General Mills, Inc (NYSE: GIS) is -23.90% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $49.04 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 $51.07 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -1.22%.
Currently trading at $49.85, the stock is -2.69% and -5.40% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 5.92 million and changing -2.39% at the moment leaves the stock -16.39% off its SMA200. GIS registered -21.83% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -17.44%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $52.6944 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $59.6208.
The stock witnessed a -1.03% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -11.20%, and is 1.36% 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 1.78% over the week and 2.23% over the month.
General Mills, Inc (GIS) has around 33000 employees, a market worth around $27.04B and $19.49B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.19 and Fwd P/E is 13.05. Profit margin for the company is 11.72%. Distance from 52-week low is 1.65% and -34.32% 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 -13.22% this year.
General Mills, Inc (GIS) Top Institutional Holders
2001.0 institutions hold shares in General Mills, Inc (GIS), with institutional investors hold 87.61% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 542.40M, and float is at 540.25M with Short Float at 5.73%. Institutions hold 87.34% 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.
