GENERAL MILLS INC
GENERAL MILLS INC (GIS) has a dated report snapshot, but its current priced-in claim is temporarily suppressed because the live engine record is unavailable or has changed.
General Mills' moat is brand shelf space and scale in packaged food, and it shows up as a 19% trailing operating margin. That durable profitability is what makes a deep-value price look like a mispricing rather than a warning. At $33.42 the market pays only about 8 times operating income, below what even a 5%-a-year operating-profit decline would warrant. Every valuation family supports the price; this is a value name, not a growth bet. The offset is leverage and a soft top line. Net debt sits
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1,265 institutional managers reported holding GIS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 84% of the company; the top 10 hold 48%. 113 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 52.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 10% of shares outstanding (5.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
GIS has cut its share count 12.1% over the past five years, spending $6.02B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 6 years straight; the current rate is $2.40 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $3.69B in dividends and $3.73B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at GIS over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 27 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
GIS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-29 | -5.7% | -11.3% |
| 2023-09-21 | -0.6% | -0.9% |
| 2023-12-21 | -3.8% | +1.4% |
| 2024-03-21 | +0.1% | +0.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
GIS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-01 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-05-06 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-04 (items 5.02); 2026-04-16 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-03-18 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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