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Ticker: SG, $12.76, -0.74 (-5.48%) as of May 29, 2025, 4:10 PM ET 🥬🧁 

📆 Updated: May 30, 2025
🥗 Tagline: Greens are good—unless they're red on your portfolio. 

🌱 The Trigger: Sweet Insider Salad

For the first time since Sweetgreen went public in November 2021, we’ve got a legit insider bite. 🍴

🧑💼 Clifford Burrows, Director extraordinaire, just scooped up 19,200 shares at $13.11—totaling $251,712. That’s not nibbling on lettuce. That’s main-course conviction. 🥗💰

Insiders aren’t alone:
337 institutions own 112.55% of the float. No, that's not a typo. It’s Wall Street salad math. Welcome to the land of shorts, options, and more tangled bets than a Caesar.

🏦 Top Institutional Shareholders:

🧾 Financials: Light Dressing, Heavy Losses

🧮 Q1 2025 Results:

• Revenue: $166.3M (up 5.4% YoY)

• Same-Store Sales: Down 3.1% (ouch)

• Net Loss: $(25.0)M (at least it's... less than last year’s)

• Restaurant-Level Profit Margin: 17.9% 🥬

• Adjusted EBITDA: $0.3M (we’re squinting here 👀 — that’s basically breakeven)

• Net New Restaurants: 5

📉 TL;DR: They're opening new stores, not making new money.

🧠 Management Says...

“Innovation! Guest experience! Resilience!”
Translation: “We’re working on it, okay?” 😅

“Margins exceeded expectations!”
Translation: “Our avocado sourcing is on point.” 🥑

🔮 2025 Outlook:

• 40+ New Stores (20 Infinite Kitchen 🍽️ robots)

• Revenue: $740–$760M

• Same-Store Sales: Flat-ish

• Restaurant-Level Margin: ~19.5%

• Adjusted EBITDA: ~$30M

Basically: If they build it, and you eat it, margins might follow.

👉 Want the full picture? Dive into Sweetgreen’s financials here.

🍋 The Bitter Bits (Risks)

1. Negative same-store sales: Less traffic, weaker product mix (?). 🍴➡️📉

2. Still losing money: $25M this quarter. That's a lot of kale.

3. Competitive salad bowl: Hello, CAVA, Sweet Tomatoes (RIP), Chipotle, and every “build-your-own-bowl” upstart—not to mention McDonald's and Chipotle(!).

4. Valuation ain’t necessarily cheap:

   • P/S: 2.27

   • P/B: 3.67

   • EV/Revenue: 2.53

Translation: You're paying for future health. Not current returns. As long as the Company loses money, the stock can always get cheaper 💸

💬 Verdict: Sweet or Sour?

Sweetgreen is a clean-eating powerhouse with branding magic—but the numbers haven’t yet caught up with the mission. This could be a healthy grower in time, but it’s still bleeding cash and fighting an uphill market.

🍽️ Advice?
Maybe try a small side salad (starter position). Don’t dive into the grain bowl head-first until the business model turns green for real.

Interested in another investment idea?
Check our take on UnitedHealth Group.

⚠️ Disclaimer:

We eat healthy but occasionally invest unhealthy. Even the crispest salad can wilt. Invest at your own risk. 🥬📉

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