Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM) is 16.72% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $61.61 and a high of $178.99 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The SFM stock was last observed hovering at around $149.78 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.47%.
Currently trading at $148.31, the stock is 4.78% and -1.70% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.05 million and changing -0.98% at the moment leaves the stock 21.78% off its SMA200. SFM registered 133.82% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 36.46%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $150.882 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $121.78405.
The stock witnessed a -1.90% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 14.61%, and is 6.11% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 3.53% over the week and 4.42% over the month.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) has around 35000 employees, a market worth around $14.62B and $7.72B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 39.50 and Fwd P/E is 27.82. Profit margin for the company is 4.93%. Distance from 52-week low is 140.72% and -17.14% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (13.36%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 24.70% this year
895.0 institutions hold shares in Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM), with institutional investors hold 103.23% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 99.26M, and float is at 98.03M with Short Float at 6.36%. Institutions hold 102.71% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is BLACKROCK INC. with over 12.98 million shares valued at $1.09 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 12.9219 of the SFM Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 10.56 million shares valued at $883.5 million to account for 10.5122 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are FMR LLC which holds 6.67 million shares representing 6.6439 and valued at over $558.39 million, while RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGIES LLC holds 4.4178 of the shares totaling 4.44 million with a market value of $371.3 million.
Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Konat Nicholas, the company’s President & COO. SEC filings show that Konat Nicholas sold 11,283 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 24 ’25 at a price of $143.13 per share for a total of $1.61 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 55675.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Mar 20 ’25, Coffin Kim (SVP, Chief Forager) disposed off 313 shares at an average price of $139.43 for $43641.0. The insider now directly holds 12,312 shares of Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (SFM).
