Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE:FLO) does about 1.23M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1022080 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 5.26B USD. Its current market price is $24.90, marking a decrease of -0.40% compared to the previous close of $25.00. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $29.10 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $19.64.
Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) has a 20-day trading average at $24.06 and the current price is -14.43% off the 52-week high compared with 26.78% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $23.40 and its 200-day simple moving average is $22.82. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 1.50%, which increases to 1.52% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 66.55 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $24.16, suggesting that the stock has a potential downside of -3.06% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on March 01, 2024 when DA Davidson initiated the stock to “Neutral” and issued a price target of $24. Deutsche Bank upgraded the stock to “Hold” from Sell on March 03, 2023 at a price target of $27. Deutsche Bank downgraded its price target at $28-$27.
Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) stock is up 1.14% over the week and 6.87% over the past month. Its price is 10.62% year-to-date and -11.83% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to shrink -3.06 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 4.68% and return on equity of 8.83%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 43.09 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 19.00. The beta has a value of 0.39. Price to book ratio is 3.88 and price to sales ratio is 1.03.
