NASDAQ:SFM - Sprouts Farmers Market Stock Price, News, Headlines & Rumors

Sprouts Farmers Market trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SFM."

Sprouts Farmers Market declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback program on Friday, February 23rd 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $350,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ:SFM) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, August, 2nd. The company reported $0.32 EPS for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.32. The firm earned $1.32 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.32 billion. Sprouts Farmers Market had a return on equity of 25.56% and a net margin of 3.62%. Sprouts Farmers Market's revenue for the quarter was up 11.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.29 EPS. View Sprouts Farmers Market's Earnings History.

Sprouts Farmers Market is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November, 1st 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Sprouts Farmers Market.

Sprouts Farmers Market updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 2nd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.24-1.28 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.25. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.15-5.2 billion (+10.5-11.5%), compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.20 billion.

18 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Sprouts Farmers Market's shares. Their forecasts range from $18.00 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Sprouts Farmers Market's share price to reach $26.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 10.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Sprouts Farmers Market.

18 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Sprouts Farmers Market in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 8 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Sprouts Farmers Market.

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News headlines about SFM stock have trended somewhat positive on Thursday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern rates the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Sprouts Farmers Market earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.14 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company an impact score of 47.22 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days. View Recent Headlines for Sprouts Farmers Market.

Sprouts Farmers Market's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (8.63%), Waddell & Reed Financial Inc. (4.50%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (3.82%), Fuller & Thaler Asset Management Inc. (2.24%), Jennison Associates LLC (2.14%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.98%). Company insiders that own Sprouts Farmers Market stock include Amin N Maredia, Bradley Lukow, Brandon F Lombardi, Dan J Sanders, Daniel Bruni, James Douglas Sanders, James Leroy Nielsen, Shawn R Gensch, Shon A Boney, Steven H Townsend and Theodore Edward Frumkin II. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Sprouts Farmers Market.

SFM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Granite Investment Partners LLC, Capital Fund Management S.A., Dynamic Technology Lab Private Ltd, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and California Public Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Sprouts Farmers Market company stock in the last year include Amin N Maredia, Bradley Lukow, Brandon F Lombardi, James Leroy Nielsen, Shawn R Gensch, Shon A Boney, Steven H Townsend and Theodore Edward Frumkin II. View Insider Buying and Selling for Sprouts Farmers Market.

SFM stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Voya Investment Management LLC, Laurion Capital Management LP, Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH, Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., Jennison Associates LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Oak Ridge Investments LLC and First Quadrant L P CA. Company insiders that have bought Sprouts Farmers Market stock in the last two years include Bradley Lukow and Daniel Bruni. View Insider Buying and Selling for Sprouts Farmers Market.

Shares of SFM can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SFM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $23.90.

Sprouts Farmers Market has a market capitalization of $3.01 billion and generates $4.66 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $158.44 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.01 on an earnings per share basis. Sprouts Farmers Market employs 27,000 workers across the globe.

Sprouts Farmers Market's mailing address is 5455 EAST HIGH STREET SUITE 111, PHOENIX AZ, 85054. The company can be reached via phone at 480-814-8016 or via email at [email protected]