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1-800-Flowers.com

FLWS on Nasdaq. 1-800-Flowers.com sells flowers, gift baskets, and food to customers and businesses. Market value $104m.

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Should I look at this?

Not a fit for our list right now

Why it could be worth it

Nothing stands out yet.

What to watch out for

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Cash yield
n/a

We could not compute this from the filings.

Price to profit
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
-4.2%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns -4 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 35 of 100. Price score: not known. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

Five years of cash, in billions

0.0
0.0
0.0
201620172018
Revenue
$1.2bn$1.2bn$1.2bn
Operating margin
3.7%3.9%3.6%
Debt to equity
n/an/an/a
Shares outstanding
n/an/an/a

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive2 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)3 of 9
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)No
  • Debt0.78× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsShrinking, 0.9% a year

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
11 September 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
6 August 2026

Who owns it

1 long-term investor we follow owns it, unchanged from 1 last quarter. 116 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

5 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 1 sold $22,503.

  • Feldman Jonathan J.
    President, BloomNet
    Sold
    Date
    21 November 2025
    Shares
    7,259
    Price
    $3.10
    Value
    $22,503

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 11 Sep 2026, plus 1 later 8-K.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

  • Sales have shrunk: 0.9% a year.

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The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
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