FLOWERS FOODS INC
FLOWERS FOODS INC (FLO) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
The counterintuitive part of Flowers Foods is the multiple. At about $7.78 the stock trades near 11 times company-wide operating income, low enough that the price sits below what even a steady decline in operating profit would warrant. The market is not pricing slow growth; it is pricing erosion. The business behind that price is one of the two largest packaged-bakery companies in the country, with brands like Nature's Own and Wonder, generating real free cash flow. But volumes have been fallin
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410 institutional managers reported holding FLO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 82% of the company; the top 10 hold 46%. 60 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 42.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 20% of shares outstanding (6.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
FLO's share count is about flat over the past five years ($120.83M of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (17 and counting); the current rate is $0.98 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $612.88M in dividends and $66.81M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at FLO over the trailing three years: 2023: 3 buys totaling $256k; 2024: 1 buy totaling $118k; 2025: 4 buys totaling $207k; 2026: 1 buy totaling $38k. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
FLO's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-02-23 | +0.6% | -3.7% |
| 2023-11-10 | -6.8% | +9.3% |
| 2024-02-22 | -5.1% | +8.3% |
| 2024-05-17 | -4.2% | -8.3% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
FLO's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-05 (items 5.02); 2026-06-02 (items 5.07); 2026-05-21 (items 2.02, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-04-07 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-03-30 (items 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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