Sprouts Farmers Market
SFM · Food Retail
$66.26
3.8%United Natural Foods
UNFI · Food Retail
$46.88
0.8%The short version
- United Natural Foods is the larger business, with $31.2B of revenue in fiscal 2026 against $8.8B for Sprouts Farmers Market, about 3.5 times as much.
- Sprouts Farmers Market grew revenue faster (14.1%, against −2.0%).
- Sprouts Farmers Market kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (7.8% operating margin, against 0.7% operating margin).
- Sprouts Farmers Market turned more of its sales into free cash flow (5.3% FCF margin, against 1.0% FCF margin).
- Sprouts Farmers Market earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (46.9%, against 5.3%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of United Natural Foods’s earnings: a P/E of 35.0x against 12.7x for Sprouts Farmers Market.
| Latest fiscal year | SFM · FY25 | UNFI · FY26 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $6.3B | $2.9B |
| Revenue | $8.8B | $31.2B |
| Free cash flow | $468M | $323M |
| Net income | $524M | $84.0M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 14.1% | −2.0% |
| 5-year growth | 6.4% | 2.9% |
| Share count change | −2.6% | 4.3% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 38.8% | 13.5% |
| Operating margin | 7.8% | 0.7% |
| Net margin | 6.0% | 0.3% |
| FCF margin | 5.3% | 1.0% |
| Return on capital | 46.9% | 5.3% |
| Return on equity | 38.4% | 5.3% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | −$244M | $1.5B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | −0.3x | 3.0x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $472M | $50.0M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 12.7x | 35.0x |
| Piotroski F-score | 7 | 6 |
FY17
SFM $4.7B
UNFI $9.3B
FY18
SFM $5.2B
UNFI $10.2B
FY19
SFM $5.6B
UNFI $22.3B
FY20
SFM $6.5B
UNFI $26.6B
FY21
SFM $6.1B
UNFI $27.0B
FY22
SFM $6.4B
UNFI $28.9B
FY23
SFM $6.8B
UNFI $30.3B
FY24
SFM $7.7B
UNFI $31.0B
FY25
SFM $8.8B
UNFI $31.8B
FY26
SFM —
UNFI $31.2B
SFM
UNFI
FY17
SFM 4.9%
UNFI 2.4%
FY18
SFM 4.3%
UNFI 2.2%
FY19
SFM 3.9%
UNFI −0.9%
FY20
SFM 6.1%
UNFI −0.7%
FY21
SFM 5.5%
UNFI 1.1%
FY22
SFM 5.6%
UNFI 1.5%
FY23
SFM 5.1%
UNFI 0.4%
FY24
SFM 6.5%
UNFI 0.0%
FY25
SFM 7.8%
UNFI −0.1%
FY26
SFM —
UNFI 0.7%
SFM
UNFI
FY17
SFM $111M
UNFI $217M
FY18
SFM $117M
UNFI $64.4M
FY19
SFM $172M
UNFI $57.0M
FY20
SFM $372M
UNFI $284M
FY21
SFM $262M
UNFI $304M
FY22
SFM $247M
UNFI $80.0M
FY23
SFM $240M
UNFI $301M
FY24
SFM $415M
UNFI −$92.0M
FY25
SFM $468M
UNFI $239M
FY26
SFM —
UNFI $323M
SFM
UNFI
FY17
SFM 18.4%
UNFI 7.8%
FY18
SFM 17.9%
UNFI 8.8%
FY19
SFM —
UNFI −4.7%
FY20
SFM —
UNFI −3.8%
FY21
SFM —
UNFI 6.4%
FY22
SFM 27.0%
UNFI 9.0%
FY23
SFM 25.2%
UNFI 3.2%
FY24
SFM 35.3%
UNFI 0.2%
FY25
SFM 46.9%
UNFI −0.7%
FY26
SFM —
UNFI 5.3%
SFM
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