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Flowers Foods Inc. (FLO)

As-reported financials and SEC filings for Flowers Foods Inc. The latest annual period is FY2025. The latest reported quarter is Q2 FY2026. Financial statements come straight from the company’s EDGAR filings; valuation figures such as P/E and market cap use market data.

About Flowers Foods Inc.

Flowers Foods Inc is a producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States. The company offers products including breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, tortillas, and baking mixes under various brand names such as Nature’s Own, Dave’s Killer Bread, and Simple Mills. Flowers Foods serves retail consumers nationwide and focuses on expanding its branded portfolio through innovation, market expansion, and acquisitions.

Snapshot

Revenue
$5.26B
Revenue growth (YoY)
3.0%
Net income
$83.8M
Diluted EPS
$0.40
Gross margin
—
Operating margin
3.3%
Net margin
1.6%
FCF margin
6.1%
ROE
6.4%
net income / fiscal-year-end equity
P/E
22.1×
trailing when available, otherwise FY EPS
Market cap
$1.27B
Long-term debt / equity
1.04×
non-current term debt only

Fundamentals are from SEC filings for FY2025, the latest annual period (ended January 3, 2026). P/E and market cap are derived from stored market prices, last retrieved on a rolling basis and typically within the past week.

What changed at Flowers Foods

  • Revenue grew 3.0% to $5.3B in FY2025, faster than the 0.2% the year before.
  • Operating margin is 3.3% in FY2025, -3.5 pp against 6.8% in FY2020.
  • Most recent quarter Q2 FY2026: revenue $1.2B, down 4.0% from Q2 FY2025.
  • Free cash flow was $319M in FY2025, 6.1% of revenue.
  • Net income fell 66.2% to $84M in FY2025.

Computed from the as-reported figures in the statements below. A change we cannot state from filed figures is left out rather than estimated.

Peer comparison

Where Flowers Foods’s fundamentals sit among the 131 Consumer Staples companies. Each figure is ranked only against peers that report it, from lowest (left) to highest (right).

Operating margin3.3%
41st percentile of 117
Net margin1.6%
44th percentile of 121
FCF margin6.1%
60th percentile of 114
Revenue growth (YoY)+3.0%
48th percentile of 127
ROE6.4%
49th percentile of 114
P/E22.1×
54th percentile of 77
Long-term debt / equity1.04×
77th percentile of 82
Short interest5.33d
73rd percentile of 129

No reported insider purchases (code P) in the last 90 days; 1 insider sale totaling $25,937. For context, about 15% of companies in the universe saw any reported insider purchase (code P) in the same window. Browse insider activity →

Percentiles describe where a figure sits among sector peers reporting it (100th = highest). They are position within a peer group, not a rating, and not investment advice. Short interest ranking uses days to cover from FINRA Consolidated Short Interest data; FINRA is the owner and source of that data, included at no additional charge.

Institutional ownership

Held by 2 of the superinvestors we track (plus 4 quant / multi-strat books), based on each investor’s most recent 13F; periods vary by investor (newest: Q2 2026).

Conviction investors
2
+4 quant / multi-strat
Initiated / added
4
0 new, 4 added
Reduced / exited
4
2 trimmed, 2 exited
Combined position
$146.1M
reported long value
InvestorAs ofPosition valueSharesChange
AQR Capital ManagementquantQ2 2026$56.6M7.2MAdded
Gotham Asset ManagementQ2 2026$52.5M6.7MAdded
Two Sigma InvestmentsquantQ2 2026$19.1M2.4MAdded
Citadel AdvisorsquantQ2 2026$9.1M1.2MReduced
Renaissance TechnologiesquantQ2 2026$5.9M741.3KReduced
Bridgewater AssociatesQ2 2026$2.9M362.5KAdded

No longer held by: Millennium Management (as of Q2 2026), Point72 Asset Management (as of Q2 2026)

From quarterly Form 13F filings, which can be up to 45 days delayed. Long US-listed positions only: excludes short positions, options, cash, bonds, and non-US holdings, so this is not a manager’s complete portfolio. Counts are of the investors we track, not all institutions. Not investment advice.

Recent insider activity

Non-derivative buys and sells (codes P/S) reported by officers, directors and 10% owners on SEC Form 4.

Buys (90d)
0
code P
Bought (90d)
—
code P value
Sells (90d)
1
$26K
Reported activity
Net selling
by $ value, 90d
Trade dateInsiderTypeSharesPriceValue
2026-10-08
filed 2026-10-13
Cindy CoxChief Human Resources OfficerSell4.4K$5.89$26K
2026-06-08
filed 2026-06-10
Diego Anthony ScaglioneChief Financial OfficerBuy5.0K$7.51$38K

Reported non-derivative purchases and sales (codes P/S), which may be open-market or private. Excludes option exercises, grants, and shares withheld for taxes. Dates shown are the trade date; a Form 4 can be filed days to years later. A sale can be routine (e.g. a pre-set 10b5-1 plan), so read individual transactions in context. From SEC Form 4. Not investment advice.

Short interest

Total shares sold short as of each twice-monthly FINRA settlement. Rising short interest means more investors are positioned against the stock; days to cover estimates how many trading days of average volume that position represents.

Shares short
44.8M
settled 2026-09-30
Change vs prior
-3.6%
vs previous settlement
Days to cover
5.33
at avg daily volume
Avg daily volume
8.4M
FINRA reported
SettlementShares shortChangeDays to cover
2026-09-3044.8M-3.6%5.33
2026-09-1546.5M+3.2%5.64
2026-08-3145.0M-2.4%6.09
2026-08-1446.1M+4.8%9.28
2026-07-3144.0M+0.7%8.62
2026-07-1543.7M-5.8%8.45
2026-06-3046.4M+10.1%4.39
2026-06-1542.1M+14.2%6.50

Source: FINRA Consolidated Short Interest. FINRA is the owner and source of the FINRA-supplied data, which is included at no additional charge for your own personal or professional use; republishing or redistributing it is not permitted. Settlement dates are shown; FINRA publishes each settlement about nine business days later, so the latest figure can be two to four weeks old. Not presented as a percentage of float. No FINRA endorsement of this product is implied. Not investment advice.

Income statement (as reported)

 FY2025FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Revenue$5.26B$5.10B$5.09B$4.81B$4.33B
Gross profit—————
Operating income$174.0M$348.3M$172.9M$303.2M$294.9M
Net income$83.8M$248.1M$123.4M$228.4M$206.2M
Diluted EPS$0.40$1.17$0.58$1.07$0.97

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Balance sheet (as reported)

 FY2025FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Cash and equivalents$12.1M$5.0M$22.5M$165.1M$185.9M
Current assets$729.1M$656.4M$687.7M$804.9M$746.1M
Total assets$4.18B$3.40B$3.43B$3.31B$3.25B
Current liabilities$976.2M$548.6M$659.2M$564.4M$519.9M
Long-term debt$1.36B$1.02B$1.05B$891.8M$890.6M
Total liabilities
Total equity$1.30B$1.41B$1.35B$1.44B$1.41B

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Cash flow (as reported)

 FY2025FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Operating cash flow$446.2M$412.7M$349.4M$360.9M$344.6M
Capital expenditure$127.1M$132.1M$129.1M$169.1M$136.0M
Free cash flow

Figures as reported to the SEC. Underlined values link to the filing they came from; dotted values are calculated by us from reported figures; “adj” means restated for a stock split (tap or hover a figure to see how it was calculated or what was filed). Full details: where the numbers come from.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueRevenue YoYNet incomeDiluted EPS
Q2 FY2026$1.19B-4.0%$40.7M$0.19
Q4 FY2025—
Q3 FY2025$1.23B—$39.5M$0.19
Q2 FY2025$1.24B—$58.4M$0.28
Q4 FY2023-1.6%
Q3 FY2023$1.19B-0.7%$65.0M$0.31
Q2 FY2023$1.22B-0.2%$67.0M$0.32
Q4 FY20224.3%

Latest 8 quarters, from company XBRL filings on SEC EDGAR. A dotted underline marks a fourth-quarter figure we calculated from the full year and the first nine months. Revenue YoY is our calculation too: each quarter against the same quarter a year earlier.

Company facts

ExchangeNYSE
SectorConsumer Staples
SIC industryFood and Kindred Products
Latest annual periodFY2025 (ended January 3, 2026)
Latest reported quarterQ2 FY2026 (ended July 18, 2026)
Oldest indexed filing2013
SEC CIK1128928

Selected SEC filings

10-Q2026-08-20
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10-Q2026-05-21
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8-K2026-08-28
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8-K2026-08-20
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8-K2026-06-05
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8-K2026-06-02
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Data sourced from SEC EDGAR. Figures are as-reported and may be unaudited or restated; verify against the source filing before relying on them. Informational only. Not investment advice.