Funding administration firm First Pacific Advisors lately launched its “FPA Queens Street Small Cap Worth Fund” second-quarter 2025 investor letter. A duplicate of the letter could be downloaded right here. Within the second quarter, the fund returned 8.60% in comparison with a 4.97% return for the Russell 2000 Worth Index. Furthermore, the Fund returned 5.87% YTD, in comparison with -3.16% for the index. Moreover, you’ll be able to verify the fund’s high 5 holdings to find out its greatest picks for 2025.
In its second-quarter 2025 investor letter, FPA Queens Street Small Cap Worth Fund highlighted shares comparable to Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM). Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) is a retailer of contemporary, pure, and natural meals merchandise underneath the Sprouts model. The one-month return of Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) was -12.38%, and its shares gained 47.23% of their worth over the past 52 weeks. On August 15, 2025, Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) inventory closed at $145.64 per share, with a market capitalization of $14.233 billion.
FPA Queens Street Small Cap Worth Fund acknowledged the next concerning Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) in its second quarter 2025 investor letter:
“Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) is a grocery store chain specializing in contemporary, pure and natural merchandise. The corporate has robust working margins,13 engaging returns on capital and nice new retailer economics. Sprouts accelerated its unit progress from 12 shops a yr to 33 shops in 2024 on a base of roughly 400 shops. Over the previous yr, SFM’s inventory has carried out extraordinarily effectively after reporting persistently robust working outcomes. We’ve been trimming our place because the third quarter of 2024 and Sprouts now sits outdoors of our high 10 by weight. Though SFM’s share worth has elevated quicker than backside line outcomes, we imagine SFM nonetheless trades within the “vary of reasonableness” for a high-quality, non-cyclical franchise that may reinvest capital at engaging charges of return.”
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Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) isn’t on our listing of 30 Most In style Shares Amongst Hedge Funds. As per our database, 50 hedge fund portfolios held Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) on the finish of the primary quarter, which was 47 within the earlier quarter. Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:SFM) gross sales rose 17% to $2.2 billion, in Q2 2025. Whereas we acknowledge the potential of Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFM) as an funding, we imagine sure AI shares provide larger upside potential and carry much less draw back threat. If you happen to’re on the lookout for a particularly undervalued AI inventory that additionally stands to profit considerably from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring pattern, see our free report on the greatest short-term AI inventory.
