Packaged bakery food company Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO) will be reporting results this Thursday after the bell. Here’s what to expect.
Flowers Foods met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.23 billion, up 11% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Flowers Foods’s revenue to grow 1.1% year on year, a reversal from the 1.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.
Looking at Flowers Foods’s peers in the perishable food segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Freshpet delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 13.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.2%, and Tyson Foods reported revenues up 4.4%, topping estimates by 1%. Freshpet traded down 7.1% following the results while Tyson Foods was up 7.5%.
Read our full analysis of Freshpet’s results here and Tyson Foods’s results here.
AI disruption fears rattled software and crypto through late 2025, but in spring 2026 the focus shifted to geopolitical risk, oil supply, and global stability. While some of the perishable food stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 6.1% on average over the last month. Flowers Foods is down 17.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $9.50 (compared to the current share price of $7.23).
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