The Bid & Ask

Quotations, Dispatches, and the Daily Tape

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Subject of the day

FLO

Concerning the House

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

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%
Quotation

$7.53

+0.36 (+5.0%)

52w hi$15.42
52w lo$6.90
Vol4.86M
As ofAug 13
The Verdict

Sell

Our score -0.69

Short-0.66
Medium-0.83
Long-0.49

computed 2026-08-13

By the Numbers

Flowers Foods, Inc.

Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods

Market cap$1.60B
Enterprise value$2.73B
Trailing P/E21.51x
Forward P/E9.16x
EV / EBITDA5.34x
P / S (ttm)0.30x
Profit margin1.4%
Return on equity5.4%
Revenue growth+6.8%
Earnings growth
Debt / equity111.01
Risk Metrics
Beta vs SPX0.25
Corr SPX0.13
Annual vol31.1%
Annual ret-50.4%
Sharpe-1.62
Max DD-70.5%

Window: 504 trading days (504 obs)

Layer Breakdown
LayerRawContribution
Fundamental+0.17
Sector+0.02
Technical-0.41
Earnings+0.00
Sentiment+0.00

macro × 1.00 · 2026-08-13

Recent Sessions
DateOpenHighLowCloseVol
Aug 13$7.25$7.58$7.25$7.534.86M
Aug 12$7.18$7.19$7.03$7.174.80M
Aug 11$7.13$7.31$7.08$7.164.72M
Aug 10$7.35$7.44$7.09$7.145.06M
Aug 7$7.25$7.46$7.23$7.403.70M