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SFM US Equity

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.Consumer Staples · Retail-Grocery Stores · CIK 1575515 · FY ends Dec 28
$81.08
+2.70 (+3.44%)
USD · as of 2026-08-21 · marketstack

Legal & controls

5 of 5 annual reports readable here

Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”

Fiscal yearFiledItem 3ICFRdisclosure controlsmaterial weaknessFiling
2025-12-282026-02-19described hereeffectiveeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · From time to time we are a party to legal proceedings, including matters involving personnel and employment issues, product liability, personal injury, intellectual property and other proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, which have not resulted in any material losses to date. Although our management does not expect that the outcome in these proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations, litigation is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we could incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could materially impact our results. See Note 17, “Commitments and Contingencies” to our consolidated financial statements contained in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information regarding certain legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 28, 2025.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 28, 2025, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

2024-12-292025-02-20described hereeffectiveeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · From time to time we are a party to legal proceedings, including matters involving personnel and employment issues, product liability, personal injury, intellectual property and other proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, which have not resulted in any material losses to date. Although our management does not expect that the outcome in these proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations, litigation is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we could incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could materially impact our results. See Note 18, “Commitments and Contingencies” to our consolidated financial statements contained in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information regarding certain legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 29, 2024.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 29, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

2023-12-312024-02-22described hereeffectiveeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · From time to time we are a party to legal proceedings, including matters involving personnel and employment issues, product liability, personal injury, intellectual property and other proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, which have not resulted in any material losses to date. Although our management does not expect that the outcome in these proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations, litigation is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we could incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could materially impact our results. See Note 19, “Commitments and Contingencies” to our consolidated financial statements contained in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for information regarding certain legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2023.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

2023-01-012023-03-02described hereeffectiveeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · From time to time we are a party to legal proceedings, including matters involving personnel and employment issues, product liability, personal injury, intellectual property and other proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, which have not resulted in any material losses to date. Although our management does not expect that the outcome in these proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations, litigation is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we could incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could materially impact our results. See Note 19, “Commitments and Contingencies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding certain legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of January 1, 2023.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of January 1, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

2022-01-022022-02-24described hereeffectiveeffectivenone in Item 9AEDGAR

Item 3 · From time to time we are a party to legal proceedings, including matters involving personnel and employment issues, product liability, personal injury, intellectual property and other proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business, which have not resulted in any material losses to date. Although our management does not expect that the outcome in these proceedings will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations, litigation is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we could incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims that could materially impact our results. See Note 18, “Commitments and Contingencies” to our Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding certain legal proceedings in which we are involved.

Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of January 2, 2022.

Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based upon that evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of January 2, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures are effective.

5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.

  • Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
  • A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
  • An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
  • When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
  • Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.