Flowers Foods - FLO Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Flowers Foods in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "sell" FLO shares.
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1 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Flowers Foods' shares. Their FLO share price forecasts range from $27.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $27.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.9%.
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Flowers Foods' stock was trading at $28.74 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, FLO stock has decreased by 4.2% and is now trading at $27.53.
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Flowers Foods saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 30th, there was short interest totaling 5,690,000 shares, an increase of 12.9% from the December 15th total of 5,040,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 1,450,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.9 days. Currently, 2.9% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 9th 2023.
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Flowers Foods will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, February 10th at 8:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, November, 10th. The company reported $0.30 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.28 by $0.02. The company earned $1.16 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.14 billion. Flowers Foods had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 18.53% and a net margin of 4.66%.

Flowers Foods announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 18th. Investors of record on Friday, December 2nd will be given a dividend of $0.22 per share on Friday, December 16th. This represents a $0.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.20%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 1st.
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Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.19%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 20 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 86.27%. Payout ratios above 75% are not desirable because they may not be sustainable. Based on earnings estimates, FLO will have a dividend payout ratio of 67.18% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Flowers Foods issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Saturday, December, 10th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.25-$1.30 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.28. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.81 billion-$4.85 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.80 billion.

18 employees have rated Flowers Foods Chief Executive Officer Ryals McMullian on Glassdoor.com. Ryals McMullian has an approval rating of 76% among the company's employees.

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Flowers Foods trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "FLO."

Flowers Foods' stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Boston Trust Walden Corp (1.39%), Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC (0.62%), ProShare Advisors LLC (0.57%), DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale (0.52%), Thomasville National Bank (0.19%) and New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.17%). Insiders that own company stock include David V Singer, Heeth Iv Varnedoe, Melvin T Stith, Ryals Mcmullian and Thomas Caldecot Chubb III.
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Shares of FLO stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of FLO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $27.53.

Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) has a market capitalization of $5.81 billion and generates $4.71 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $206.19 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.02 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 8,900 workers across the globe.

Flowers Foods' mailing address is 1919 FLOWERS CIRCLE, THOMASVILLE GA, 31757. The official website for the company is www.flowersfoods.com. The company can be reached via phone at (229) 226-9110 or via fax at 229-225-3816.