General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) has a beta value of 0.13 and has seen 6.42 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $38.97B, closed the last trade at $68.63 per share which meant it gained $0.89 on the day or 1.31% during that session. The GIS stock price is -32.43% off its 52-week high price of $90.89 and 12.09% above the 52-week low of $60.33. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 4.79 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 4.12 million shares.
General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) trade information
Sporting 1.31% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, when the GIS stock price touched $68.63 or saw a rise of 0.26%. Year-to-date, General Mills, Inc. shares have moved 5.36%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 4.43%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) have changed 7.07%. Short interest in the company has seen 13.83 million shares shorted with days to cover at 3.62.
General Mills, Inc. (GIS) estimates and forecasts
Figures show that General Mills, Inc. shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 3.83% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 4.42%, compared to 11.50% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, increased its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are 8.20% and -1.80% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -0.60%.
14 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $4.96 billion for the current quarter. 14 have an estimated revenue figure of $4.98 billion for the next quarter concluding in May 2024.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 3.46% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 4.44% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 7.17%.
GIS Dividends
General Mills, Inc. is expected to release its next earnings report on March 20 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 2.31 at a share yield of 3.37%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.
General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.21% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 78.75% with a share float percentage of 78.92%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with General Mills, Inc. having a total of 2,068 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Blackrock Inc. with over 54.71 million shares worth more than $4.2 billion. As of Jun 29, 2023, Blackrock Inc. held 9.41% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is Vanguard Group Inc, with the holding of over 52.05 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $3.99 billion and represent 8.95% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and American Mutual Fund Inc. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 3.15% shares in the company for having 18.33 million shares of worth $1.41 billion while later fund manager owns 16.9 million shares of worth $1.08 billion as of Sep 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 2.91% of company’s outstanding stock.
