Hostess Brands

American company
Organization business Q17068094
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 6 annual filings
Revenue
$1.36B
▲ 18.9% YoY FY2022
Net Income
$164.19M
▲ 37.6% YoY FY2022
Assets
$3.49B
▲ 0.7% YoY FY2022
EPS (diluted)
$1.19
▲ 38.4% YoY FY2022
$0.00$373.51M$747.01M$1.12B$1.49B FY2017: $776.19M · NI $223.90M (28.8% margin)FY2018: $850.39M · NI $142.05M (16.7% margin)FY2019: $907.67M · NI $4.30M (0.5% margin)FY2020: $1.02B · NI $104.68M (10.3% margin)FY2021: $1.14B · NI $119.30M (10.4% margin)FY2022: $1.36B · NI $164.19M (12.1% margin) '17'18'19'20'21'22
Revenue Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2022-12-31 · accession 0001644406-23-000013

Hostess Brands

Summary

Hostess Brands is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (836 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hostess Brands is in the country of US[3].
  • Hostess Brands's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Hostess Brands's instance of is recorded as public company[5].
  • Hostess Brands is owned by C. Dean Metropoulos[6].
  • Hostess Brands's headquarters location is recorded as Kansas City[7].
  • Hostess Brands's Commons category is recorded as Hostess Brands[8].
  • Hostess Brands's stock exchange is recorded as Nasdaq[9].
  • Hostess Brands's industry is recorded as food industry[10].
  • 2013 marks the founding of Hostess Brands[11].
  • Hostess Brands's official website is recorded as http://www.hostessbrands.com[12].
  • Hostess Brands's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hostess Brands[13].
  • Hostess Brands's legal form is recorded as HZEH[14].
  • Hostess Brands's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+109678'}[15].
  • Hostess Brands's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+111786'}[16].
  • Hostess Brands's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+114337'}[17].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300SW7FLS4O41LD19[18]

  • Registered legal name: Hostess Brands, LLC[19]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[20]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[21]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): HZEH[22]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[23]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[24]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-02-28[25]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[26]

  • LEI next renewal: 2022-12-06[27]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[28]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[29]

  • Authority entity ID: 5280076[30]

  • Other names: New Hb Acquisition, LLC[31]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[32]

Body

Founding

2013 marks the founding of Hostess Brands[11].

Operations

Hostess Brands's headquarters location is recorded as Kansas City[7].

Industry

Hostess Brands's industry is recorded as food industry[10].

Ownership

Hostess Brands is owned by C. Dean Metropoulos[6]. Its stock exchange is recorded as Nasdaq[9].

Why It Matters

Hostess Brands ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (836 views/month).[2] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [19] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [20] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [21] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [22] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [23] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [24] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [25] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [26] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [27] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [28] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [29] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [30] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [31] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [32] . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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