General Mills (GIS)

• Market cap: $32.6B
• 1 day: -2.05%
• 5 days: -1.92%
• 1 month: 2.09%
• 3 months: -7.51%
• 6 months: -20.96%
• Year to date: -6.83%
• 1 year: -13.74%
• 5 years: 10.28%
• 10 years: 12.68%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Grain Mill Products

About: 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. In fiscal 2024, 81% of its revenue was derived from the United States, although the company also operates in Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Although most of General Mills' products are sold through retail stores to consumers, the company also sells products to the foodservice channel and the commercial baking industry.

Employees: 34,000

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

44% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 192 | Existing positions closed: 133

37% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $244M | Put options by funds: $178M

3.88% more ownership

Funds ownership: 76.01% [Q3] → 79.9% (+3.88%) [Q4]

2% more funds holding

Funds holding: 1,545 [Q3] → 1,570 (+25) [Q4]

0% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 7 [Q3] → 7 (+0) [Q4]

8% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 536 | Existing positions reduced: 582

10% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $31.1B [Q3] → $28B (-$3.14B) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

10 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $58 2% downside
• Avg. target: $65 9% upside
• High target: $71 20% upside

10 analyst ratings

• positive: 3 30%
• neutral: 7 70%
• negative: 0 0%

Barclays Andrew Lazar 33% 1-year accuracy 7 / 21 met price target	10% upside $65	Equal-Weight Maintained	18 Mar 2025
RBC Capital Nik Modi 49% 1-year accuracy 19 / 39 met price target	18% upside $70	Sector Perform Reiterated	17 Mar 2025
Citigroup Thomas Palmer 18% 1-year accuracy 6 / 33 met price target	2% downside $58	Neutral Maintained	14 Mar 2025
JP Morgan Ken Goldman 50% 1-year accuracy 6 / 12 met price target	1% upside $60	Neutral Maintained	11 Mar 2025
Jefferies Rob Dickerson 71% 1-year accuracy 5 / 7 met price target	5% upside $62	Hold Maintained	10 Mar 2025