General Mills (GIS)
Consumer Staples · Packaged foods and pet food
A diversified global food manufacturer with 100+ brands selling packaged snacks, cereals, pet food, and frozen meals across six continents.
What General Mills does
General Mills is a leading global manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods with over 100 brands sold in approximately 100 countries. The company operates four segments: North America Retail, International, North America Pet, and North America Foodservice. It produces a broad range of human and pet food products including snacks, ready-to-eat cereals, convenient meals, pet foods, dough products, baking mixes, and premium ice cream, with strategic joint ventures in cereal (CPW with Nestlé) and premium ice cream (Häagen-Dazs in Japan).
Themes: ["packaged foods","pet food growth","Blue Buffalo expansion","commodity input costs","private label competition","consumer value focus","North America Retail","International expansion"]
Fundamentals
- Price$35.85 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$19.3B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return-30.0% as of 2026-07-09 close
- Net margin-0.5% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+33.7% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE-1.0% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity1.84 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)-5.5% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-2.9% SEC XBRL
- Beta-0.05 as of 2026-07-10
Dividend: yield +6.7%; 5-year non-decreasing per-share dividend streak (SEC XBRL).
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Volatile raw material costs driven by weather, climate change, commodity market fluctuations, currency swings, trade tariffs, and geopolitical events like war","Intense competition from regional brands, private-label products, and retailer-owned brands sold at lower prices, plus direct competition from large multinational rivals with substantial resources","Heavy customer concentration: Walmart and affiliates account for 22% of consolidated net sales and 31% of North America Retail segment sales, creating dependency on a single major customer"]
Competitors & peers
- Mondelēz International
- Nestlé
- Kellogg Company
- Post Holdings
- Conagra Brands
- J.M. Smucker Company
- Kraft Heinz
- Private label / retail brands
- Packaged consumer food manufacturing and branded food products
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.