Flowers Foods, Inc (NYSE: FLO) Stock Has Dropped -9.60% Over The Month – Is There Room For Growth?

Flowers Foods, Inc (NYSE:FLO)’s traded shares stood at 0.61 million during the latest session, with the company’s beta value hitting 0.33. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $16.53, to imply an increase of 0.21% or $0.03 in intraday trading. The FLO share’s 52-week high remains $24.25, putting it -46.7% down since that peak but still an impressive 0.6% since price per share fell to its 52-week low of $16.43.

Analysts have given a consensus recommendation of Hold for Flowers Foods, Inc (FLO), translating to a mean rating of 2.75. Of 1 analyst(s) looking at the stock, 0 analyst(s) give FLO a Sell rating. 0 of those analysts rate the stock as Overweight while 1 advise Hold as 0 recommend it as a Buy.

Flowers Foods, Inc (NYSE:FLO) trade information

After registering a 0.21% upside in the latest session, Flowers Foods, Inc (FLO) has traded red over the past five days. The 5-day price performance for the stock is -3.13%, and -9.60% over 30 days. With these gigs, the year-to-date price performance is -19.97%.

The extremes give us $20 and $25 for target low and target high price respectively. As such, FLO has been trading -51.24% off suggested target high and -20.99% from its likely low.

An assessment of the company’s 5-year growth patterns shows that annual earnings grew an estimated 8.55% for the past 5-year period. While 2025 is set for a -14.06% return in earnings, projections for the next 5 years are at -3.02% annually.

FLO Dividends

Flowers Foods, Inc has its next earnings report out in June. However, it is important to take into account that this dividend yield ratio is just an indicator to only serve the purpose of guidance. Investors interested to invest in the stock should ponder company’s other fundamental and operations related aspects too. Flowers Foods, Inc has a forward dividend ratio of 0.96, with the share yield ticking at 5.81% to continue the rising pattern observed over the past year.

The next major institution holding the largest number of shares is BLACKROCK INC. with 18.5 million shares, or about 8.7513% of shares outstanding. As of the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were worth $410.62 million.

We also have iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund as the top two Mutual Funds with the largest holdings of the Flowers Foods, Inc (FLO) shares. Going by data provided on Mar 31, 2025 , iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF holds roughly 6.4 shares. This is just over 3.03% of the total shares, with a market valuation of $106.33 million. Data from the same date shows that the other fund manager holds a little less at 5.97, or 2.83% of the shares, all valued at about 99.13 million.