Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retailing of fresh, natural, and organic food products in the United States. The company offers healthy grocery stores; and lifestyle-friendly ingredients such as organic, plant-based, keto, paleo, non-GMO, and gluten-free. The company also offers perishable product categories, including produce, meat and meat alternatives, seafood, deli, bakery, floral, and dairy …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 100.0th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Scale Supporting ProfitabilityProfitability at scale is strong (score 0.95), demonstrating competitive advantages.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. ranks #3 of 12
scored companies in Grocery Stores by moat score — the top 25%.
The widest moat in the group is Village Super Market, Inc. (VLGEA)
at 81/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near SFM in Grocery Stores
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 55
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 60
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 78
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 78
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 92
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.'s moat score?
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (SFM) scores 72 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #3 of 12 scored companies in Grocery Stores, the top 25%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 11 companies in Grocery Stores. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (92/100) and its weakest is Cost Advantage (55/100).
How does Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. compare with other Grocery Stores companies?
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. ranks #3 of 12 scored companies in Grocery Stores by moat score. The widest moat in Grocery Stores is Village Super Market, Inc. (VLGEA) at 81/100. The companies ranked closest are Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cott (NGVC) at 78 just above it and Kroger Company (The) (KR) at 64 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 11 companies in Grocery Stores. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and SFM scores: Pricing Power (65), Cost Advantage (55), Customer Stickiness (60), Capital Efficiency (78), Resilience (78), Scale & Market Position (92). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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