Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.: Meeting takeaways: Affordability & loyalty program could unlock comp reacceleration

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Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.: Meeting takeaways: Affordability & loyalty program could unlock comp reacceleration

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Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.

Meeting takeaways: Affordability & loyalty

program could unlock comp reacceleration

Reiterate Rating: BUY | PO: 100.00 USD | Price: 86.89 USD

Reiterate Buy on strong sales and margin outlook 12 May 2026

We hosted investor meetings in Boston with SFM’s CEO Jack Sinclair, CFO Curtis Equity

Valentine, President & COO Nick Konat, and VP of IR & Treasury Susannah Livingston.

We reiterate our Buy rating on SFM and raise our PO from $92 to $100, now based on

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17x (was 16x) our 2027E EPS given our increasing confidence in SFM’s “specialty shop”

model, which should continue to benefit from 1) a high degree of assortment (US$) Previous Current

differentiation and significantly higher margins vs. most food retail peers; 2) a sustained Price Obj. 92.00 100.00

8%+ annual unit growth outlook (with 2027E expected to be back in line with SFM’s

~10% historical target); and 3) stronger comp sales/traffic and ROIC vs. traditional RobertResearchF.AnalystOhmes, CFA

grocers. Key takeaways from our investor meetings included: BofAS

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Loyalty program generates deeper customer insights Vicky Liu, CFA

SFM has seen positive customer response to its loyalty multipliers (sponsored by Research Analyst

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vendors). Increasing loyalty program participation and help from the new marketing +1 646 855 5115

team allow SFM to increase wallet share through loyalty data and personalization yanjun.liu@bofa.com

capabilities. SFM also saw strength in deli such as wellness bowls under $10, $5 sushi

Wednesday and $5 sandwiches, and these meal solutions are driving both basket and