NASDAQ:SFM - Sprouts Farmers Market Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Sprouts Farmers Market declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback plan on Friday, February 23rd 2018, which allows the company to buyback $350,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ:SFM) released its earnings results on Thursday, May, 3rd. The company reported $0.50 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.01. The company earned $1.29 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.29 billion. Sprouts Farmers Market had a return on equity of 24.93% and a net margin of 3.71%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.33 EPS. View Sprouts Farmers Market's Earnings History.

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

Sprouts Farmers Market updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Thursday, May, 3rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.22-1.28 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $1.27. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.15-5.2 billion (+10.5-11.5%), compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.24 billion.

20 brokerages have issued twelve-month price targets for Sprouts Farmers Market's stock. Their predictions range from $18.00 to $32.00. On average, they anticipate Sprouts Farmers Market's share price to reach $26.2941 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Sprouts Farmers Market.

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News coverage about SFM stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Sprouts Farmers Market earned a media sentiment score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the company an impact score of 45.12 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Sprouts Farmers Market's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (8.23%), Old Mutual Global Investors UK Ltd. (2.61%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (1.88%), Scopus Asset Management L.P. (1.65%), Eaton Vance Management (1.30%) and Neuberger Berman Group LLC (0.86%). 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 Millennium Management LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, Compagnie Lombard Odier SCmA, Scopus Asset Management L.P., Davidson Investment Advisors, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Company MN and Granite Investment Partners LLC. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department, Oak Ridge Investments LLC, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, BlackRock Inc., Quadrature Capital Ltd and Hussman Strategic Advisors Inc.. 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 $20.99.

Sprouts Farmers Market has a market capitalization of $2.77 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]