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Flowers Foods free cash flow FLO

Cash from operations less capital spending, by quarter and over the last twelve months, from 2009.

Last 12 months, to Jul 18, 2026
$306.1M
Latest quarter, Q2 FY26
$109.8M
+10% on a year earlier
Fiscal year 2025
$319.1M
+14% on the year before

Flowers Foods' free cash flow was $306.1M over the twelve months to Jul 18, 2026, down 20% on a year earlier.

In its latest quarter, Q2 FY26, it was $109.8M, up 10% on the same quarter a year before.

Over the five fiscal years to FY2025 it shrank 2% a year on average.

Free cash flow over time

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Fiscal year by fiscal year

Fiscal yearFree cash flowChange
FY2025$319.1M+14%
FY2024$280.6M+27%
FY2023$220.3M+15%
FY2022$191.8M−8%
FY2021$208.6M−41%
FY2020$356.5M+35%
FY2019$263.3M+34%
FY2018$196.5M−12%
FY2017$222.2M−13%
FY2016$254.8M+9%
FY2015$233.5M+1%
FY2014$230.2M+34%
FY2013$171.3M+14%
FY2012$149.6M+171%
FY2011$55.1M−73%

Each fiscal year is the twelve months to its fourth quarter.

Quarter by quarter

QuarterEndedFree cash flowOn a year earlierLast 12 months
Q2 FY26$109.8M+10%$306.1M
Q1 FY26$87.2M−21%$296.2M
Q4 FY25$78.6M−7%$319.1M
Q3 FY25$30.4M−66%$325.3M
Q2 FY25$100M+183%$383.5M
Q1 FY25$110.1M+53%$318.8M
Q4 FY24$84.8M+41%$280.6M
Q3 FY24$88.6M−11%$255.7M
Q2 FY24$35.4M−3%$266.9M
Q1 FY24$71.8M+199%$268.1M
Q4 FY23$60M+109%$220.3M
Q3 FY23$99.8M+29%$189M

Against its peers

Companies in Packaged Foods nearest Flowers Foods' size, closest first, today.

CompanyFree cash flow yield
FLOFlowers Foods23.5%
BRBRBellring Brands20.3%
JJSFJ&J Snack Foods5.9%
SENEASeneca Foods21.4%
MAMAMama's Creations2.9%
MZTIMarzetti6.9%
FRPTFreshpet2.0%
POSTPost15.6%
LWAYLifeway Foods−9.2%
INGRIngredion5.9%
CPBCAMPBELL'S11.0%
Peer median6.4%

Where Flowers Foods ranks

What the free cash flow tells you

Cash from operations minus capital spending. The cash the company could hand back or reinvest.

Seasonal and lumpy quarter to quarter. The TTM view is the one to trust.

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