General Mills (GIS)

Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods · S&P 500
$32.18 +1.58% on the day Market cap $17.3B 52-week range $31.18 to $51.26 Prices as of Oct 7, 2026

What the price implies

A reverse DCF: instead of guessing a fair value, it asks what growth today's price already assumes. How it works.

Free cash flow growth the price needs
-3% a year for 10 years

At a market value of $17.3B, General Mills's free cash flow of $1.6B (fiscal 2026) would need to grow about -3% a year for the stock to be worth today's price. That is close to what the company has delivered over the last 9 years.

Assumes a 9% discount rate and 3% growth after year 10, on free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital spending) from General Mills's SEC filings. Change any assumption, or model revenue and margins instead, in the Modeling tab, or try your own numbers in the reverse DCF calculator.

Implied by the price-3.4% a year
Free cash flow, last 9 years-0.7% a year
Revenue, same period1.9% a year
Price to free cash flow10.6x

Fundamental grade

F

Five factors scored 1 to 9 from GIS's latest numbers, weighted into one grade. It describes the business, not whether the stock is a buy.

Valuation8
Profitability0
Growth0
Financial health1
Cash efficiency4

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)—
P/E (forward)9.85x
Price / free cash flow7.53x
EV / EBITDA281.1x
Price / sales0.94x
Price / book1.90x
Revenue growth-2.8%
Operating margin-1.1%
Net margin-4.9%
Return on equity-12.0%
Dividend yield7.6%
Debt / equity3.06x

Results from SEC filings

Fiscal years, from General Mills's 10-K filings. The deep dive has 15+ years, quarters and every line.

Fiscal year20222023202420252026
Revenue$19.0B$20.1B$19.9B$19.5B$18.4B
Net income$2.7B$2.6B$2.5B$2.3B-$88M
Free cash flow$2.7B$2.1B$2.5B$2.3B$1.6B
EPS (diluted)$4.42$4.31$4.31$4.10-$0.16
Operating margin18.3%17.1%17.3%17.0%4.8%

Where the revenue comes from

Revenue by products, fiscal 2026.

Snacks$4.1B22%
Cereal$3.1B17%
Convenient meals$2.9B16%
Pet$2.8B15%
Dough$2.4B13%
Baking mixes and ingredients$1.9B10%

Superinvestors who own GIS

From each investor's latest 13F filing (what a 13F shows). 7 of the investors we track hold it.

InvestorLast quarterValue% of portfolioQuarter
Cliff Asness
AQR Capital Management
Added $522M0.18%Q2 2026
Ric Dillon
Diamond Hill Capital Management
Trimmed $126M1.0%Q2 2026
Joel Greenblatt
Gotham Asset Management
Added $79M0.18%Q2 2026
Mario Gabelli
GAMCO Investors
Trimmed $12M0.11%Q2 2026
Murray Stahl
Horizon Kinetics LLC
Trimmed $753,7680.01%Q2 2026
Dodge & Cox
Dodge & Cox
Held $389,7600.0%Q2 2026
Hersh Cohen
ClearBridge Investments
Held $320,1600.0%Q2 2026

Insider buying

Open-market purchases by General Mills's executives and directors in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings. What insider buying tells you.

DateInsiderSharesPriceValue
Jan 29, 2026 Ro Khanna
0$44.41—
Jan 29, 2026 Ro Khanna
0$44.41—
Jan 6, 2026 Ro Khanna
0$43.85—
Jan 6, 2026 Ro Khanna
0$43.85—
Dec 19, 2025 Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.
0$47.85—
Dec 19, 2025 Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr.
0$47.85—
Nov 10, 2025 Ro Khanna
0$46.23—
Nov 10, 2025 Ro Khanna
0$46.23—
Oct 7, 2025 Ro Khanna
0$50.92—
Oct 7, 2025 Ro Khanna
0$50.92—

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In the full deep dive

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Yearly return (IRR) at today's price
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Questions

What growth does General Mills's stock price imply?

At a market value of $17.3B, General Mills would need its free cash flow to grow about -3% a year for 10 years (discounted at 9%, 3% growth after that) to be worth today's price. Over the last 9 years its free cash flow grew -1% a year.

Are General Mills insiders buying the stock?

10 open-market insider purchases of GIS in the last 12 months, from SEC Form 4 filings.

Which superinvestors own General Mills?

7 of the superinvestors Investingly tracks hold GIS in their latest 13F, including Cliff Asness, Ric Dillon, Joel Greenblatt.

Prices and ratios as of Oct 7, 2026; statements from SEC filings. Information only, not investment advice. Superinvestor holdings come from 13F filings, which are filed up to 45 days after each quarter ends.