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FLOWERS FOODS INC FLO

Food and Kindred Products · CIK 0001128928 · Fiscal year ends 0102

Revenue
$5.26B
Fiscal year ended 2026-01-03
Operating income
$173.98M
Fiscal year ended 2026-01-03
Free cash flow
$319.09M
Fiscal year ended 2026-01-03

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$3.23BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-07-12
Float per share$15.29Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income38.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity2.5×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-07-12, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2026-01-03 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

38.6× earnings today, against a median of 24.2× across 10 years on record. Above its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-07-12$3.23B38.6×
2024-07-13$4.37B17.6×
2023-07-15$947.06M7.7×
2022-07-16$5.53B24.2×
2021-07-17$4.98B24.2×
2020-07-11$4.50B29.6×
2019-07-13$4.76B29.0×
2018-07-14$4.11B26.2×
2017-07-15$3.47B23.1×
2016-07-16$3.68B22.5×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Food and Kindred Products filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
R&D / revenue0.0%0th
Current ratio0.75x29th
Long-term debt / equity1.04x71th
Effective tax rate27.2%71th
CapEx / revenue2.4%33th
SBC / revenue0.6%36th
Net margin1.6%57th
Revenue YoY growth3.0%43th
FCF margin6.1%56th
Operating margin3.3%54th

FLOWERS FOODS INC (FLO) reported revenue of $5.26B and net income of $83.82M for the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from FLOWERS FOODS INC’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Food and Kindred Products.

Income

FLOWERS FOODS INC income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Revenue$5.26B$5.10B$5.09B$4.81B$4.33B$4.39B$4.12B$3.95B$3.92B$3.93B
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating income$173.98M$348.29M$172.87M$303.22M$294.92M$321.49M$225.43M$212.34M$161.00M$264.90M
Net income$83.82M$248.12M$123.42M$228.39M$206.19M$152.32M$164.54M$157.16M$150.12M$163.78M
Research & development$9.30K$5.10M$5.90M$6.10M$5.60M$4.00M$4.30M$4.90M$2.40M$3.00M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 212.11Mshares 212.14Mshares 213.36Mshares 213.23Mshares 213.03Mshares 212.34Mshares 211.97Mshares 211.63Mshares 210.44Mshares 210.35M
Pretax income$115.07M$328.94M$157.11M$298.71M$270.77M$200.71M$212.08M$197.16M$149.29M$249.54M
Income tax expense$31.24M$80.83M$33.69M$70.32M$64.58M$48.39M$47.54M$40.00M-$827.00K$85.76M
Diluted EPS$0.40$1.17$0.58$1.07$0.97$0.72$0.78$0.74$0.71$0.78
Selling, general & administrative$2.08B$2.00B$2.12B$1.85B$1.72B$1.69B$1.58B$1.51B$1.51B$1.47B
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

FLOWERS FOODS INC balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$12.10M$5.00M$22.53M$165.13M$185.87M$307.48M$11.04M$25.31M$5.13M$6.41M
Total assets$4.18B$3.40B$3.43B$3.31B$3.25B$3.32B$3.18B$2.85B$2.66B$2.76B
Current assets$729.09M$656.36M$687.71M$804.94M$746.12M$838.20M$553.92M$543.72M$507.19M$476.84M
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$976.16M$548.60M$659.15M$564.42M$519.92M$504.10M$528.14M$400.34M$393.95M$340.62M
Total equity incl. NCI$1.30B$1.41B$1.35B$1.44B$1.41B$1.37B$1.26B$1.26B$1.25B$1.21B
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$201.66M$171.90M$184.50M$168.70M$134.98M$125.23M$127.06M$122.62M$111.04M$110.88M
Accounts receivableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Goodwill$1.05B$679.90M$677.80M$545.24M$545.24M$545.24M$545.24M$545.38M$464.78M$465.58M
Long-term debt$1.36B$1.02B$1.05B$891.84M$890.61M$960.10M$862.78M$974.59M$820.14M$946.67M
Accounts payable$312.68M$260.71M$318.60M$343.38M$268.50M$225.92M$233.01M$242.08M$181.39M$173.10M

Cash flow

FLOWERS FOODS INC cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Operating cash flow$446.20M$412.66M$349.35M$360.89M$344.61M$454.46M$366.95M$295.89M$297.39M$356.56M
Capital expenditures$127.11M$132.09M$129.08M$169.07M$135.96M$97.93M$103.68M$99.42M$75.23M$101.73M
Investing cash flow-$943.16M-$172.67M-$403.81M-$151.09M-$191.44M-$73.99M-$97.09M-$301.80M-$35.40M-$76.71M
Financing cash flow$504.05M-$257.52M-$88.15M-$222.17M-$274.78M-$84.04M-$284.12M$26.09M-$263.28M-$287.82M
Net change in cashUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable-$121.60M$296.43M-$14.26M$20.18M-$1.28M-$7.97M
Stock-based compensation$32.31M$29.74M$26.94M$25.82M$21.34M$12.86M$7.43M$8.15M$16.09M$18.76M
Common dividends paid$209.31M$203.03M$195.22M$186.50M$175.90M$167.27M$159.99M$150.21M$140.98M$131.07M
Common share repurchases$5.50M$22.70M$45.80M$34.59M$9.51M$783.00K$7.05M$2.49M$2.67M$126.30M
Depreciation & amortization$167.43M$159.21M$151.71M$141.96M$136.56M$141.38M$144.23M$144.12M$146.72M$140.87M

Derived

FLOWERS FOODS INC derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2026-01-032024-12-282023-12-302022-12-312022-01-012021-01-022019-12-282018-12-292017-12-302016-12-31
Free cash flow$319.09M$280.58M$220.28M$191.82M$208.65M$356.54M$263.27M$196.47M$222.16M$254.84M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin3.3%6.8%3.4%6.3%6.8%7.3%5.5%5.4%4.1%6.7%
FCF margin6.1%5.5%4.3%4.0%4.8%8.1%6.4%5.0%5.7%6.5%
SBC / revenue0.6%0.6%0.5%0.5%0.5%0.3%0.2%0.2%0.4%0.5%
Current ratio0.75x1.20x1.04x1.43x1.44x1.66x1.05x1.36x1.29x1.40x
Revenue YoY growth3.0%0.2%5.9%11.0%-1.3%6.4%4.4%0.8%-0.2%Unavailable
Net margin1.6%4.9%2.4%4.8%4.8%3.5%4.0%4.0%3.8%4.2%
R&D / revenue0.0%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%0.1%
CapEx / revenue2.4%2.6%2.5%3.5%3.1%2.2%2.5%2.5%1.9%2.6%
Long-term debt / equity1.04xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate27.2%24.6%21.4%23.5%23.9%24.1%22.4%20.3%-0.6%34.4%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open FLO in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-20View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-21View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-25View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-15View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-16View SEC filing

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