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United Natural Foods – Building market share through new customers and existing customer expansion

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United Natural Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:UNFI). Last Market Price: 36.93, Change: +1.62, % Change: (4.59%). Shares trade in the range of 36.18 – 37.95 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 1.80B dollars, making it a Small Cap Stock and has 48.74M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 0.66, indicating, the stock to be less volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 1.6; P/E of 23.05 indicating, the stock to be overvalued or expected increase in company earnings. It operates in Consumer/Non-Cyclical sector and belongs to Food Processing industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 95%. The company has a 52 week Price range (low – high) of $ 32.83 – 46.05. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 419,332. Volume traded in the last session was at 143,018, 0.34 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q1 (Oct)
    • EPS of $0.40, in-line with the estimates
    • Revenues rose 15.6% year on year to $1.22 billion
  • Company States: We have continued to demonstrate our ability to build market share across channels through new customers and existing customer expansion. Looking forward, we’ll have an enhanced focus toward driving efficiencies and expense control as we continue to adapt to higher growth in lower margin customers.

For Q3 (Jul ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 1.48%, an Operating margin of 2.54%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 4.83%, Return on average equity of 8.01%. The organization has an employee strength of 6,900

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Jul-12 show a mean of 5,077.19 million dollars, an estimate high of 5,125.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 5,032.32 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 4,735.93 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Year Ending Jul-13 show a mean of 5,608.67 million dollars, an estimate high of 5,709.93 million dollars and an estimate low of 5,522.50 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 4,955.60 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Jul-12 show a mean of 1.90 dollars, an estimate high of 1.94 dollars and an estimate low of 1.84 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1.95 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Year Ending Jul-13 show a mean of 2.17 dollars, an estimate high of 2.31 dollars and an estimate low of 2.08 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 2.07 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jul-11 was estimated at 1,152.00 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 1,158.62 million dollars, 6.61 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Apr-11 was estimated at 1,173.79 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 1,203.98 million dollars, 30.19 million dollars more than estimates.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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