The upward trend could come to support Flowers Foods in the coming sessions.
The group enjoys upward revisions in earnings per share and growth prospects. Indeed, the Thomson Reuters consensus expect sales to grow for the fiscal year at USD 3800 million compared to USD 3046 million for the previous year.
Flowers Foods is in an uptrend in the medium and long term, but the last bearish movement returns close to a major support level. This threshold, if preserved, will enable to enjoy the bullish movement.
The decline observed in the short term offers an interesting entry point for a short term investment. Investors will take advantage of the current area to buy Flowers Foods. The objectives will be set at USD 22.7 and by extension USD 24. The stop loss will be triggered below the USD 21.5 support.
Flowers Foods, Inc. is a producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States. The Company's products include breads, buns, rolls, snack items, bagels, English muffins, and tortillas and are sold under a variety of brand names, including Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread (DKB), Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, Tastykake, and Mrs. Freshley's. Its fresh baked foods customers include mass merchandisers, supermarkets and other retailers, restaurants, quick-serve chains, food wholesalers, institutions, dollar stores and vending companies. It supplies national and regional restaurants, institutions and foodservice distributors, and retail in-store bakeries with breads and rolls. It sells packaged bakery products to wholesale distributors for ultimate sale to food outlets. It sells packaged snack cakes primarily to customers who distribute them nationwide through multiple channels of distribution, including mass merchandisers, supermarkets, vending outlets and convenience stores.