# General Mills, Inc. (GIS) — Stock CV

General Mills, Inc. is a $17.3B consumer staples company. Revenue shrank 4.5% over the last year, and it currently loses money.

> General Mills is a global packaged-food company that produces snacks, cereal, convenient meals, dough, baking mixes and ingredients, pet food, and superpremium ice cream. Its largest brands are Nature Valley, Cheerios, Old El Paso, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Blue Buffalo, and Haagen-Dazs.

## Identity

- **Ticker**: GIS
- **Sector**: Consumer Defensive
- **Industry**: Grain Mill Products
- **Headquarters**: MINNEAPOLIS, MN
- **Employees**: 30 000
- **Website**: https://www.generalmills.com
- **Market cap**: $17.3B
- **Last price**: $32.36
- **Financial profile**: Strained

## Vitals (TTM)

- **Revenue**: $18.3B
- **Net income**: -$895M
- **Free cash flow**: $1.55B
- **P/E**: 15.1
- **Revenue growth (YoY)**: -4.5%

## Skills (profile scores, 0–100)

| Pillar | Score |
|---|---|
| Valuation | 75 |
| Growth | 20 |
| Profitability | 0 |
| Health | 9 |
| Quality | 65 |
| Moat | 63 |

## Qualifications (beginner checklist) — 6 of 11 passed

- [ ] Revenue growing — -4.5% YoY
- [ ] Profitable — -$895M TTM
- [ ] Profit growing — -103.8% YoY
- [x] Generates cash — $1.55B TTM
- [ ] Debt under control — current ratio 0.70
- [x] Established company — $17.3B market cap
- [x] Not printing shares — -11.6% shares over ~5y
- [x] Proven track record — 10/11 profitable years
- [ ] Financially stable — health score 9/100
- [x] Pays a dividend — yield 7.62%
- [x] Valuation not extreme — P/E 15.1

## Experience (career milestones)

- **FY2022** — Best year on record: $2.71B net income
- **FY2016** — First recorded profitable year: $1.70B net income
- **FY2016** — Revenue already above $10B: $16.6B in first reported year
- **FY2016** — Positive free cash flow every year since: 11-year streak
- **1996** — General Mills acquired Ralcorp's cereal brands, including Chex and Cookie Crisp
- **1995** — Another themed restaurant, China Coast, was added before the entire group was spun off to General Mills shareholders…
- **1980** — General Mills acquired the California-based Good Earth health food restaurant chain
- **1970** — General Mills acquired Red Lobster, then a five-unit restaurant
- **1967** — General Mills bought the Kenner toy company
- **1956** — General Mills created the tear-strip for easily opening packages
- **1947** — General Mills bought Jesse Jones, a sausage and meat products maker started in Virginia and moved to…
- **1941** — General Mills became the sponsor of the popular radio show The Lone Ranger in 1941
- **1939** — General Mills engineer Helmer Anderson created the Anderson sealer
- **Jun 20, 1928** — General Mills itself was created on June 20, 1928, when Washburn-Crosby President James Ford Bell merged…

## Strengths

- None stand out in the data.

## Watch-outs

- Revenue shrinking 4.5% year over year
- Not profitable — 4.9% net margin
- Thin interest coverage (1.8×)
- Loss-making in 1 of the recent years

## Track record

| Year | Revenue | Net income | Free cash flow |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | $19.0B | $2.71B | $2.75B |
| FY2023 | $20.1B | $2.59B | $2.09B |
| FY2024 | $19.9B | $2.50B | $2.53B |
| FY2025 | $19.5B | $2.30B | $2.29B |
| FY2026 | $18.4B | -$87.6M | $1.63B |

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Source: https://stockcv.com/GIS — derived from company filings; may be delayed or incomplete. Information, not investment advice.