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General Mills 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate

: 0.70% (As of Feb. 2021)
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General Mills's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Feb. 2021 was $0.51.

NYSE:GIS' s 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -3.2   Med: 9.05   Max: 48.9
Current: 0.7
-3.2
48.9

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of General Mills was 48.90% per year. The lowest was -3.20% per year. And the median was 9.05% per year.

NYSE:GIS's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate is ranked lower than
54% of the 773 Companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.

( Industry Median: 2.70 vs. NYSE:GIS: 0.70 )

During the past 12 months, General Mills's average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 2.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 0.70% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 3.20% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 7.70% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

General Mills's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Feb. 2021 was 0.53. As of today, General Mills's Dividend Yield % is 3.16%.

Warning Sign:

General Mills Inc stock dividend yield is close to 3-year low.

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Competitive Comparison
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General Mills 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution

* The bar in red indicates where General Mills's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.


General Mills 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

General Mills  (NYSE:GIS) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

General Mills's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2021 is calculated as

Dividend Payout Ratio=Dividends per Share (Q: Feb. 2021 )/ EPS without NRI (Q: Feb. 2021 )
=0.51/ 0.96
=0.53

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of General Mills was 0.85. The lowest was 0.42. And the median was 0.55.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

General Mills Recent Full-Year Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 0.5102021-04-082021-04-092021-05-03Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.5102021-01-072021-01-082021-02-01Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.5102020-10-082020-10-092020-11-02Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 0.4902020-07-092020-07-102020-08-03Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000

* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

General Mills's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Dividend Yield %=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=2.02/63.83
=3.16 %

Current Share Price is $63.83.
General Mills's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $2.02.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of General Mills was 5.24%. The lowest was 2.46%. And the median was 3.07%.

Warning Sign:

General Mills Inc stock dividend yield is close to 3-year low.

* 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.

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