Hostess Brands, Inc.
Cash in trust
—
Not yet disclosed
Trust per share
$10.00
Redemption value
IPO
Aug 2015
$375M raised
Combination deadline
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Not disclosed
Filings on record
685
Latest Feb 9, 2024
Business combination
- Target
- Not disclosed in an indexed filing
- Announced
- Jul 28, 2016
- Closed
- Nov 8, 2016
Overview
Hostess Brands, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001644406. It completed its initial public offering in Aug 2015, raising $375M in gross proceeds. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
Reading the filings
Arithmetic on what Hostess Brands, Inc. has disclosed, written the way a desk would read it. These are observations, not a rating. Nothing here scores the vehicle or implies a view on it.
Trust versus the $10 unit
The trust holds $10.00 per public share, effectively the $10.00 the units were sold at, so little or no interest has accrued to the account yet.
News on Hostess Brands, Inc.
Last 90 daysNothing in the last 90 days that names this vehicle. We attribute a story only when the release carries the ticker or the registered name, so an empty section means no press release or wire story matched — not that nothing was published. The filings below are the primary record either way.
SEC filing history
Free tier: filings older than 24 hours- SC 13G/A
Amended beneficial ownership report (passive)
Accession 0000354204-24-002989
- 15-12G
Deregistration of securities
Accession 0001193125-23-280211
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-23-003244
- EFFECT
Notice of effectiveness
Accession 9999999995-23-003243
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020213
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020211
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020210
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020208
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020207
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020204
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020202
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020199
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020198
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020195
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020193
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020192
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020190
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020189
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020185
- 4
Statement of changes in beneficial ownership
Accession 0000899243-23-020184
- S-8 POS
S-8 POS
Accession 0001193125-23-272425
- S-8 POS
S-8 POS
Accession 0001193125-23-272422
- S-8 POS
S-8 POS
Accession 0001193125-23-272418
- POS AM
POS AM
Accession 0001193125-23-272417
- SC 13D/A
SC 13D/A
Accession 0001104659-23-115229
- POS AM
POS AM
Accession 0001193125-23-272411
- 8-K
Completion of an acquisition; Notice of delisting or failure to satisfy a listing rule
Items 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 9.01 · Accession 0001193125-23-272309
- SC 14D9/A
SC 14D9/A
Accession 0001193125-23-272301
- SC TO-T/A
SC TO-T/A
Accession 0001193125-23-272289
- 25-NSE
Notification of delisting
Accession 0001354457-23-000812
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Hostess Brands, Inc.: questions answered
What is Hostess Brands, Inc.?
Hostess Brands, Inc. is a special purpose acquisition company incorporated in Delaware and registered with the SEC under CIK 0001644406. It completed its initial public offering in Aug 2015, raising $375M in gross proceeds. Business combination closed; the company trades under a new ticker.
How much does Hostess Brands, Inc. hold in trust?
No trust balance has been disclosed in a filing we have indexed for Hostess Brands, Inc.. For a newly priced IPO this is normal: the figure first appears in the quarterly report after closing.
When must Hostess Brands, Inc. complete a merger?
No combination deadline appears in the filings we have indexed. The date is stated in the charter and repeated in each quarterly report; where our parser could not establish it with confidence we leave it blank rather than infer one.
What happens if Hostess Brands, Inc. does not find a target in time?
The charter requires the vehicle to redeem 100% of the public shares and return the trust, pro rata, to public shareholders. That is the mechanism working as designed rather than a default. Founder shares and warrants are worthless in that outcome, which is why the sponsor's incentive is to get a deal done or to buy more time. Across the market, deadline lapsed without a deal; trust returned to public shareholders.
Can I redeem shares in Hostess Brands, Inc., and at what price?
Public shareholders may elect to redeem in connection with a combination vote and at each extension vote, at the pro-rata trust value on the relevant record date, most recently disclosed at about $10.00 per share. Redemption is a right attached to the public shares only; warrants and rights carry no claim on the trust. The mechanics and the deadline for electing are set out in the proxy statement for the vote in question.
Is the trust value the same as the share price for Hostess Brands, Inc.?
No. Trust per share is a disclosed, contractual figure: what a redeeming holder receives. The market price is whatever the shares change hands at, which can sit above the trust when a deal is well received or below it when the market doubts one will close. We do not have a current quote for this vehicle, so no spread is shown.
Is Hostess Brands, Inc. a good investment?
That is not a question this site answers. Hostess Brands, Inc. is covered here as reference data: what the company filed, when it filed it, and what the numbers in those filings say. The Edge, FOMO and Potential scores on this page are derived measures with a published formula, not ratings of investment merit: they describe the setup, and every component is shown so you can take them apart. We publish no price targets and no recommendations, and nothing here should be read as advice. The figures are a starting point for your own work, and each one carries the accession number of the filing it came from.
Where does this Hostess Brands, Inc. data come from?
Filings Hostess Brands, Inc. submitted to the SEC under CIK 0001644406: the registration statement and final prospectus for the structure, quarterly and annual reports for the trust, current reports and proxy statements for deals, votes and extensions. Trust economics are taken from the registrant's own XBRL tags rather than parsed from prose, which is why they are exact. Every filing in the history above is listed with its accession number, which identifies the document uniquely on EDGAR; Pro accounts open it directly from the row.
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Last reconciled Sep 17, 2026
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