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Hostess Brands, Inc.

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Signs5 good1 warning1 severedetails ↓

Financials

SEC XBRL · annual
 FY22FY21FY20FY19FY18FY17
Revenue$1.36B$1.14B$1.02B$907.7M$850.4M$776.2M
Operating income$220.3M$200.7M$135.3M$136.1M$121.6M$234.0M
Net income$164.2M$119.3M$104.7M$4.3M$62.9M$223.9M
Total assets$3.49B$3.47B$3.37B$3.10B$3.01B$2.97B
Total liabilities$1.70B$1.75B$1.74B$1.52B$1.46B$1.49B
Equity$1.80B$1.72B$1.62B$1.49B$1.20B$1.13B
EPS (diluted)$1.19$0.86$0.51$0.04$0.61$2.13
Shares out.137.9M138.2M127.7M111.0M103.1M105.3M

Reported figures from the company's SEC filings (XBRL). Blank where a line item isn't cleanly tagged — never estimated.

Key ratios

from filings · FY2022
Operating margin
16.2%
Net margin
12.1%
Return on equity
9.1%
Return on assets
4.7%
Return on capital (ROCE)
6.7%
Liabilities / assets
48.5%
Debt / equity
0.94×
Book value / share
$13.03
Revenue growth (YoY)
18.9%
Net income growth (YoY)
37.6%

Computed from the company's own SEC figures — no market price, so these are facts, not a valuation. Book value per share is reported equity ÷ shares; it is not the stock price.

Financial health

forensic scores · FY2022
Altman Z″ (distress)
2.40grey zone
Accruals / assets
2.4%clean
Beneish M-Score
-2.42normal
Piotroski F-Score
7/9strong

Altman Z″is a textbook bankruptcy-distress score from book values only (>2.6 safe · 1.1–2.6 grey · <1.1 distress). Accruals = (net income − operating cash flow) ÷ assets; persistently high accruals are an earnings-quality red flag. Beneish M-Scoreis an eight-ratio screen comparing this year with last (M > −1.78 = elevated manipulation-risk screen, not proof). Piotroski F-Scorecounts how many of nine fundamental-health checks pass (shown as passed / applicable; we use operating margin and total liabilities as documented proxies where the exact input isn't XBRL-tagged). Computed from SEC filings — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Quality score

EDS Score
82
/ 100
Profitability 100Growth 100Catalyst 33Earnings quality 100Financial strength 75

Our own multi-factor score from free SEC data — profitability, growth, financial strength, earnings quality, and event/ownership catalysts. No market price and no licensed model: each axis is the share of source-backed checks it passes. Descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Signs

1 severe1 warning5 good
  • Filed a late-filing notice (Form NT) — missed an SEC deadline
  • Altman Z″ in the grey zone
  • Operating margin is positive
  • Revenue is growing year-over-year
  • Conservative leverage (liabilities < 50% of assets)
  • Positive operating cash flow
  • Clean earnings (low accruals)

Derived from the company's own SEC figures (fundamentals, forensic scores, filing discipline) — descriptive factors, not advice or a forecast.

Risk flags

late SEC filings

A Form NT means the company notified the SEC it would file a periodic report late — often an accounting, audit or liquidity warning sign. Also search SEC enforcement actions for this company.

Material events

SEC Form 8-K · most recent

Events the company reported on Form 8-K, labelled by the SEC item code it filed under — its own classification, not our interpretation.

Recent SEC filings

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