SFMSprouts Farmers Market, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.3×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Profits are tracking sales roughly one-for-one, limited operating leverage either way.
Efficiency-driven, thin margins turned over fast (the retail model). ROE 35% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is SFM?
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. earns 41% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 32 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 7.4%
Operating margin · Grocery Stores median 1.8% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.34×
Cash conversion · 1.54× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −4.4%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.0% |
| FY2021 | 5.5% |
| FY2022 | 5.6% |
| FY2023 | 5.1% |
| FY2024 | 6.5% |
| FY2025 | 7.8% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 39%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.4%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.6%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $9.00B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $357M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $503M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 41%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.