General Mills, Inc (GIS) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $59.29, with 5.31 million shares of worth about $314.85 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -16.29% during that period and on Wednesday the price saw a loss of about -3.73%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 552.20M shares, out of which, 549.23M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 2.24% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -3.81%. Year-to-date (YTD), GIS shares are showing a performance of -7.03% which decreased to -9.23% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $55.15 but also hit the highest price of $75.90 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for General Mills, Inc shares is 4.53 million. The stock is currently trading -0.29% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.88% for SMA50 and it goes to -10.95% lower than SMA200.
General Mills, Inc (NYSE: GIS) currently have 552.20M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 81.97% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $32.68B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.05. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 12.90, while it has posted earnings per share of $4.60 in the same period. Its PEG reads 9.42 and has Quick Ratio of 0.67 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 1.58. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for GIS, volatility over the week remained 3.11% while standing at 2.38% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -3.07% while it is estimated to increase by 2.19% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 1.37% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 8.24% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by TD Cowen on December 19, 2024 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $75 and $64 to it. Coverage by BofA Securities stated General Mills, Inc (GIS) stock as a Buy in their note to investors on December 13, 2024, suggesting a price target of $80 for the stock. Stock get a Mkt perform rating from Bernstein on May 15, 2024.
