Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) Stock Analysis
Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods
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... Read more
TrendMatrix rates Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) as Sell with moderate confidence. The stock trades at $8.28 with +16.3% upside to the $9.63 price target. Overall score: 6.1/10 across 10 analysis dimensions. Reward/risk ratio: 2.8:1.
Passes 3/5 gates (favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags). Fails on weak momentum and death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: aggressive.
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TrendMatrix rates Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) as Sell with moderate confidence. Score 6.1/10.
Take-profit target: $9.63 (+16.3% upside). Reward/risk ratio: 2.8:1. Stop-loss: $7.80.
V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=4.5); Consecutive earnings misses (2); Below 200-day MA.
Flowers Foods, Inc. trades at a P/E of 20.7 (forward 9.8). TrendMatrix value score: 8.7/10. Verdict: Sell.
13 analysts cover FLO with a consensus score of 2.5/5. Average price target: $11.
What does Flowers Foods, Inc. do?Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets packaged bakery food products in the United States. The company's principal...
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.