---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-024295"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFM"
cik: "0001575515"
company_name: "Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T14:31:25.766304+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sprouts Farmers Market stockholders elect directors, approve say-on-pay and auditor ratification

## Summary
- All three Class I director nominees elected: Joel D. Anderson, Terri Funk Graham, Doug G. Rauch; withheld votes ranged from 3.4M to 10.2M.
- Advisory say-on-pay proposal for fiscal 2022 approved with 78.8M for, 7.9M against, and 0.3M abstentions.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor for FY2023 approved with 91.6M for, 1.8M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-024295
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFM
- cik: 0001575515
- company_name: Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023024295/0000950170-23-024295-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023024295/sfm-20230524.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers for fiscal 2022 at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: Proposal 2 : Advisory vote on the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers for fiscal 2022. This proposal was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023024295/0000950170-23-024295-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. shareholders approved Election of three Class I directors to serve until 2026 annual meeting at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: Proposal 1 : Election of the three Class I directors listed below to serve for a three-year term expiring at the Company’s 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. Each director nominee was duly elected.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023024295/0000950170-23-024295-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-05-24 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-24
  source text: Proposal 3 : Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the Company’s 2023 fiscal year. This proposal was approved.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575515/000095017023024295/0000950170-23-024295-index.htm

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