General Mills Inc Overview
Industry: Packaged Foods
Sector: Consumer Defensive
General Mills, Inc. manufactures and markets branded consumer foods worldwide. The company operates in five segments: North America Retail; Convenience Stores & Foodservice; Europe & Australia; Asia & Latin America; and Pet. It offers ready-to-eat cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, refrigerated and frozen dough products, dessert and baking mixes, bakery flour, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, snack bars, fruit and salty snacks, ice cream, nutrition bars, wellness beverages, and savory and grain snacks, as well as various organic products, including frozen and shelf-stable vegetables. It also supplies branded and unbranded food products to the North American foodservice and commercial baking industries; and manufactures and markets pet food products, including dog and cat food. The company markets its products under the Annie's, Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Blue Buffalo, Blue Basics, Blue Freedom, Bugles, Cascadian Farm, Cheerios, Chex, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, EPIC, Fiber One, Food Should Taste Good, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit Gushers, Fruit Roll-Ups, Gardetto's, Go-Gurt, Gold Medal, Golden Grahams, Hagen-Dazs, Helpers, Jus-Rol, Kitano, Kix, Lrabar, Latina, Libert, Lucky Charms, Muir Glen, Nature Valley, Oatmeal Crisp, Old El Paso, Oui, Pillsbury, Progresso, Raisin Nut Bran, Total, Totino's, Trix, Wanchai Ferry, Wheaties, Wilderness, Yoki, and Yoplait trademarks. It sells its products directly, as well as through broker and distribution arrangements to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, membership stores, natural food chains, e-commerce retailers, commercial and noncommercial foodservice distributors and operators, restaurants, convenience stores, and pet specialty stores, as well as drug, dollar, and discount chains. The company operates 466 leased and 392 franchise ice cream parlors. General Mills, Inc. was founded in 1866 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. General Mills, Inc. manufactures and markets branded consumer foods worldwide. The company operates in five segments: North America Retail; Convenience Stores & Foodservice; Europe & Australia; Asia & Latin America; and Pet. It offers ready-to-eat cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, refri Read MoreMavefund brings filings, fundamentals, valuation, price history and news for General Mills Inc into one research view. The sections below show what strengthens or weakens the research case.
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Quarterly result summary
Net sales was $4.6B (reported); earnings were $2.3M; EPS was $0.95.
What changed
- Net sales reported to $4.6B; earnings $2.3M; EPS $0.95.
- Net sales of $4.6 billion were up 1 percent; organic net sales¹ were in line with last year.
- Net sales of $18.4 billion were down 5 percent, including a 6-point headwind from the net impact of divestitures and acquisitions and a 2-point benefit from the 53rd week; organic net sales¹ were down 2 percent.
Guidance / outlook
the company expects category growth to be consistent with recent trends and below its long-term historical growth rate, driven by a continued challenging consumer backdrop.
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