Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) on Monday, plunged -4.52% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $151.04. Within the past 52 weeks, SFM’s price has moved between $45.29 and $155.64.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 5.81% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 29.82%. With a float of $99.45 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $100.04 million.
In an organization with 32000 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.9%, operating margin of 6.37%, and the pretax margin is 6.3%.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Insider Updates
Observing investor behavior towards Grocery Stores industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc is 0.54%, while institutional ownership is 101.08%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Dec 03 ’24, was worth 52,540. In this transaction Director of this company sold 350 shares at a rate of $150.11, taking the stock ownership to the 0 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 04 ’24, when Company’s Chief Supply Chain Officer sold 4,956 for $132.66, making the entire transaction worth $657,464. This insider now owns 11,184 shares in total.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 29.82% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 17.97% 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
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.59 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.94. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 40.69.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.46, a number that is poised to hit 0.72 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.20 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 1.2 million. That was inferior than the volume of 1.34 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 40.68%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.79.
During the past 100 days, Sprouts Farmers Market Inc’s (SFM) raw stochastic average was set at 84.60%, which indicates a significant increase from 29.36% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 31.97% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 34.76% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $131.33, while its 200-day Moving Average is $93.30. However, in the short run, Sprouts Farmers Market Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $149.28. Second resistance stands at $154.35. The third major resistance level sits at $157.67. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $140.90, it is likely to go to the next support level at $137.58. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $132.51.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 14.42 billion based on 99,991K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 6,837 M and income totals 258,860 K. The company made 1,946 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 91,610 K in sales during its previous quarter.
