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About Hostess Brands Inc
Hostess Brands, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and distributes snack products in the United States and Canada. The company provides a range of snack cakes, donuts, sweet rolls, breakfast pastries, cookies, snack pies, sweet baked goods, wafers, bread and buns, danishes, honey buns, coffee cakes, and sugar-free products. It offers its products under the Hostess, Dolly Madison, Cloverhill, Voortman, CupCakes, Twinkies, Donettes, Sno Balls, Ding Dongs, Zingers, Ho Hos, and Big Texas brands. The company was formerly known as Gores Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Hostess Brands, Inc. in November 2016. Hostess Brands, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. As of November 7, 2023, Hostess Brands, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The J. M. Smucker Company.
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- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Packaged Foods
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5 years, 6 months ago
Hostess Brands, Inc is currently in a long term uptrend where the price is trading 11.3% above its 200 day moving average.
From a valuation standpoint, the stock is 99.0% cheaper than other stocks from the Consumer Defensive sector with a price to sales ratio of 1.8.
Hostess Brands, Inc's total revenue rose by 18.2% to $256M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Its net income has increased by 8.7% to $24M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Finally, its free cash flow grew by 8.7% to $31M since the same quarter in the previous year.
Based on the above factors, Hostess Brands, Inc gets an overall score of 5/5.