Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM)

• Market cap: $15.7B
• 1 day: 0.45%
• 5 days: 2.89%
• 1 month: 13.59%
• 3 months: 15.01%
• 6 months: 37.29%
• Year to date: 20.45%
• 1 year: 156.57%
• 5 years: 683.51%
• 10 years: 384.72%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Grocery Stores

About: Sprouts Farmers Market Inc offers a specialty grocery experience featuring an open layout with fresh produce at the heart of the store. Sprouts inspire wellness naturally with a carefully curated assortment products paired with purpose-driven people. The company continues to bring products made with lifestyle-friendly ingredients such as organic, plant-based, and gluten-free. It approximately has 407 stores in nearly 23 states. The Company has one operating segment that is healthy grocery stores.

Employees: 35,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

155% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 135 | Existing positions closed: 53

14% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 14 [Q3] → 16 (+2) [Q4]

12% more funds holding

Funds holding: 595 [Q3] → 669 (+74) [Q4]

11% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $10.8B [Q3] → $12B (+$1.21B) [Q4]

3.43% less ownership

Funds ownership: 97.93% [Q3] → 94.5% (-3.43%) [Q4]

11% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 220 | Existing positions reduced: 247

26% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $122M | Put options by funds: $166M

Research analyst outlook

11 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $136 15% downside
• Avg. target: $171 7% upside
• High target: $200 25% upside

11 analyst ratings

• positive: 4 36%
• neutral: 7 64%
• negative: 0 0%

RBC Capital Steven Shemesh 53% 1-year accuracy 25 / 47 met price target	0% downside $160	Sector Perform Reiterated	25 Mar 2025
Deutsche Bank Krisztina Katai 40% 1-year accuracy 8 / 20 met price target	19% upside $190	Buy Upgraded	17 Mar 2025
Evercore ISI Group Michael Morris 46% 1-year accuracy 17 / 37 met price target	12% upside $180	Outperform Maintained	11 Mar 2025
JP Morgan Ken Goldman 58% 1-year accuracy 7 / 12 met price target	15% downside $136	Neutral Maintained	11 Mar 2025
Jefferies Christopher Mandeville 0 / 0 met price target	13% downside $139	Hold Maintained	25 Feb 2025