Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) on Thursday, soared 0.45% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $159.44. Within the past 52 weeks, SFM’s price has moved between $61.71 and $178.99.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Consumer Defensive sector was 6.75%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 24.70%. With a float of $97.63 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $99.26 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 35000 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 37.28%, operating margin of 6.6%, and the pretax margin is 6.56%.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Grocery Stores industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc is 0.56%, while institutional ownership is 98.72%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 10 ’25, was worth 449,481. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer of this company sold 2,915 shares at a rate of $154.20, taking the stock ownership to the 186,400 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 09 ’25, when Company’s Chief Executive Officer sold 2,915 for $149.36, making the entire transaction worth $435,398. This insider now owns 189,315 shares in total.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Earnings and Forecasts
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.15 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 24.70% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 16.67% during the next five years compared to 24.61% 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 0.49 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 2.04. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 37.90.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 3.75, a number that is poised to hit 1.54 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.33 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 1.59 million, its volume of 1.35 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 84.64%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 6.90.
During the past 100 days, Sprouts Farmers Market Inc’s (SFM) raw stochastic average was set at 64.99%, which indicates a significant decrease from 85.51% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 42.78% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 45.41% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $151.60, while its 200-day Moving Average is $127.41. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $161.71 in the near term. At $163.27, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $165.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $158.41, it is likely to go to the next support level at $156.66. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $155.10.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 15.72 billion based on 98,178K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 7,719 M and income totals 380,600 K. The company made 1,996 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 79,600 K in sales during its previous quarter.
