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) EV/Sales

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As of 16 October 2026, General Mills, Inc. (GIS) trades at a EV/Sales of 1.7×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.6× (May 2026) to 3.2× (December 2022); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.9× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.0×.

EV/Sales, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
FY2026 1.7× (25.00%)
FY2025 2.3× (14.17%)
FY2024 2.6× (13.84%)
FY2023 3.0× 9.72%
FY2022 2.8× 2.12%
FY2021 2.7× (4.69%)
FY2020 2.8× 13.72%
FY2019 2.5× 3.07%
FY2018 2.4× (6.92%)
FY2017 2.6× (3.86%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
Aug 2026 1.9× 13.73%
May 2026 1.7× (15.18%)
Feb 2026 2.0× (2.40%)
Nov 2025 2.0× (2.67%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.6× High 3.2×
Ten-year median 2.6×
Current reading's percentile 1

EV/Sales against peers

Company EV/Sales
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare n/m
JBS JBS N.V. compare 0.4×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 1.1×
LW Lamb Weston compare 1.7×
GIS General Mills, Inc. 1.7×
KHC Kraft Heinz Company compare 1.8×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 2.1×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 2.1×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 2.2×
Packaged Foods industry median 0.9×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.0×
Market median 2.1×

What EV/Sales is

EV/Sales tells an investor how the value of a whole company, counting its debt and cash, compares with the sales it brings in.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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