NYSE:FLO - Flowers Foods Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Flowers Foods announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, November 15th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 29th will be paid a dividend of $0.19 per share on Friday, December 13th. This represents a $0.76 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 27th. View Flowers Foods' Dividend History.

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company reported $0.22 EPS for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.22. The business had revenue of $966.56 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $947.50 million. Flowers Foods had a net margin of 4.48% and a return on equity of 15.74%. The firm's revenue was up 4.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.23 earnings per share. View Flowers Foods' Earnings History.

Flowers Foods is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Flowers Foods.

Flowers Foods issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, November, 6th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.94-0.99 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.96. The company issued revenue guidance of $4.11-4.13 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $4.08 billion.

3 equities research analysts have issued 1-year target prices for Flowers Foods' shares. Their forecasts range from $16.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate Flowers Foods' share price to reach $19.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.6%. View Analyst Price Targets for Flowers Foods.

3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Flowers Foods in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating and 2 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Flowers Foods.

Headlines about FLO stock have trended very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Flowers Foods earned a media sentiment score of -3.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Flowers Foods.

Flowers Foods saw a increase in short interest during the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 10,070,000 shares, an increase of 13.8% from the December 15th total of 8,850,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 959,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 10.5 days. Approximately 5.2% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Flowers Foods' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Flowers Foods include Mondelez International (MDLZ), Tyson Foods (TSN), General Mills (GIS), Hershey (HSY), Hormel Foods (HRL), Kellogg (K), MCCORMICK & CO /SH (MKC), Conagra Brands (CAG), Campbell Soup (CPB), J M Smucker (SJM), Post (POST), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Seaboard (SEB), Lancaster Colony (LANC) and Sanderson Farms (SAFM).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Flowers Foods investors own include JinkoSolar (JKS), Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T), The Coca-Cola (KO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Altria Group (MO), Walmart (WMT), General Electric (GE), Procter & Gamble (PG) and Target (TGT).

Flowers Foods' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hamlin Capital Management LLC (0.86%), Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.65%), Thomasville National Bank (0.36%), Signature Wealth Management Group (0.07%), Cozad Asset Management Inc. (0.03%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.02%). Company insiders that own Flowers Foods stock include David M Roach and Debo Mukherjee. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Flowers Foods.

FLO stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Hamlin Capital Management LLC, FTB Advisors Inc., Cozad Asset Management Inc. and Bath Savings Trust Co. View Insider Buying and Selling for Flowers Foods.

FLO stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Boston Trust Walden Corp, Trinity Legacy Partners LLC, Thomasville National Bank, 6 Meridian, Huntington National Bank, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, AE Wealth Management LLC and Signature Wealth Management Group. View Insider Buying and Selling for Flowers Foods.

Shares of FLO can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FLO stock can currently be purchased for approximately $22.11.

Flowers Foods has a market capitalization of $4.68 billion and generates $3.95 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $157.16 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.94 on an earnings per share basis. Flowers Foods employs 9,200 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Flowers Foods.

The official website for Flowers Foods is http://www.flowersfoods.com/.

Flowers Foods' mailing address is 1919 FLOWERS CIRCLE, THOMASVILLE GA, 31757. The company can be reached via phone at 229-226-9110.