101.21 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 32000 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.48%, operating margin of 6.09%, and the pretax margin is 5.98%.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Grocery Stores Industry. The insider ownership of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc is 0.57%, while institutional ownership is 103.66%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 11 ’24, was worth 104,626. In this transaction Chief Stores Officer of this company sold 921 shares at a rate of $113.60, taking the stock ownership to the 25,251 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 11 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 723 for $112.00, making the entire transaction worth $80,976.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Latest Financial update
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 6/30/2024, the organization reported 0.65 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 0.62) by 0.03. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.58 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 19.42% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 11.14% during the next five years compared to 15.43% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Sprouts Farmers Market Inc’s (SFM) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.44. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.61. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 47.13.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.19, a number that is poised to hit 0.76 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.72 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM)
The latest stats from [Sprouts Farmers Market Inc, SFM] show that its last 5-days average volume of 0.74 million was inferior to 1.31 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 79.31%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 2.37.
During the past 100 days, Sprouts Farmers Market Inc’s (SFM) raw stochastic average was set at 95.03%, which indicates a significant increase from 73.69% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 17.50% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 31.97% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $105.32, while its 200-day Moving Average is $77.97. Now, the first resistance to watch is $116.58. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $117.35. The third major resistance level sits at $117.99. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $115.17, it is likely to go to the next support level at $114.53. The third support level lies at $113.76 if the price breaches the second support level.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 11.60 billion has total of 100,477K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 6,837 M in contrast with the sum of 258,860 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,894 M and last quarter income was 95,290 K.
