Flowers Foods
FLO · Packaged Foods & Meats
$6.15
4.2%Post
POST · Packaged Foods & Meats
$80.56
1.8%The short version
- Post is the larger business, with $8.2B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $5.3B for Flowers Foods, about 1.6 times as much.
- Post kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (9.8% operating margin, against 3.3% operating margin).
- Post earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (5.7%, against 4.6%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Flowers Foods’s earnings: a P/E of 22.8x against 14.7x for Post.
| Latest fiscal year | FLO · FY25 | POST · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $1.3B | $4.1B |
| Revenue | $5.3B | $8.2B |
| Free cash flow | $319M | $488M |
| Net income | $83.8M | $336M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 3.0% | 3.0% |
| 5-year growth | 3.7% | 11.6% |
| Share count change | −0.0% | −6.0% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | — | 28.7% |
| Operating margin | 3.3% | 9.8% |
| Net margin | 1.6% | 4.1% |
| FCF margin | 6.1% | 6.0% |
| Return on capital | 4.6% | 5.7% |
| Return on equity | 6.2% | 8.6% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $1.7B | $7.3B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 5.1x | 5.5x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $215M | $709M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 22.8x | 14.7x |
| Piotroski F-score | 5 | 4 |
FY16
FLO $3.9B
POST $5.0B
FY17
FLO $3.9B
POST $5.2B
FY18
FLO $4.0B
POST $6.3B
FY19
FLO $4.1B
POST $5.7B
FY20
FLO $4.4B
POST $4.7B
FY21
FLO $4.3B
POST $5.0B
FY22
FLO $4.8B
POST $5.9B
FY23
FLO $5.1B
POST $7.0B
FY24
FLO $5.1B
POST $7.9B
FY25
FLO $5.3B
POST $8.2B
FLO
POST
FY16
FLO 6.8%
POST 10.9%
FY17
FLO 4.1%
POST 9.9%
FY18
FLO 5.4%
POST 9.2%
FY19
FLO 5.5%
POST 13.8%
FY20
FLO 7.3%
POST 11.4%
FY21
FLO 6.8%
POST 9.8%
FY22
FLO 6.3%
POST 7.1%
FY23
FLO 3.4%
POST 8.6%
FY24
FLO 6.8%
POST 10.0%
FY25
FLO 3.3%
POST 9.8%
FLO
POST
FY16
FLO $255M
POST $381M
FY17
FLO $222M
POST $196M
FY18
FLO $196M
POST $494M
FY19
FLO $263M
POST $414M
FY20
FLO $357M
POST $393M
FY21
FLO $209M
POST $397M
FY22
FLO $192M
POST $127M
FY23
FLO $220M
POST $447M
FY24
FLO $281M
POST $502M
FY25
FLO $319M
POST $488M
FLO
POST
FY16
FLO 8.9%
POST 6.6%
FY17
FLO 7.9%
POST 4.5%
FY18
FLO 7.9%
POST 6.4%
FY19
FLO 8.0%
POST 8.5%
FY20
FLO 11.7%
POST 4.8%
FY21
FLO 10.8%
POST 4.1%
FY22
FLO 10.8%
POST 4.4%
FY23
FLO 6.0%
POST 4.9%
FY24
FLO 10.9%
POST 6.2%
FY25
FLO 4.6%
POST 5.7%
FLO
POST
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