General Mills, Inc.

GIS Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

General Mills, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2026 (year ended May 2026) was $18.4 billion, down 5.45% from fiscal 2025.

Revenue
−2.83%
EPS
−66.7%
Free cash flow
−28.6%
Total debt
−6.75%

Quarter to August 2026, against a year earlier

36.36 0.51 +1.42%
Market cap
$19.5B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
11.3×
Dividend yield
6.71%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
2.06
Beneish M
−2.92
Dividend safety
37/100

General Mills, Inc. (GIS) Return on assets

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General Mills, Inc.'s return on assets over the twelve months to 31 August 2026 was −2.83%, down 2.6 percentage points from fiscal 2026 (−0.28%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −0.28% (fiscal 2026) to 8.60% (fiscal 2022) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is below the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.00% and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.45%.

Return on assets, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on assets Change (points)
FY2026 −0.28% (7.39)
FY2025 7.11% (0.83)
FY2024 7.94% (0.35)
FY2023 8.29% (0.31)
FY2022 8.60% 1.13
FY2021 7.47% 0.31
FY2020 7.16% 1.39
FY2019 5.77% (2.36)
FY2018 8.13% 0.51
FY2017 7.62% (0.18)

Against its own ten years

Low −0.28% High 8.60%
Ten-year median 7.55%
Current reading's percentile 8

Return on assets against peers

Company Return on assets
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 9.97%
LW Lamb Weston compare 3.50%
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 2.56%
JBS JBS N.V. compare 2.54%
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 1.35%
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 0.00%
GIS General Mills, Inc. −2.83%
KHC Kraft Heinz Company compare −4.50%
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 0.00%
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.45%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on assets is

ROA tells an investor how much profit a company earns for shareholders from the assets it uses to run its business.

Annual: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets; TTM: Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Average Assets (latest quarter)

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