Packaged bakery food company Flower Foods (NYSE: FLO) will be reporting results this Thursday after the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

Flowers Foods met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.23 billion, up 3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Flowers Foods’s revenue to grow 10.7% year on year to $1.23 billion, a reversal from the 1.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.15 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.

Looking at Flowers Foods’s peers in the consumer staples segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tyson Foods delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.7%, and Cal-Maine reported a revenue decline of 19.4%, falling short of estimates by 3.2%. Tyson Foods’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Cal-Maine was down 4.6%.

Read our full analysis of Tyson Foods’s results here and Cal-Maine’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer staples segment, with share prices up 6% on average over the last month. Flowers Foods is up 11.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $13 (compared to the current share price of $11.90).

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