Update shared on16 Oct 2025
Fair value Decreased 2.73%Analysts have slightly lowered their price target for Flowers Foods from $15.71 to $15.29, citing softer anticipated revenue growth and a modest reduction in projected profit margins.
What's in the News
- Chief Financial Officer Steve Kinsey will retire at the end of 2025 after 36 years with Flowers Foods. The company has started searching for his successor and expects Kinsey to serve in an advisory role after his retirement (Key Developments).
- Flowers Foods has lowered its earnings guidance for the 52-week Fiscal 2025, now projecting net sales of $5.239 billion to $5.308 billion. This represents growth of 2.7% to 4.0% over the prior year, which is lower than earlier expectations (Key Developments).
- Excluding the Simple Mills acquisition, revised net sales projections for 2025 indicate a decline of 1.6% to 0.4% compared to the prior year. This reflects more conservative estimates (Key Developments).
- The company has completed a share repurchase tranche, buying back 1,542,248 shares for $4.62 million between April and July 2025. In total, Flowers Foods has repurchased 73.3 million shares for $761.5 million since 2002 (Key Developments).
Valuation Changes
- Consensus Analyst Price Target has declined slightly from $15.71 to $15.29.
- Discount Rate remains unchanged at 6.78%.
- Revenue Growth estimate has edged down from 1.37% to 1.35%.
- Net Profit Margin projection has decreased from 4.03% to 3.99%.
- Future P/E ratio forecast has dropped modestly from 18.95x to 18.63x.
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