Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday. The company provided EPS guidance of 1.180-1.280 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 1.300. The company issued revenue guidance of $5.4 billion-$5.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $5.2 billion.

Flowers Foods Trading Down 1.4 %

Shares of Flowers Foods stock opened at $19.07 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.95, a current ratio of 1.24 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.75. Flowers Foods has a 12-month low of $18.85 and a 12-month high of $26.12. The company has a market capitalization of $4.02 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 16.72, a PEG ratio of 3.74 and a beta of 0.38. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $20.43 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $21.89.

Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, February 7th. The company reported $0.22 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.21 by $0.01. Flowers Foods had a net margin of 4.70% and a return on equity of 19.41%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.20 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that Flowers Foods will post 1.27 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Flowers Foods Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 13th. Stockholders of record on Friday, November 29th were issued a dividend of $0.24 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, November 29th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 5.04%. Flowers Foods’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 84.21%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

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

About Flowers Foods

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.