General Mills, Inc.

GIS Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

In the quarter to August 2026, revenue fell 2.83%, EPS fell 66.7%, free cash flow fell 28.6% and total debt fell 6.75%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years.

33.13 0.25 +0.76%
Market cap
$17.6B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
10.6×
Dividend yield
7.36%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
2.06
Beneish M
−2.92
Dividend safety
37/100

General Mills, Inc. (GIS) Current ratio

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General Mills, Inc.'s current ratio at the end of the quarter to 31 August 2026 was 0.7×, up 0.0× from fiscal 2026 (0.7×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.6× (fiscal 2018) to 0.8× (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 50% of that period. That is below the Packaged Foods industry median of 1.7× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.4×.

Current ratio, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Current ratio Change
FY2026 0.7× 1.55%
FY2025 0.7× 3.09%
FY2024 0.7× (5.18%)
FY2023 0.7× 8.24%
FY2022 0.6× (8.85%)
FY2021 0.7× 1.84%
FY2020 0.7× 15.73%
FY2019 0.6× 5.16%
FY2018 0.6× (26.28%)
FY2017 0.8× (2.96%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Current ratio Change
Aug 2026 0.7× 3.23%
May 2026 0.7× 21.12%
Feb 2026 0.6× (14.39%)
Nov 2025 0.7× (0.12%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.6× High 0.8×
Ten-year median 0.7×
Current reading's percentile 50

Current ratio against peers

Company Current ratio
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 1.9×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 1.6×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 1.5×
LW Lamb Weston compare 1.5×
KHC Kraft Heinz Company compare 1.1×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare 1.0×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 0.9×
GIS General Mills, Inc. 0.7×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 0.7×
Packaged Foods industry median 1.7×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.4×
Market median 1.6×

What Current ratio is

Current Ratio shows whether a company’s short-term assets are enough to cover the bills and debts it must pay within the next year.

Current Assets (Total) ÷ Current Liabilities (Total)

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