FLOFlowers Foods, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -78% · now 53% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can FLO take a bad year?
Flowers Foods, Inc. carries $1.63B of net debt at 5.21× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.21×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.29× 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
- 2.10×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.69B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $53M
- Net debt
- $1.63B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $314M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $157M
- Debt / equity
- 1.27×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.38×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- 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.