Sprouts Farmers Market (SFM) Earnings: Q3 Fiscal 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 27, 2026 and Sprouts Farmers Market published the results on October 28, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 fiscal 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• Sprouts reports in thousands; figures here are converted to millions. The product category split comes from the revenue disaggregation note in the 10-Q, not the release.
• Fiscal 2026 is a 53-week year with the extra week in the fourth quarter. Q3 fiscal 2026 and Q3 fiscal 2025 were both 13-week quarters.

Source: Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 results, October 28, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 27, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Sprouts Farmers Market splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 fiscal 2026 against Q3 fiscal 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Sprouts Farmers Market's Perishables revenue was $1.3 billion in Q3 fiscal 2026, up 4% from $1.3 billion in Q3 fiscal 2025, 57% of total revenue.
• Sprouts Farmers Market's Non-Perishables revenue was $985 million in Q3 fiscal 2026, up 5% from $934 million in Q3 fiscal 2025, 43% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

The fourth-quarter figures are on a 13-week basis and the full-year figures on a 52-week basis. Fiscal 2026 has 53 weeks, and Sprouts gives the extra week's estimated effect separately.

In its Q3 fiscal 2026 release, Sprouts Farmers Market said:

“Comparable store sales: (2.0)% to (4.0)%”

“Diluted earnings per share: $0.47 to $0.51”

“We estimate the impact from the 53rd week to be approximately $190 million in sales, $20 million in income before interest and taxes, and $0.16 in diluted earnings per share.”

“Diluted earnings per share: ~$4.80”

Source: Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 release, Oct 28, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 28, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the SFM forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

Net sales and GAAP diluted EPS, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

We do not hold a confirmed date for Sprouts Farmers Market's next report. Companies post the date on their investor relations site a few weeks ahead, usually with the time of the conference call.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 fiscal 2026 (this page), reported Oct 28, 2026

Sprouts Farmers Market has one reportable segment, healthy grocery stores, and gets all of its revenue from sales in its stores across the United States. It splits net sales into two product groups. Perishables (produce, meat and meat alternatives, seafood, deli, bakery, floral, and dairy and dairy alternatives) were 57.3% of net sales in Q3 fiscal 2026, against 57.5% a year earlier. Non-Perishables (grocery, vitamins and supplements, bulk, frozen, beer and wine, and natural health and body care) were 42.7%. (Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

Net sales rose $104.3 million, or 5%, to $2.3 billion. Sprouts attributed the increase to $128.8 million of sales from new stores, partly offset by a 0.9% decrease in comparable store sales. Comparable store sales fell because the number of transactions dropped 3.3%, partly offset by a 2.5% increase in transaction size. (Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

Sprouts said the cyclospora outbreak hurt a number of its produce categories, and it counted a 0.6% negative impact from the outbreak inside the comparable store sales decline. The 10-Q also describes an uneven macroeconomic backdrop, with lower traffic and more measured spending among its customers. (Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

Sprouts opened a record 15 new stores and closed one, ending at 504 stores in 25 states, against 464 a year earlier. Its stores are concentrated in California, which had 156 stores and 33% of the total at the end of fiscal 2025, followed by Texas, Florida, Arizona and Colorado. (Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 release, Oct 28, 2026; Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026; Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-K, fiscal 2025, Feb 19, 2026)

Sprouts Brand products, the private label sold only in its stores, made up just over 25% of revenue in fiscal 2025. Sprouts launched its Sprouts Rewards loyalty program nationwide in 2025 and defers part of each qualifying sale as a loyalty liability until points are redeemed or expire. (Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-K, fiscal 2025, Feb 19, 2026; Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

Sprouts Farmers Market's diluted EPS was $1.21 in Q3 fiscal 2026, against $1.22 a year earlier, on net income of $113.4 million, down from $120.1 million. Sprouts reported no special items in the quarter, so its adjusted diluted EPS in the earnings presentation is the same $1.21. (Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 release, Oct 28, 2026; Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 earnings presentation, Oct 28, 2026)

Gross margin fell to 38.2% from 38.7%, which Sprouts put down to higher shrink of about 0.4% of sales from softer comparable store sales and higher fuel costs of about 0.1% of sales. Selling, general and administrative expenses rose $29.9 million, mostly from $43.9 million of expenses tied to new stores, partly offset by $15.2 million lower incentive compensation. The effective tax rate rose to 25.1% from 24.0%. (Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

Net income fell 6% and EPS fell only one cent because the share count shrank. Diluted weighted average shares were 93,666 thousand, against 98,715 thousand a year earlier. Sprouts repurchased 1.1 million shares for $89 million in the quarter, excluding excise tax, and a further 0.5 million shares for $30.0 million between September 27 and October 26, 2026. (Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 release, Oct 28, 2026; Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Sprouts Farmers Market gives a numeric outlook in its release. For Q4 fiscal 2026, on a 13-week basis, it guided comparable store sales of (2.0)% to (4.0)% and diluted EPS of $0.47 to $0.51. Fiscal 2026 has a 53rd week in the fourth quarter, which Sprouts estimates adds about $190 million of sales, $20 million of income before interest and taxes, and $0.16 of diluted EPS on top of those figures. (Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 release, Oct 28, 2026)

For the full year on a 52-week basis, Sprouts guided net sales growth of about 4.3%, comparable store sales of about (1.7)%, EBIT of about $605 million, diluted EPS of about $4.80, 42 net new stores and capital expenditures, net of landlord reimbursements, of about $310 million. In the 10-Q it said it expects to increase investments in affordability, including broader and deeper price investments, in the fourth quarter and into fiscal 2027, and that these and lower comparable store sales would pressure margins in the near term. (Sprouts Farmers Market Q3 2026 release, Oct 28, 2026; Sprouts Farmers Market Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 28, 2026)

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The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Sprouts Farmers Market's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 fiscal 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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