Is it safe?
Can FLO take a bad year?
Flowers Foods, Inc. carries $1.74B of net debt at 5.71× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$1.74B
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.71×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.22× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.94
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 2.31×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2025
- $1.76B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $12M
- Net debt
- $1.74B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $305M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $150M
- Debt / equity
- 1.35×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.75×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −72%
- Below its 52-week high
- −53%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.