Plant-based food and beverage company SunOpta (NASDAQ: STKL) is expected to be reporting earnings next Friday after market close. Here’s what to look for.
SunOpta beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $205.4 million, up 16.6% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and full-year revenue guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting SunOpta’s revenue to grow 13% year on year, improving from the 8.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. SunOpta has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
Looking at SunOpta’s peers in the shelf-stable food segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. J. M. Smucker delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.5%, and Hormel Foods reported revenues up 1.3%, falling short of estimates by 1.5%. J. M. Smucker traded up 8.8% following the results while Hormel Foods was also up 1.1%.
Read our full analysis of J. M. Smucker’s results here and Hormel Foods’s results here.
AI fears in late 2025 triggered a rotation into safer assets, but the US-Iran conflict in spring 2026 shifted anxiety from disruption to geopolitical risk. While some of the shelf-stable food stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 10.2% on average over the last month. SunOpta’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $7.40 (compared to the current share price of $6.47).
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