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General Mills Dividend Yield %

: 3.16% (As of Today)
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As of today (2021-05-11), the Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of General Mills is 3.16%.

Warning Sign:

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

NYSE:GIS' s Dividend Yield % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.46   Med: 3.07   Max: 5.24
Current: 3.16
2.46
5.24

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%.

NYSE:GIS's Dividend Yield % is ranked higher than
78% of the 927 Companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry.

( Industry Median: 1.78 vs. NYSE:GIS: 3.16 )

General Mills's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Feb. 2021 was 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.

As of today (2021-05-11), the Forward Dividend Yield % of General Mills is 3.20%.

General Mills's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Feb. 2021 was $0.51.

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.

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.

The growth rate is calculated with least square regression.

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General Mills Dividend Yield % Historical Data

* 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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General Mills Annual Data
May11 May12 May13 May14 May15 May16 May17 May18 May19 May20
Dividend Yield % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.84 3.38 4.63 3.96 3.11

General Mills Quarterly Data
May16 Aug16 Nov16 Feb17 May17 Aug17 Nov17 Feb18 May18 Aug18 Nov18 Feb19 May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21
Dividend Yield % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.00 3.11 3.06 3.26 3.64
Competitive Comparison
* 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.

General Mills Dividend Yield % Distribution

* The bar in red indicates where General Mills's Dividend Yield % falls into.


General Mills Dividend Yield % Calculation

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 Trailing Annual Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Trailing Annual 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.

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

Forward Annual Dividend Yield=Forward Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=2.04/63.83
=3.20 %

Current Share Price is $63.83.
General Mills's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.51 * 4 = $2.04.

* 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) Dividend Yield % Explanation

Over the long term, the return from dividends has been a significant contributor to the total returns produced by equity securities. Studies by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton of Princeton University (2002) found that a market-oriented portfolio, which included reinvested dividends, would have generated nearly 85 times the wealth generated by the same portfolio relying solely on capital gains.

Dividends may also qualify a lower tax rate for investors.

In dividends investing, Payout Ratio and Dividend Growth Rate are the two most important variables for consideration. A lower payout ratio may indicate that the company has more room to increase its dividends.

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