Sec Form 13D Filing - GAMCO INVESTORS INC. (GBL) filing for FLUSHING FINANCIAL CORP (FFIC) - 2024-12-17

Insider filing report for Changes in Beneficial Ownership

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SCHEDULE 13D/A 0000807249-13-000265 0000807249 XXXXXXXX LIVE 7 Common Stock 12/16/2024 false 0000923139 343873105 FLUSHING FINANCIAL CORP
220 RXR PLAZA 220 RXR PLAZA UNIONDALE NY 11556
David Goldman 9149217793 GAMCO Investors, Inc. One Corporate Center Rye NY 10580
0000807249 N GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL WC N NY 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Y 0.0 CO HC 0001081407 N GABELLI FUNDS LLC OO N NY 445039.00 0.00 445039.00 0.00 445039.00 N 1.3 CO IA 0001460612 N GAMCO Asset Management Inc. OO N NY 1145375.00 0.00 1148375.00 0.00 1148375.00 N 3.4 CO IA 0001444874 N Teton Advisors, Inc. OO N DE 244000.00 0.00 244000.00 0.00 244000.00 N 0.7 CO IA 0001238894 N GGCP, INC. WC N WY 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Y 0.0 CO HC 0001642122 N Associated Capital Group, Inc. WC N DE 3000.00 0.00 3000.00 0.00 3000.00 Y 0.0 CO HC 0001185533 N GABELLI MARIO J PF N X1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Y 0.0 IN Common Stock FLUSHING FINANCIAL CORP 220 RXR PLAZA 220 RXR PLAZA UNIONDALE NY 11556 This statement is being filed by one or more of the following persons: GGCP, Inc. (GGCP), GGCP Holdings LLC (GGCP Holdings), GAMCO Investors, Inc. (GBL), Associated Capital Group, Inc. (AC), Gabelli Funds, LLC (Gabelli Funds), GAMCO Asset Management Inc. (GAMCO), Teton Advisors, LLC (Teton Advisors), Keeley-Teton Advisors, LLC (Keeley-Teton), Gabelli & Company Investment Advisers, Inc. (GCIA), Morgan Group Holding Co., (MGH), G.research, LLC (G.research), MJG Associates, Inc. (MJG Associates), Gabelli Securities International (Bermuda) Limited (GSIL), Gabelli Foundation, Inc. (Foundation), Mario Gabelli, LICT and CIBL. Those of the foregoing persons signing this Schedule 13D are hereinafter referred to as the Reporting Persons. GAMCO is a New York corporation and GBL and MGH are Delaware corporations, each having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. GGCP is a Wyoming corporation and AC and GCIA are Delaware corporations each having its principal business office 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. GGCP Holdings is a Delaware limited liability corporation having its principal business office at 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. G.research is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal officers at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. Gabelli Funds is a New York limited liability company having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. Teton Advisors is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal place of business at 189 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. Keeley-Teton Advisors is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal place of business at 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. MJG Associates is a Connecticut corporation having its principal business office at 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. The Foundation is a Nevada corporation having its principal offices at 165 West Liberty Street, Reno, Nevada 89501. LICT is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business as 401 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, New York 10580. CIBL, Inc. is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business as 165 West Liberty Street, Suite 220, Reno, NV 89501. Not applicable. Not applicable. United States The aggregate number of Securities to which this Schedule 13D relates is 1,840,414 shares, representing 5.47% of the 33,659,067 shares outstanding as reported by the Issuer. This Amendment to Schedule 13D is being filed to reflect a decrease in the Reporting Persons ownership which is due to an increase in the Issuer's shares outstanding as reported in the Issuer's Prospectus filed on December 16, 2024. The Reporting Persons beneficially own those Securities as follows: AC 3,000 shares 0.01%, Funds 445,039 shares 1.32%, GAMCO 1,148,375 shares 3.41% and Teton 244,000 share 0.72%. Each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons has the sole power to vote or direct the vote and sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of the Securities reported for it, either for its own benefit or for the benefit of its investment clients or its partners, as the case may be, except that (i) GAMCO does not have authority to vote 3,000 of the reported shares, (ii) Gabelli Funds has sole dispositive and voting power with respect to the shares of the Issuer held by the Funds so long as the aggregate voting interest of all joint filers does not exceed 25% of their total voting interest in the Issuer and, in that event, the Proxy Voting Committee of each Fund shall respectively vote that Funds shares, (iii) at any time, the Proxy Voting Committee of each such Fund may take and exercise in its sole discretion the entire voting power with respect to the shares held by such fund under special circumstances such as regulatory considerations, and (iv) the power of Mario Gabelli, AC, GBL, and GGCP is indirect with respect to Securities beneficially owned directly by other Reporting Persons. Information with respect to all transactions in the Securities which were effected during the past sixty days or since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D, whichever is less, by each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons is set forth below: DATE SHARES PURCHASED PRICE /SOLD GABELLI FUNDS, LLC GAMCO ACV SICAV 12/9/2024 -400 17.2136 GABELLI EQUITY TRUST 11/25/2024 -6,000 18.3628 GABELLI GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES FUND 11/6/2024 -3,000 18.0910 10/29/2024 -1,500 16.1672 10/25/2024 -3,000 15.9534 GABELLI SRI FUND 11/29/2024 2,000 17.5700 GAMCO ASSET MANAGEMENT INC. 12/16/2024 -500 15.2000 12/9/2024 -300 17.2600 12/6/2024 425 17.1553 11/25/2024 -1,500 18.3937 11/19/2024 850 17.1021 11/12/2024 -500 18.0400 11/12/2024 -5,000 18.2200 11/11/2024 -500 18.2592 10/18/2024 -500 15.4960 10/18/2024 -2,000 15.5210 TETON ADVISORS, INC. TETON WESTWOOD MIGHTY MITES FUND 12/13/2024 -3,200 16.5000 12/11/2024 -4,000 17.1242 12/3/2024 -1,000 17.5000 12/2/2024 -800 17.7100 11/25/2024 -2,000 18.2552 11/6/2024 -4,500 17.8583 11/5/2024 -1,500 15.4442 11/4/2024 -700 15.3443 10/28/2024 -5,000 16.0504 10/28/2024 -20,000 16.1684 (1) UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL TRANSACTIONS WERE EFFECTED ON THE NASDAQ. (2) PRICE EXCLUDES COMMISSION. The investment advisory clients of, or partnerships managed by, GAMCO, Gabelli Funds, Teton Advisors and MJG Associates have the sole right to receive and, subject to the notice, withdrawal and/or termination provisions of such advisory contracts and partnership arrangements, the sole power to direct the receipt of dividends from, and the proceeds of sale of, any of the Securities beneficially owned by such Reporting Persons on behalf of such clients or partnerships. Except as noted, no such client or partnership has an interest by virtue of such relationship that relates to more than 5% of the Securities. Not applicable. GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL Peter D. Goldstein 12/17/2024 GABELLI FUNDS LLC David Goldman 12/17/2024 GAMCO Asset Management Inc. Douglas R. Jamieson 12/17/2024 Teton Advisors, Inc. David Goldman 12/17/2024 GGCP, INC. David Goldman 12/17/2024 Associated Capital Group, Inc. Douglas R. Jamieson 12/17/2024 GABELLI MARIO J David Goldman 12/17/2024