Flowers Foods, Inc (NYSE: FLO) kicked off on Friday, down -0.87% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $20.63. Over the past 52 weeks, FLO has traded in a range of $20.51-$26.12.
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A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 5.27% annually for the last half of the decade. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 5.75%. With a float of $194.79 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $210.60 million.
In an organization with 9300 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 46.93%, operating margin of 7.13%, and the pretax margin is 6.21%.
Flowers Foods, Inc (FLO) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Packaged Foods Industry. The insider ownership of Flowers Foods, Inc is 7.50%, while institutional ownership is 69.93%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 02 ’24, was worth 117,750. In this transaction Director of this company bought 5,000 shares at a rate of $23.55, taking the stock ownership to the 20,330 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 11 ’24, when Company’s Chief Growth Officer sold 36,577 for $23.11, making the entire transaction worth $845,162. This insider now owns 42,740 shares in total.
Flowers Foods, Inc (FLO) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.4 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 5.75% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.16% during the next five years compared to -4.88% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Flowers Foods, Inc (NYSE: FLO) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Flowers Foods, Inc’s (FLO) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.79. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.83. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 16.71.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.13, a number that is poised to hit 0.21 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.31 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Flowers Foods, Inc (FLO)
Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 2.06 million. That was better than the volume of 1.22 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.06%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.41.
During the past 100 days, Flowers Foods, Inc’s (FLO) raw stochastic average was set at 2.56%, which indicates a significant decrease from 3.53% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 11.87% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.44% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $22.08, while its 200-day Moving Average is $22.87. However, in the short run, Flowers Foods, Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $20.66. Second resistance stands at $20.87. The third major resistance level sits at $21.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $20.30, it is likely to go to the next support level at $20.15. The third support level lies at $19.94 if the price breaches the second support level.
Flowers Foods, Inc (NYSE: FLO) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 4.27 billion has total of 210,598K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 5,091 M in contrast with the sum of 123,420 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 1,191 M and last quarter income was 64,980 K.
