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SunOpta Inc. (STKL)

Consumer Defensive | Beverages - Non-Alcoholic | Eden Prairie, United States | NasdaqGS
6.50 USD +0.01 (0.077%) ⇧ (April 21, 2026, 10:54 a.m. EDT)

Short-term: ★★★★★ | Long-term: ☆☆☆☆☆ | Dividends: ☆☆☆☆☆
Hot Take | April 19, 2026, 12:10 a.m. EDT

The high-conviction short-term rating is driven by the imminent resolution of a near-off-market buyout deal at $6.50–$8.00. The options data confirms a market consensus that STKL will remain above $4.00 while waiting for the deal to close, creating a scenario where a 20%+ upside move to lock in the buyout premium is priced in moments before the announcement finalizes. Long-term fundamentals are irrelevant (rating 0) as the current shareholders are effectively 'selling' the company via a takeover rather than holding for earnings, erasing any multi-year equity value calculations.

Model Selection — Backtest MAE (log-scale, lower is better)
ModelMAE
MSTL ✓0.264918
AutoARIMA0.265446
AutoETS0.265447
AutoTheta0.265516

Forecast horizon: 45 days | Selected: MSTL

Forecast Reliability
Score 37%
H-stat 1.77
Ljung-Box p 0.000
Jarque-Bera p 0.000
Excess Kurtosis 2.89
Attribute Value
Sector Consumer Defensive
Debt to Equity Ratio 200.06
Revenue per Share 6.932
Market Cap 770,380,160
Trailing P/E 49.96
Forward P/E 30.64
Beta 1.03
Profit Margins 1.93%
Website https://www.sunopta.com

As of April 19, 2026, 12:10 a.m. EDT: Calls show strong bullish sentiment concentrated in the $7.00 calls for May expiration (Top OI) and significant OTM positioning, cueing a move to $8.00+. Conversely, Put data reveals a massive defensive wall of $4.00 Put Open Interest (337 contracts) created on the $150M€500k floor, suggesting a 'put wall' created to define downside protection at a discount to the current price. The extreme disparity in put volume vs call volume (426M put dollars vs lower call premiums) indicates a capped downside scenario for speculators willing to risk a squeeze above the current price, while the $6.50 buyout target aligns perfectly with the near-term technical breakout.


Info Dump

Attribute Value
52 Week Change 0.5867971
Address1 7,078 Shady Oak Road
All Time High 17.07
All Time Low 0.0625
Ask 6.5
Ask Size 104
Audit Risk 8
Average Daily Volume10 Day 707,160
Average Daily Volume3 Month 2,771,581
Average Volume 2,771,581
Average Volume10Days 707,160
Beta 1.029
Bid 5.57
Bid Size 1
Board Risk 2
Book Value 1.444
City Eden Prairie
Compensation As Of Epoch Date 1,735,603,200
Compensation Risk 6
Country United States
Crypto Tradeable 0
Currency USD
Current Price 6.495
Current Ratio 1.18
Custom Price Alert Confidence HIGH
Date Short Interest 1,774,915,200
Day High 6.5
Day Low 6.49
Debt To Equity 200.06
Display Name SunOpta
Earnings Call Timestamp End 1,762,381,800
Earnings Call Timestamp Start 1,762,381,800
Earnings Timestamp 1,772,654,400
Earnings Timestamp End 1,778,180,400
Earnings Timestamp Start 1,778,180,400
Ebitda 88,153,000
Ebitda Margins 0.1078
Enterprise To Ebitda 13.106
Enterprise To Revenue 1.413
Enterprise Value 1,155,352,064
Eps Current Year 0.21
Eps Forward 0.212
Eps Trailing Twelve Months 0.13
Esg Populated 0
Exchange NMS
Exchange Data Delayed By 0
Exchange Timezone Name America/New_York
Exchange Timezone Short Name EDT
Fifty Day Average 6.4556
Fifty Day Average Change 0.0394001
Fifty Day Average Change Percent 0.006103244
Fifty Two Week Change Percent 58.67971
Fifty Two Week High 6.94
Fifty Two Week High Change -0.44500017
Fifty Two Week High Change Percent -0.06412106
Fifty Two Week Low 3.32
Fifty Two Week Low Change 3.175
Fifty Two Week Low Change Percent 0.9563253
Fifty Two Week Range 3.32 - 6.94
Financial Currency USD
First Trade Date Milliseconds 506,615,400,000
Float Shares 78,341,536
Forward Eps 0.212
Forward P E 30.636793
Free Cashflow -6,337,125
Full Exchange Name NasdaqGS
Full Time Employees 1,331
Gmt Off Set Milliseconds -14,400,000
Governance Epoch Date 1,775,001,600
Gross Margins 0.14821
Gross Profits 121,197,000
Has Pre Post Market Data 1
Held Percent Insiders 0.0152900005
Held Percent Institutions 0.97445
Implied Shares Outstanding 118,611,263
Industry Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
Industry Disp Beverages - Non - Alcoholic
Industry Key beverages-non-alcoholic
Is Earnings Date Estimate 1
Language en-US
Last Fiscal Year End 1,767,398,400
Long Business Summary SunOpta Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of plant and fruit-based food and beverage products in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers plant-based beverage products, including oat, almond, soy, coconut, rice, hemp, and other nut, grain, seed, and legume based beverages under the Dream and West Life brands names; oat-based creamers under the SOWN brand name; ready-to-drink protein shakes; packaged teas and concentrates; meat and vegetable broths and stocks; and nut, grain, seed, and legume-based beverages. It also provides plant-based ingredients, such as oatbase and soybase; fruit based snacks, including fruit bars, bits, twists, strips, pressed bars, and strips; conventional and organic broth and stock; liquid packaged and bulk tea concentrate; and liquid ingredients for internal use and for sale to other food and beverage manufacturers. It sells its products through various distribution channels, including foodservice operators, grocery retailers and club stores, branded food companies, and food manufacturers, as well as e-commerce channels. The company was formerly known as Stake Technology Ltd. and changed its name to SunOpta Inc. in October 2003. SunOpta Inc. was incorporated in 1973 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Long Name SunOpta Inc.
Market us_market
Market Cap 770,380,160
Market State REGULAR
Max Age 86,400
Message Board Id finmb_305082
Most Recent Quarter 1,767,398,400
Net Income To Common 15,593,000
Next Fiscal Year End 1,798,934,400
Non Diluted Market Cap 766,840,628
Number Of Analyst Opinions 5
Open 6.49
Operating Cashflow 49,661,000
Operating Margins 0.06669
Overall Risk 3
Payout Ratio 0.0
Peg Ratio 0.48
Phone 952 820 2518
Previous Close 6.49
Price Eps Current Year 30.928572
Price Hint 2
Price To Book 4.4979224
Price To Sales Trailing12 Months 0.9421133
Profit Margins 0.01928
Quick Ratio 0.412
Quote Source Name Nasdaq Real Time Price
Quote Type EQUITY
Recommendation Key none
Region US
Regular Market Change 0.0050001144
Regular Market Change Percent 0.076984055
Regular Market Day High 6.5
Regular Market Day Low 6.49
Regular Market Day Range 6.49 - 6.5
Regular Market Open 6.49
Regular Market Previous Close 6.49
Regular Market Price 6.495
Regular Market Time 1,776,783,285
Regular Market Volume 48,976
Return On Assets 0.04458
Return On Equity 0.09019
Revenue Growth 0.13
Revenue Per Share 6.932
Sand P52 Week Change 0.34445214
Sector Consumer Defensive
Sector Disp Consumer Defensive
Sector Key consumer-defensive
Share Holder Rights Risk 2
Shares Outstanding 118,372,041
Shares Percent Shares Out 0.0228
Shares Short 2,693,741
Shares Short Previous Month Date 1,772,150,400
Shares Short Prior Month 2,228,786
Short Name SunOpta, Inc.
Short Percent Of Float 0.025999999
Short Ratio 1.53
Source Interval 15
State MN
Symbol STKL
Target High Price 8.0
Target Low Price 6.5
Target Mean Price 7.4
Target Median Price 8.0
Total Cash 169,000
Total Cash Per Share 0.001
Total Debt 372,151,008
Total Revenue 817,715,008
Tradeable 0
Trailing Annual Dividend Rate 0.0
Trailing Annual Dividend Yield 0.0
Trailing Eps 0.13
Trailing P E 49.96154
Trailing Peg Ratio None
Triggerable 1
Two Hundred Day Average 5.52265
Two Hundred Day Average Change 0.9723501
Two Hundred Day Average Change Percent 0.17606586
Type Disp Equity
Volume 48,976
Website https://www.sunopta.com
Zip 55,344