Valuation
26% of the score
77median 13
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. is valued at 11.5x its operating profit, including debt: a low multiple.
25x
20x
15x
10x
6x
11.5x
Full points at 6x or less, none from 25xfull points
SFMSprouts Farmers Market, Inc.
$63.47-54% 1Y
$63.47
$62.5352 weeks$137.72
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 76 out of 100, Strong
Strong. Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. scores higher than 93% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by valuation and return on new capital, held back by cycle position.
Consumer Defensive median 60 · all companies 50
Return on capital
18% of the score
71median 34
Over 7 years the business earned 13% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
13%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest 18%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
90median 49
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 10 cents. New capital earned 25%, and 42% of profit went back into the business.
-5%
12%
10%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
89median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 3.5% a year over 5 years: buybacks
1005%
-3%
-3.5%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 8.2% a year, sales 6.4%
7312%
-2%
1.8%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
36median 62
Today's operating margin of 7.4% is 1.36x its normal 5.5%: near a peak, where margins tend to fall back. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
1.4x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 7.4%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
100median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 24x
1001.5x
12x
24.4x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
70median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.57x profit over 3 years
1000.7x
1x
1.3x
1.6x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 4.9% of assets
858%
0%
-8%
-4.9%
0 pointsfull points
Beneish M-score-1.84
26-1.50
-1.78
-2.22
-3.00
-1.84
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2026-06-28, latest annual report FY2025.
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