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Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc (NYSE: NGVC) (commonly referred to as "Vitamin Cottage" or "Natural Grocers") is a Colorado based health food chain founded in 1955 by Margaret and Philip Isely and now operated by their children. Natural Grocers are found in 19 states, mainly west of the Mississippi River. The company operates over 130 retail grocery stores in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming with approximately 3,000 employees and new stores opening monthly. Products include vitamins, dietary supplements, natural and organic food, organic produce and natural body care products.

The company is a longtime proponent of consumer education about health and nutrition, and runs an ongoing free lecture series with nutrition and health experts for both customer and employee education. Each store provides a free trained "Nutritional Health Coach" (see nutritionist) for its customers. All education activities are science-based, refer to most recent published studies, and not related to specific products or brands.

The company filed an S1 registration statement with the SEC on June 18, 2012 under the name Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. As of July 25th, 2012, the company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "NGVC".

The company has a manifesto entitled "What We Won't Sell and Why". This list includes artificial colors and flavors, artificial preservatives, irradiated food and meat raised using artificial hormones and antibiotics among others. Only USDA certified organic (see Organic certification) fruits and vegetables are sold.

Many of the company's guidelines for ensuring product purity and quality, developed over many years due to the previous lack of existing government standards, were used as the foundation for the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) legislation of 1994. Company founder Margaret Isely contributed to forming the precursor group that became the international trade group Council for Responsible Nutrition. The company maintains an active role in community education, regulatory affairs and scientific nutrition research.

Natural Grocers operates "Bag Free" stores, asking customers to bring reusable bags for their purchases or take a recycled box in place of plastic or paper bags. The company also operates an all-green retail location in Northglenn, Colorado, employing geothermal heating and cooling among other features. The store uses net zero energy for heating and cooling the interior. All Natural Grocers locations (not just distribution centers) undergo third party audits of their organic handling and processing practices by a USDA-accredited organic certification agency and are USDA certified organic handlers/processors. The company operates in compliance with all National Organic Program rules.

In 2006 the management team reached the Rocky Mountain regional final for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage received the Best Gourmet Grocery Store award from Denver's Channel 7.

In September 2009 Natural Grocers was named Colorado Top Retailer of the Year by CoBiz magazine.

Vitamin Retailer magazine named Natural Grocers as Vitamin Retailer of the Year in 2010.

Q reports

Period Date Adjusted Actuals EPS GAAP EPS
Q4 2022 2022-11-16 Future report Set alerts
Q3 2022 2022-08-04 0.17 0.17
Q2 2022 2022-05-05 0.28 0.28
Q1 2022 2022-02-03 0.39 0.39
Q4 2021 2021-11-18 0.00 0.00
Q3 2021 2021-08-05 0.00 0.00
Q2 2021 2021-05-06 0.00 0.00
Q1 2021 2021-02-04 0.00 0.00
Q4 2020 2020-11-19 0.00 0.16
Q3 2020 2020-08-06 0.00 0.21

Ratings

2016-05-19 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Buy $21.00 to $19.00
2016-05-16 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Overweight $21.00
2016-05-16 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Cos. Overweight $21.00
2016-05-08 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Buy
2016-05-06 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Neutral $15.00 to $16.00
2016-04-21 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Hold $20.00 to $16.00
2016-04-21 Lower Price Target Deutsche Bank Hold $20.00 to $15.00
2016-04-21 Downgrade RBC Capital Outperform to Sector Perform $29.00 to $16.00
2016-04-21 Lower Price Target Deutsche Bank AG Hold $20.00 to $15.00
2016-04-21 Downgrade Royal Bank Of Canada Outperform to Sector Perform $29.00 to $16.00
2016-02-17 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Buy $26.00
2016-02-10 Initiated Coverage Deutsche Bank Hold $20.00
2016-02-01 Reiterated Rating RBC Capital Outperform $32.00 to $29.00
2016-02-01 Lower Price Target Canaccord Genuity Buy $28.00 to $26.00
2016-01-29 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Buy $30.00 to $26.00
2016-01-29 Lower Price Target Stephens Overweight $27.00
2016-01-29 Lower Price Target Jefferies Group Buy $29.00 to $25.00
2016-01-29 Lower Price Target Wedbush Neutral $22.00 to $20.00
2016-01-26 Lower Price Target Canaccord Genuity Buy $32.00 to $28.00
2016-01-07 Lower Price Target Jefferies Group Buy $29.00
2015-11-23 Lower Price Target RBC Capital Outperform $33.00 to $32.00
2015-11-20 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Buy $35.00 to $30.00
2015-11-20 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Neutral $24.00 to $22.00
2015-11-20 Lower Price Target SunTrust Buy $35.00 to $30.00
2015-11-20 Lower Price Target SunTrust Banks Inc. Buy $35.00 to $30.00
2015-11-18 Initiated Coverage Wolfe Research Underperform
2015-11-17 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Hold
2015-11-17 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. Hold
2015-08-26 Initiated Coverage Jefferies Group Buy $31.00
2015-08-12 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Hold
2015-08-04 Upgrade Wedbush Underperform to Neutral $22.00 to $24.00
2015-08-03 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Overweight $36.00 to $35.00
2015-07-31 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Buy $32.00
2015-06-05 Upgrade Stephens Equal Weight to Overweight
2015-05-15 Set Price Target Piper Jaffray Buy $36.00
2015-05-12 Reiterated Rating RBC Capital Outperform $35.00 to $33.00
2015-05-08 Lower Price Target Canaccord Genuity Buy $34.00 to $32.00
2015-04-27 Initiated Coverage RBC Capital Outperform $35.00
2015-03-15 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Buy $34.00
2015-02-02 Downgrade Stephens Overweight to Equal Weight
2015-01-30 Reiterated Rating Canaccord Genuity Buy $34.00
2015-01-30 Boost Price Target Imperial Capital Outperform $33.00 to $38.00
2015-01-30 Boost Price Target Piper Jaffray $36.00
2015-01-30 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Market Perform
2015-01-23 Upgrade Piper Jaffray Neutral to Overweight $21.00 to $34.00
2015-01-22 Initiated Coverage Wedbush Underperform
2014-12-01 Upgrade Stephens Equal Weight to Overweight $24.00 to $29.00
2014-11-21 Upgrade William Blair Market Perform to Outperform
2014-10-13 Reiterated Rating Oppenheimer Market Perform $22.00 to $15.00
2014-08-28 Initiated Coverage Wedbush Neutral $19.00
2014-08-04 Downgrade Stephens Overweight to Equal Weight $42.00 to $23.00
2014-08-01 Lower Price Target Imperial Capital Outperform $35.00 to $33.00
2014-08-01 Lower Price Target Piper Jaffray Neutral $21.00
2014-08-01 Lower Price Target SunTrust $35.00 to $32.00
2014-06-18 Lower Price Target Oppenheimer Market Perform $38.00 to $22.00
2014-05-21 Downgrade Piper Jaffray Overweight to Neutral $37.00 to $22.00
2014-05-02 Lower Price Target SunTrust $44.00 to $40.00
2014-05-02 Lower Price Target Canaccord Genuity $42.00 to $37.00
2014-05-02 Downgrade William Blair Outperform to Market Perform
2014-04-29 Initiated Coverage Oppenheimer Market Perform $38.00
2013-12-19 Initiated Coverage Imperial Capital In-Line $40.00
2013-12-18 Initiated Coverage Stephens Overweight
2013-11-22 Boost Price Target SunTrust $42.00 to $44.00
2013-11-22 Boost Price Target Canaccord Genuity $38.00 to $42.00
2012-08-20 Initiated William Blair Outperform
2016-05-19 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Buy $21.00 to $19.00
2016-05-16 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Overweight $21.00
2016-05-16 Reiterated Rating Piper Jaffray Cos. Overweight $21.00
2016-05-08 Reiterated Rating Jefferies Group Buy
2016-05-06 Reiterated Rating Wedbush Neutral $15.00 to $16.00

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Major Shareholders

Name Relationship Total Shares Holding stocks
Isely Kemper Chairman & Co-President 13.87%  (3118302) NGVC /
Isely Elizabeth Exec. Vice President 5.65%  (1270299) NGVC /
LaRock & Luke Isely Trust 13D Group Member 4.62%  (1037939) NGVC /
Isely Heather Exec. VP & Corp. Secretary 4.19%  (941020) NGVC /
Isely Zephyr Co-President 2.54%  (571850) NGVC /
KIVC 2, LLC 13D Group Member 2.13%  (478788) NGVC /
Isely Lucas 13D Group Member 1.31%  (295249) NGVC /
Isely Raquel M. 13D Group Member 0.47%  (106145) NGVC /
Buffa Sandra Chief Financial Officer 0.25%  (55616) NGVC /
Isely Mariah C. 13D Group Member 0.16%  (36774) NGVC /
Isely Guy 13D Group Member 0.16%  (36774) NGVC /
Campbell Michael T 0.12%  (27751) HWCC / NGVC /
Halle Richard 0.11%  (25199) NGVC /
Isely Lark 13D Group Member 0.10%  (22682) NGVC /
Cerkovnik Edward 0.10%  (22579) NGVC /
Isely Charity 13D Group Member 0.07%  (16179) NGVC /