General Mills, Inc (NYSE: GIS) is -17.94% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $50.19 and a high of $75.90 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The GIS stock was last observed hovering at around $53.15 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.31%.
Currently trading at $51.84, the stock is -2.32% and -4.05% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 8.07 million and changing -2.46% at the moment leaves the stock -15.53% off its SMA200. GIS registered -18.71% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -18.71%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $54.0268 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $61.3681.
The stock witnessed a -5.07% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -14.97%, and is 2.61% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.84% over the week and 2.21% over the month.
General Mills, Inc (GIS) has around 33000 employees, a market worth around $28.12B and $19.49B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.67 and Fwd P/E is 13.61. Profit margin for the company is 11.72%. Distance from 52-week low is 3.29% and -31.70% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (10.30%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -11.61% this year.
General Mills, Inc (GIS) Top Institutional Holders
2027.0 institutions hold shares in General Mills, Inc (GIS), with institutional investors hold 87.55% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 542.40M, and float is at 540.22M with Short Float at 5.19%. Institutions hold 87.29% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 67.38 million shares valued at $4.26 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 11.9001% of the GIS Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 54.94 million shares valued at $3.48 billion to account for 9.7037 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are STATE STREET CORP which holds 30.64 million shares representing 5.4106% and valued at over $1.94 billion, while CAPITAL RESEARCH GLOBAL INVESTORS holds 3.4682 of the shares totaling 19.64 million with a market value of $1.24 billion.
General Mills, Inc (GIS) Insider Activity
General Mills, Inc disclosed in a document filed with the SEC on May 15 ’25 that Sharma Pankaj MN (Segment President) sold a total of 3,643 shares of the company’s common stock. The trade occurred on May 15 ’25 and was made at $54.12 per share for $0.2 million. Following the transaction, the insider now directly holds 33073.0 shares of the GIS stock.
