Forensic Analysis · Retail / Consumer Discretionary · as of Oct 11, 2026
1 800 Flowers Com Inc (FLWS)
A forensic read on 1 800 Flowers Com Inc built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
F · Poor — capital at risk
Forensic grade
Distress
Financial health
-1.6
Distress distance
Clean
Earnings quality
2
Forensic signals
-1.9
P / E (ttm)
-93.8%
ROE
$251M
Market cap
0.00%
Dividend yield
-10.8%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence, going concern). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
1 800 Flowers Com Inc earns an F (Poor — capital at risk) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads -1.6, placing it in the Distress zone. 2 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by return on invested capital.
What the filings flag
-23.9%
FY2026
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is -23.9% in the latest fiscal year, against -0.2% in FY2024, having run between -30.8% and -0.2% across FY2024–FY2026 with no direction held. After-tax operating profit was ($2M) in FY2024 and ($100M) in FY2026, with operating income at -0.1% of revenue in FY2024, -12.2% in FY2025 and -8.5% in FY2026. The capital base behind it came down -36% across FY2024–FY2026, from $655M to $420M, so this return is struck on a smaller base than it started on. FY2026's operating profit carried a $35M goodwill write-off, a $12M restructuring charge and a $11M asset write-down that alone took about 10.8 points off that year's return, so about 10.8 of the 23.7-point fall across FY2024–FY2026 is that charge landing in the latest year rather than the capital earning less. FY2025's operating profit carried a $119M goodwill write-off, a $25M asset write-down and a $6M restructuring charge that alone took about 22.5 points off that year's return; FY2025 sits between the two ends of FY2024–FY2026, so the charge shapes the path between them without moving the change across it.
$154M
FY2025–FY2026
Goodwill impairments.Took $154M of goodwill writedowns across 2 years (FY2025 ($119M), FY2026 ($35M)). Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.50B
Revenue Growth YoY-10.8%
Revenue CAGR (2yr)-9.4%
Net Margin-9.0%
Free Cash Flow-$13.0M
Return on Equity-93.8%
Debt / Equity0.95x
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