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How General Mills, Inc. stacks up
GIS · against 76 other Consumer Defensive companies of similar size
Growth
13/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #74 of 77 · scores higher than 3% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score11 peers with a growth score of 10–19, including GIS · Click a bar to see the companies
Why growth scores 13?
Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.Mainly because of its earnings per share growth, 3-year revenue growth and revenue growth, which are weaker than most Consumer Defensive peers.
- Earnings per share turned from a profit to a loss. Earnings per share growth: — vs peer median 1.5%
- slower revenue growth over three years: weaker than 84% of peers. 3-year revenue growth: -3.4% vs peer median 3.7%
- slower revenue growth over the last year: weaker than 80% of peers. Revenue growth: -4.5% vs peer median 2.8%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = GIS, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | GIS | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growthHigher is better · 77 reported | -4.5% | 3.4% | 8% | 33% | |
| Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 65 reported | Not reported | 2.3% | — | — | 33% |
| 3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 76 reported | -3.4% | 3.7% | 7% | 33% |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Ranking by growth score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around GIS| Rank | Company | Market cap | Growth | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.33T JPY (≈$15.8B) | 91 | 68 | |
| 2 | 18.2B USD | 90 | 43 | |
| 2 | 1.14T INR (≈$13.7B) | 90 | 71 | |
| 4 | 12.9B USD | 89 | 62 | |
| 5 | 148.0B DKK (≈$22.2B) | 88 | 56 | |
| 68 | 11.7B USD | 18 | 38 | |
| 72 | 257.2B MXN (≈$13.9B) | 16 | 39 | |
| 72 | 23.6B USD | 16 | 48 | |
| 74 | 81.9B HKD (≈$10.5B) | 13 | 48 | |
| 74 | 18.2B USD | 13 | 11 | |
| 76 | 118.9B CNY (≈$16.7B) | 12 | 61 | |
| 77 | 17.2B EUR (≈$18.9B) | 4 | 47 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score