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Flowers Foods FLO

US equityMarket cap rank #3096Packaged Foods
$5.84 +$0.10 (+1.74%)
Pre-market · Oct 8, 8:20 am ET · After hours $5.83 -0.15%
Open$5.77
Prev close$5.74
Day range$5.77 – $6.05
Volume10.70M
Market cap$1.24B
P/E (TTM)22.5
Dividend yield14.86%

Ownership & positioning

Who holds it, who is betting against it, and where the big money is moving

Institutional ownership105.0%-0.09 pts vs. prior quarter
Institutions holding505-2 vs. prior quarter
Insider trades (recent)30 buys / 20 sellsNet buying
Short interest21.92% of floatDays to cover 5.6 · as of 15 Sep 2026
Short-sale volume share25.8%5-day average of daily volume

Short-sale volume as % of daily volume

20%24%28%31%Sep '26Sep '26Oct '26

Large-order net flow, last 20 sessions

Net of large-order buying minus selling, in USD. Over this window: +$2.32M (11 inflow days, 9 outflow days).

Net flow by order size, last 20 sessions

−$1.3MSuper+$3.6MBig+$2.6MMid+$579.9KSmall

Super/Big orders approximate institutional-size trades; Mid/Small approximate retail-size trades. Net buy minus sell value in each bucket, summed over the window.

The five largest holders on file together own 37.0% of shares outstanding.

Largest holders

  • BlackRock16.33%
  • Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC6.51%
  • Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, Inc.5.18%
  • Vanguard Capital Management, LLC4.81%
  • State Street Global Advisors4.13%
  • Quantinno Capital Management LP4.03%
  • Charles Schwab Investment Management3.87%
  • C. Wood3.68%

By investor type

  • Mutual Fund83.21%
  • Hedge Fund14.02%
  • Individual/Insider7.56%
  • Public Company3.30%
  • Private Company2.02%
  • Family Office/Trust1.07%
  • Government Pension Fund0.95%
  • Insurance Company0.42%

Reported short interest has held roughly steady near 21.92% of float over the last 6 biweekly reports (30 Jun 2026 to 15 Sep 2026).

Recent institutional activity

HolderTypePeriodShare changeNew stake
BlackRock Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +14,612,794 16.3%
Gotham Asset Management, LLC Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +6,174,229 3.1%
Quantinno Capital Management LP Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +5,146,378 4.0%
Vanguard Portfolio Management, LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +3,053,268 6.5%
Mirae Asset Global Investments Co., Ltd Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +2,997,995 2.2%
AQR Capital Management Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +2,757,970 3.3%
Invesco Capital Management LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +2,198,674 3.4%
Pine Valley Investments Limited Liability Company Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,987,882 0.9%
Magarian Capital Management, Llc Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,803,177 0.9%
FMR Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,717,880 1.1%
Eaton Vance Management Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,707,508 1.8%
Charles Schwab Investment Management Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,679,529 3.9%
Two Sigma Investments, LP Hedge Fund 2026/Q3 +1,551,906 1.1%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Public Company 2026/Q3 +1,536,554 1.1%
Strategic Advisers LLC Mutual Fund 2026/Q3 +1,347,638 0.6%

Institutional buy/sell activity by reporting period, largest moves first.

Insider transactions

DateInsiderTitleTransactionSharesPriceHeld after
14 Jun 2026 H. Courtney Chief Brand Officer Other Acquisition +25,980 – 131,496
7 Jun 2026 Diego Scaglione Chief Financial Officer Open Market Acquisition +5,000 $7.51 194,180
3 Jun 2026 Thomas Chubb Independent Director Derivative Sale to Issuer -18,550 – –
3 Jun 2026 Thomas Chubb Independent Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +3,710 – 58,921
28 May 2026 George Deese Independent Non-Executive Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +9,350 – 3,087,536
28 May 2026 James Spear Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 Edward Casey Independent Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +9,350 – 42,190
28 May 2026 Thomas Chubb Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 Thomas Chubb Independent Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +9,350 – 55,211
28 May 2026 Margaret Lewis Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 Margaret Lewis Independent Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +9,350 – 100,645
28 May 2026 Joanne Smith Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 Rhonda Gass Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 William McFadden Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 William McFadden Independent Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +9,350 – 652,487
28 May 2026 Sterling Spainhour Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
28 May 2026 Sterling Spainhour Director Derivative Exercise and Retained +7,900 – 7,900
28 May 2026 Brigitte King Independent Director Other Derivative Acquisition +22,260 – 22,260
31 Mar 2026 A. McMullian CEO & Chairman of Board Open Market Disposition -209,000 $8.03 2,387,098
24 Feb 2026 David Roach Chief Strategic Projects Officer Sale to Issuer -4,343 $9.65 178,206

From Form 4/Form 144 filings. Negative share counts are disposals (sales, gifts, or shares withheld for taxes); positive are acquisitions.

Short interest, by report

Report dateShares short% of floatDays to cover
15 Sep 2026 46,488,528 21.9% 5.6
31 Aug 2026 45,041,055 21.2% 6.1
14 Aug 2026 46,124,039 21.8% 9.3
31 Jul 2026 44,005,171 20.8% 8.6
15 Jul 2026 43,697,640 20.6% 8.5
30 Jun 2026 46,394,648 21.9% 4.4

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