Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO)

Zacks Rank 4-Sell, Recommend Neutral, Industry Rank 73 / 217, Target 26.70, Avg Target of 10 analysts 28.25
I think that I got in with an excellent price after a major drop on 11/11/09:

"Nov 11 (Reuters) - Flowers Foods Inc (FLO.N) posted quarterly sales below market estimates and cut its full-year outlook, as the baker's product prices came under pressure from intense promotional activity by competitors, sending its shares down 8 percent.

Flowers Foods, which competes with Sara Lee (SLE.N), George Weston (WN.TO) and Interstate Bakeries, introduced promotional pricing earlier this year to protect its market share."

dividend play, beaten down, consensus AS picks

This account tracks the less exciting stocks from my watch list - companies that are easy to understand with clean balance sheets and good track records in relatively straight-forward industries.

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Dividend play - 3.10%.
Lower Close Limit set at -20% of entry price.
All Member Percentage Bullish 97.2%.
All-Star Percentage Bullish 96.1%.

This stock still has a lot of growth left in it. It is fairly valued and it is a well run company that should do well going forward. People will buy bread and buns and donuts regardless of how well the economy is doing and this company is positioning itself to be a leader. Nice dividend is icing on the cake and the P/E looks reasonable especially considering the growth prospects going forward. It is a buy!

I think it is will be one of the protective stock

good management

Upthumb. Good cash flow, good growth rate. Low debt. Top pick at many firms but stock price hasen't taken off. Yet.

Mkt. Cap $2.133B. Recent Price: $23.00
52wk Range $21.70 - $32.68
PEG 1.94

This one is pretty much by the numbers. RoE and RoA are both in strong positive territory with RoE at 16.301 and RoA at 8.612. Historically FLO shows over 20% earnings growth over the past 5 years showing a history of paying attention.

Looking forward we see next quarter revenues estimated at $792.1M with sales growth estimated at 12.8% for the next year. EPS (ttm) is estimated at 1.171 with a Forward P/E of 16.47, $126.5M in cash on hand and a dividend yield of 2.6%.

P/S below 1. 12 month RS above 80, 6 month RS above 80, 3 month RS above 80, EPS QTR VS QTR above 20. Year VS Year above 20. Institutional ownership Increased in last year. So we have a bargain stock for more room to grow.

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Great management. Taking market share from struggling competitors.

Fllowers is a great, solid company that has been very successful!

In this troubled economy, consumers look to comfort foods. That means carbs! This bakery leader has them. They just acquired ButterKrust. Yum.

Theres a lot of peanut n jelly eaters, and brown baggers during a ression. Butterkrust bakery in Lakeland FL makes a lot of private label bread.

ITS A SELL