GIS (General Mills) Debt-to-Equity : 1.44 (As of Aug. 2024)

General Mills Debt-to-Equity Chart

General Mills Annual Data
	Trend	May15	May16	May17	May18	May19	May20	May21	May22	May23	May24
Debt-to-Equity		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					1.73	1.37	1.14	1.16	1.42

General Mills Quarterly Data
	Nov19	Feb20	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24	May24	Aug24
Debt-to-Equity	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															1.20	1.35	1.33	1.42	1.44

Competitive Comparison of General Mills's Debt-to-Equity

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, General Mills's Debt-to-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-Equity data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

General Mills's Debt-to-Equity Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, General Mills's Debt-to-Equity distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where General Mills's Debt-to-Equity falls into.

General Mills Debt-to-Equity Calculation

Debt to Equity measures the financial leverage a company has.

General Mills's Debt to Equity Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2024 is calculated as

General Mills's Debt to Equity Ratio for the quarter that ended in Aug. 2024 is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

General Mills  (NYSE:GIS) Debt-to-Equity Explanation

In the calculation of Debt to Equity, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by Total Stockholders Equity. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.

Be Aware

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high ROE % companies.

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