General Mills (General Mills) Dividend Yield % : 3.34% (As of Apr. 26, 2024)

General Mills Dividend Yield % Chart

General Mills Annual Data
	Trend	May14	May15	May16	May17	May18	May19	May20	May21	May22	May23
Dividend Yield %		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					3.96	3.11	3.21	2.92	2.57

General Mills Quarterly Data
	May19	Aug19	Nov19	Feb20	May20	Aug20	Nov20	Feb21	May21	Aug21	Nov21	Feb22	May22	Aug22	Nov22	Feb23	May23	Aug23	Nov23	Feb24
Dividend Yield %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															2.68	2.57	3.27	3.55	3.60

Competitive Comparison of General Mills's Dividend Yield %

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, General Mills's Dividend Yield %, along with its competitors' market caps and Dividend Yield % 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 Dividend Yield % Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, General Mills's Dividend Yield % distribution charts can be found below:

* 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

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* 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

Current Share Price is $70.83.
General Mills's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $2.36.

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

Current Share Price is $70.83.
General Mills's Dividends per Share for the forward twelve months is calculated as $0.59 * 4 = $2.36.

* 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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