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Flowers Foods, Inc.

FLO Research profile · latest available data

Price overview

$5.74

▼ -0.07 (-1.2%)

52w hi$12.06
52w lo$5.74
Vol8.24M
As of25 Sep 2026

The Verdict

Sell

Our score -0.54

Short-0.48
Medium-0.61
Long-0.51

computed 2026-09-27

Key fundamentals

Flowers Foods, Inc.

Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods

Market cap$1.22B
Enterprise value$3.17B
Trailing P/E22.08x
Forward P/E8.03x
EV / EBITDA6.51x
P / S (ttm)0.23x
Profit margin1.1%
Return on equity4.0%
Debt / equity151.70

Layer Breakdown

LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.10
Sector-0.01
Technical-0.42
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-09-27

Business overview

Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets packaged bakery food products in the United States. The company's principal products include fresh breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, tortillas, baking mixes, and frozen breads and rolls as well as snack items including bars, cakes, cookies, and crackers. The company offers its products under the Nature's Own, DKB, Canyon Bakehouse, Simple Mills, Wonder, and Tastykake brand names. It distributes its products through a direct-store-delivery distribution and a warehouse delivery system, as well as operates bakeries. The company's customers include national and regional restaurants, institutions and foodservice distributors, and retail in-store bakeries; wholesale distributors; mass merchandisers, supermarkets, vending outlets, and convenience stores; quick-serve chains, food wholesalers, institutions, dollar stores, and vending companies; and public health care, military commissaries, and prisons, and other governmental institutions. The company was formerly known as Flowers Industries and changed its name to Flowers Foods, Inc. in 2001. Flowers Foods, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia.

United States · www.flowersfoods.com

Risk Metrics

Beta vs SPX0.24
Corr SPX0.12
Annual vol31.8%
Annual ret-65.2%
Sharpe-2.05
Max DD-75.4%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Material Events

DateEvent8-K
2026-06-05Officer / Director Changeread
2026-06-02Shareholder Voteread
2026-05-21Earnings Release, Other Material Event…read
2026-04-07Material Agreement, Material Obligation…read
2026-03-30Officer / Director Change, Exhibitsread
2026-02-23Officer / Director Changeread
2026-02-12Earnings Release, Exhibitsread
2026-01-06Officer / Director Change, Exhibitsread
2025-11-19Officer / Director Change, Exhibitsread
2025-11-06Earnings Release, Exhibitsread
2025-10-21Officer / Director Change, Exhibitsread
2025-09-29Officer / Director Change, Exhibitsread

Insider Trades

DateInsiderRoleActionSharesValue
2026-06-15COURTNEY H MARKChief Brand OfficerGrant25.98K—
2026-06-08SCAGLIONE DIEGO ANTHONYChief Financial OfficerBuy5.00K$37.54K
2026-06-04Chubb Thomas Caldecot IIIOption exercise3.71K—
2026-05-29Chubb Thomas Caldecot IIIOption exercise9.35K—
2026-05-29LEWIS MARGARET GOption exercise9.35K—
2026-05-29Spainhour Sterling A Jr.Option exercise7.90K—
2026-05-29McFadden William JamesonOption exercise9.35K—

Flow & Concentration

Insider 180d net$37.54K
Insider buys / sells1 / 0
Insider biasNeutral
13F holders8
Top-5 share95.9%
HHI2,317 (moderate)

Top Holders

HolderValueShares
State Street Corp$69.17M8.76M
AQR Capital Management$56.60M7.16M
Capital Research / Capital World$38.25M4.84M
Fidelity / FMR LLC$29.39M3.72M
Citadel Advisors$10.36M1.31M
Renaissance Technologies$5.86M741.30K
Bridgewater Associates$2.86M362.45K
T. Rowe Price Group$2.39K302.60K

As of 2026-06-30

SEC Filings

DateFormDoc
2026-06-1811-Kview
2026-06-164view
2026-06-104view
2026-06-084view
2026-06-058-Kview
2026-06-028-Kview
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The Long Run

FY 2010–2025 · 16 years

LineLatestCAGRTrend
Revenue$5.26B+4.9%
Operating income$173.98M-1.1%
Net income$83.83M-2.5%
Cash from ops$446.20M+15.1%

Indices

S&P MidCap 400

Recent Sessions

DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Sep 25$5.81$5.87$5.62$5.748.24M
Sep 24$5.89$5.90$5.73$5.818.32M
Sep 23$5.91$5.97$5.74$5.818.51M
Sep 22$6.05$6.08$5.87$5.888.59M
Sep 21$5.90$6.07$5.85$5.967.90M

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