How to buy Sprouts Farmers Market stock | 21.88

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc is a grocery stores business based in the US. Sprouts Farmers Market shares (SFM) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Sprouts Farmers Market employs 30,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$6.1 billion.

How to buy shares in Sprouts Farmers Market

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Sprouts Farmers Market. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: SFM. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Sprouts Farmers Market reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$21.88, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Sprouts Farmers Market, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Sprouts Farmers Market. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Sprouts Farmers Market's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Sprouts Farmers Market's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$21.88, which is 17.78% up on its pre-crash value of USD$17.99 and 68.31% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$13.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Sprouts Farmers Market shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$1,117.99 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,475.37.

Sprouts Farmers Market share price

Use our graph to track the performance of SFM stocks over time.

Sprouts Farmers Market shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-10-14.

Latest market close	USD$21.88
52-week range	USD$14.51 - USD$27.995
50-day moving average	USD$21.8183
200-day moving average	USD$23.2193
Wall St. target price	USD$28.87
PE ratio	11.5707
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$1.836

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Is it a good time to buy Sprouts Farmers Market stock?

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Sprouts Farmers Market price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $21.88 from 2020-10-16

1 week (2020-10-16)	21.88
1 month (2020-09-25)	4.34%
3 months (2020-07-24)	-17.76%
6 months (2020-04-24)	0.88%

1 year (2019-10-25)	15.52%
2 years (2018-10-25)	-18.93%
3 years (2017-10-25)	16.38%
5 years (2015-10-23)	-2.28%

Is Sprouts Farmers Market under- or over-valued?

Valuing Sprouts Farmers Market stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Sprouts Farmers Market's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Sprouts Farmers Market's P/E ratio

Sprouts Farmers Market's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 12x. In other words, Sprouts Farmers Market shares trade at around 12x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Sprouts Farmers Market's PEG ratio

Sprouts Farmers Market's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.018. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Sprouts Farmers Market's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Sprouts Farmers Market's EBITDA

Sprouts Farmers Market's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$435.8 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Sprouts Farmers Market's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Sprouts Farmers Market financials

Revenue TTM	USD$6.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	5.09%
Gross profit TTM	USD$1.9 billion
Return on assets TTM	6.86%
Return on equity TTM	34%
Profit margin	3.56%
Book value	$6.302
Market capitalisation	USD$2.5 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Sprouts Farmers Market shares

There are currently 16.1 million Sprouts Farmers Market shares held short by investors – that's known as Sprouts Farmers Market's "short interest". This figure is 0.7% up from 16.0 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Sprouts Farmers Market shares can be evaluated.

Sprouts Farmers Market's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Sprouts Farmers Market's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Sprouts Farmers Market shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Sprouts Farmers Market shares traded daily (recently around 2.3 million). Sprouts Farmers Market's SIR currently stands at 6.96. In other words for every 100,000 Sprouts Farmers Market shares traded daily on the market, roughly 6960 shares are currently held short.

However Sprouts Farmers Market's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Sprouts Farmers Market shares, or, against the total number of tradable Sprouts Farmers Market shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Sprouts Farmers Market's short interest could be expressed as 0.14% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Sprouts Farmers Market shares in existence, roughly 140 shares are currently held short) or 0.1765% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Sprouts Farmers Market shares, roughly 177 shares are currently held short).

A SIR below 10% would generally be considered to indicate a fairly optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Sprouts Farmers Market.

Find out more about how you can short Sprouts Farmers Market stock.

Sprouts Farmers Market share dividends

We're not expecting Sprouts Farmers Market to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Sprouts Farmers Market share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Sprouts Farmers Market's shares have ranged in value from as little as $14.51 up to $27.995. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Sprouts Farmers Market's is 0.1142. This would suggest that Sprouts Farmers Market's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Sprouts Farmers Market overview

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc., a healthy grocery store, provides fresh, natural, and organic food products in the United States. Its stores offer fresh produce, packaged groceries, meat and seafood, deli, vitamins and supplements, dairy and dairy alternatives, bulk items, baked goods, frozen foods, natural health and body care, beer and wine, and household items. As of February 20, 2020, it operated 341 stores in 22 states. Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Sprouts Farmers Market is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.5% of Sprouts Farmers Market shares are held by insiders and 96.224% by institutions.

• How many people work for Sprouts Farmers Market?

  Latest data suggests 30,000 work at Sprouts Farmers Market.

• When does the fiscal year end for Sprouts Farmers Market?

  Sprouts Farmers Market's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Sprouts Farmers Market based?

  Sprouts Farmers Market's address is: 5455 East High Street, Phoenix, AZ, United States, 85054

• What is Sprouts Farmers Market's ISIN number?

  Sprouts Farmers Market's international securities identification number is: US85208M1027

• What is Sprouts Farmers Market's CUSIP number?

  Sprouts Farmers Market's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 85208M102