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General Mills, Inc. (GIS)

NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Packaged Foods

Share price

32.88 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

17.58B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed Jul 1, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2017 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

-1.2% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to book

2.40x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

9.2% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 15.62B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.66B USDFY2018 Revenue: 15.74B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.13B USDFY2019 Revenue: 16.87B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.75B USDFY2020 Revenue: 17.63B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.18B USDFY2021 Revenue: 18.13B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.34B USDFY2022 Revenue: 18.99B USDFY2022 Net income: 2.71B USDFY2023 Revenue: 20.09B USDFY2023 Net income: 2.59B USDFY2024 Revenue: 19.86B USDFY2024 Net income: 2.50B USDFY2025 Revenue: 19.49B USDFY2025 Net income: 2.30B USDFY2026 Revenue: 18.42B USDFY2026 Net income: -87.6M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it good

Return on equity was -1.2% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Packaged Foods industry (48 companies), -1.2% sits at the 40th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -26.7% to 10.7%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 1.52x in FY2026, in the band labelled "Speculative grade" (1.50x to 3.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether General Mills, Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Packaged Foods industry, year by year. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 fiscal years of General Mills, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way General Mills, Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of General Mills, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in General Mills, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (7 readings drawn from the statement lines General Mills, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on General Mills, Inc., and where in its filings. (5 questions for General Mills, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on General Mills, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (13 of sixteen figures read for General Mills, Inc.)

These are GIS’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-046466.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

General Mills, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Return on equity-1.2% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Return on capital employed, pre-tax3.8% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Return on assets-0.3% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Gross margin33.6% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Operating margin4.8% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Net margin-0.5% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
GIS -0.5%
SJM -1.5%MKC 11.5%KHC -23.4%MICC 3.7%JBS 2.4%
-23.4%11.5%
Net margin: GIS against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

General Mills, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity1.89 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Current ratio0.68 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Quick ratio0.40 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Interest coverage1.52x ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Altman Z-score2.05 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Net debt13.49B ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Total assets 30.02BTotal liabilities 22.64BShareholders' equity 7.37BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What General Mills, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466).

General Mills, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets30.02B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026
Total liabilities22.64B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026
Shareholders' equity7.37B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026
Cash453.8M FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026
Total debt13.94B FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026
Net debt13.49B
Current ratio0.68
Debt to equity1.89

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

General Mills, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
P/E on trailing twelve months8.51x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book2.40x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Price to sales0.96x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Enterprise value to EBIT35.18x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Enterprise value to EBITDA21.63x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Diluted earnings per share-0.16 USD FiledFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Graham number
Why n/m

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

n/m ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value GIS on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for General Mills, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

General Mills, Inc: valuation
Share price32.88 USD
Market capitalisation17.58B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA21.63x
Graham numbern/m
Diluted earnings per share, FY2026-0.16 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Jun 29, 2017: low 7.87x, median 15.95x, high 22.05x, latest 8.51x. 2,262 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 74 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like General Mills, Inc

  1. The J. M. Smucker Company (SJM)Market cap 13.45B USD
  2. McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC)Market cap 12.30B USD
  3. The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC)Market cap 27.61B USD
  4. The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. (MICC)Market cap 11.29B USD
  5. JBS N.V. (JBS)Market cap 28.21B USD

Same industry (Packaged Foods) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

General Mills, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield9.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Free cash flow1.63B USD ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Free cash flow margin8.8% ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Dividend yield7.4% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
FY2017 Free cash flow: 1.73B USDFY2017 Net income: 1.66B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 2.22B USDFY2018 Net income: 2.13B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 2.27B USDFY2019 Net income: 1.75B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 3.22B USDFY2020 Net income: 2.18B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 2.45B USDFY2021 Net income: 2.34B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 2.75B USDFY2022 Net income: 2.71B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 2.09B USDFY2023 Net income: 2.59B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 2.53B USDFY2024 Net income: 2.50B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 2.29B USDFY2025 Net income: 2.30B USDFY2026 Free cash flow: 1.63B USDFY2026 Net income: -87.6M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

General Mills, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
n/mFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
2.40xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
35.18xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
9.2%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Jul 1, 2026
n/a The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
7.4%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
1.89FY2026Jul 1, 2026
0.68FY2026Jul 1, 2026
0.96xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/mFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
2.05FY2026Oct 15, 2026
-2.60FY2026Jul 1, 2026
5/9FY2026Jul 1, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2017 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports General Mills, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

General Mills, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202618.42B885.8M-87.6M-0.161.63B4.8%-1.2%10-K, Jul 1, 20260001628280-26-046466
FY202519.49B3.30B2.30B4.102.29B17.0%24.9%10-K, Jun 26, 20250001193125-25-147079
FY202419.86B3.43B2.50B4.312.53B17.3%26.6%10-K, Jun 26, 20240001193125-24-168943
FY202320.09B3.43B2.59B4.312.09B17.1%24.8%10-K, Jun 28, 20230001193125-23-177500
FY202218.99B3.48B2.71B4.422.75B18.3%25.7%10-K, Jun 30, 20220001193125-22-185257
FY202118.13B3.14B2.34B3.782.45B17.4%24.7%10-K, Jun 30, 20210001193125-21-204830
FY202017.63B2.95B2.18B3.563.22B16.8%27.1%10-K, Jul 2, 20200001193125-20-186469
FY201916.87B2.52B1.75B2.902.27B14.9%24.9%10-K, Jun 28, 20190001193125-19-184675
FY201815.74B2.42B2.13B3.642.22B15.4%34.7%10-K, Jun 29, 20180001193125-18-209377
FY201715.62B2.49B1.66B2.771.73B15.9%38.3%10-K, Jun 29, 20170001193125-17-217396
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 1.9%
  • Earnings: Earnings was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Earnings per share: Earnings per share was not positive in both 2017 and 2026, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: -0.7%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

General Mills, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.60 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2026 10-K, filed Jul 1, 2026, 0001628280-26-046466
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.06 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 23 not met, 5 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Dividends and buybacks; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(8)
  • P/E Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed income tax is outside 0 to 100% of pre-tax income (a tax benefit on a profit, a charge on a loss, or a charge above the profit), which is a one-off in the tax line and not a rate operating profit was taxed at, so after-tax operating profit is not computed.
  • PEG Ratio: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.
  • Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 8 figures could not be read on this company, among them P/E Ratio, Return on Invested Capital, PEG Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 5 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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