Company Analysis

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (SFM)

Nasdaq: SFM · Retail-Grocery Stores · Phoenix, AZ · filing with the SEC since 2013
Grade7.6
◀ Past 6.8● Present 7.5▶ Future 8.5

The grade of Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
7.6/10
◀ Past6.825% of the headline
● Present7.545% of the headline
▶ Future8.530% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.8/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.5/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
4.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+9% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 33% of this tense · 44th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $4.0 billion in fiscal 2017 to $8.8 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9% a year; it rose in 8 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2022; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span9.0%top 41% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 32% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 27% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak5.7%bottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
8.9/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 3.3% a year. 49% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 65 sales, 2 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 89th percentile among 8 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-28, Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 3.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 49% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 65 sales (12 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 2 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06, buying about $440 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 17% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

7.5/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
7.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 37%: 37¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 66%: owes 66¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-28, Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. earned about 37 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 82 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 2.6% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 32% of its family
  • return on equitytop 5% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 25% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
8.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 20% of 11 in its family; net margin 5.9%.

weight 33% of this tense · 80th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.8 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 25% by size; a net margin of 5.9% ranks in the top 5%; revenue growth of 11.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 32% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$8.81Btop 25% of its family
  • net margin5.9%top 5% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth11.2%top 32% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
6.8/10

What are the people in charge doing?

top 32% of 7 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2019.

weight 22% of this tense · 68th percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Sinclair, Jack (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-06-26, 7.4 years (top 25% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (top 50%); 4 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (top 20%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge4 in three years among 22 peopletop 20% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.0 yearstop 50% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record7.4 yearstop 25% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

8.5/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
8.9/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 11% of 11 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 89th percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $257 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 6.2% of its assets as net cash, top 14% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 5.3% of revenue (top 5%); a gross margin of 38.8% (top 15%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets6.2%top 14% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue5.3%top 5% of its family
  • gross margin38.8%top 15% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
8.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 17% of 11 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.2% a year over the last three filed years against 9% over all 10, speeding up (top 5% of its family); the newest year grew 14.1% (top 23%); capital spending grew 26.1% a year (top 23%) (its annual reports). Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Perishables at $5.0 billion (57%), Non Perishables at $3.8 billion (43%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+2.2 points a yeartop 5% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth14.1%top 23% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending26.1%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
8.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 15% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 85th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.8 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.9% above the $8.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 15% of its family); net income of $524 million against a prior three-year average of $300 million (top 25%); a net margin of 5.9% against 4.3% before (top 5%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace3.9%top 15% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+74%top 25% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+1.7 pointstop 5% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SFM · research, not advice