Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) Announces Earnings Results, Beats Estimates By $0.01 EPS

Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.21 by $0.01, Zacks reports. Flowers Foods had a return on equity of 19.41% and a net margin of 4.70%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.20 EPS. Flowers Foods updated its FY 2025 guidance to 1.180-1.280 EPS.

Flowers Foods Stock Performance

FLO stock traded down $0.34 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $19.00. 2,515,471 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 2,044,728. Flowers Foods has a 1-year low of $18.85 and a 1-year high of $26.12. The stock has a market capitalization of $4.00 billion, a PE ratio of 16.71, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.78 and a beta of 0.38. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $20.43 and a 200-day simple moving average of $21.89. The company has a current ratio of 1.24, a quick ratio of 0.95 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75.

Flowers Foods Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 13th. Shareholders of record on Friday, November 29th were issued a $0.24 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 29th. This represents a $0.96 annualized dividend and a yield of 5.05%. Flowers Foods’s dividend payout ratio is currently 84.21%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, StockNews.com lowered Flowers Foods from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 20th.

Flowers Foods Company Profile

Flowers Foods, Inc produces and markets packaged bakery food products in the United States. Its principal products include fresh breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, and tortillas, as well as frozen breads and rolls under the Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, Mrs.