---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-015494"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NGVC"
cik: "0001547459"
company_name: "Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T04:15:42.343828+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Natural Grocers Q2 EPS $0.56, sales up 9%, raises FY outlook

## Summary
- Net sales up 9.0% to $335.8M; daily comparable store sales +8.9% (transaction +5.9%, basket +2.8%).
- Net income $13.1M (+64.6%), diluted EPS $0.56; adjusted EBITDA $26.3M (+33.3%).
- Operating margin improved 150 bps; opened two new stores in the quarter.
- Raised FY2025 outlook for daily comparable store sales growth and diluted EPS.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-015494
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NGVC
- cik: 0001547459
- company_name: Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1547459/000143774925015494/0001437749-25-015494-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1547459/000143774925015494/ngvc20250507_8k.htm

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