Screener / SEC EDGAR /CIK 0000040704 /10-K filed Jul 1, 2026, compared with Jun 26, 2025 /Numbers from the XBRL of the 10-Ks
NYSE Consumer staples · Packaged Foods

General Mills GIS

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Cash returned and share count, year to May 31, 2026

Bought back $500.3M of its own shares, 6.3× what it paid in stock

XBRL, latest 10-K
Buybacks $500.3M cash paid for its own shares
Paid in stock to employees $79.4M stock-based compensation
Share count, 1 year -3.5% fewer shares: each share owns more
Share count, 3 years -10.6% diluted average shares

New shares against shares bought back

Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks · S-3 and 424B, 3 years; 10-K

Shares offered

Since Nov 15, 2023: 1 shelf registration; also 5 notes offerings.

“Common Stock General Mills, Inc. from time to time may offer to sell, together or separately, debt securities described in this prospectus (“Debt Securities”) or shares of General Mills’ common stock, par value $0.10 per share (“Common Stock,” and together with the Debt Securities, the “Securities”).”

S-3ASR, Nov 15, 2024
Every offering filing

Paid in stock

$79.4M

stock-based pay, year to May 31, 2026; shares sold for $500K in cash

Bought back

$500.3M

cash paid for its own shares, year to May 31, 2026: 6.3× the stock pay

Diluted shares: 537.70M in the year to May 31, 2026 2026 -3.6%2025 -3.8%2024 -3.6%2023 -1.9%

Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. How

Net share count, 4 years

Shares, buybacks and stock pay, fiscal years 2022 to 2026 · 10-K XBRL

-12.2% shares
Share count -12.2% diluted average shares, 4 years to May 31, 2026, splits taken out
Bought back $5.1B cash paid for its own shares, summed over the 4 years
Paid in stock $378.1M stock-based compensation, and $301.3M received for shares sold, summed over the same years
Fiscal yearShares, changeBought backPaid in stockCash from shares sold
May 31, 2026 -3.6% $500.3M $79.4M $500K
May 25, 2025 -3.8% $1.2B $91.7M $43.0M
May 26, 2024 -3.6% $2.0B $95.3M $25.5M
May 28, 2023 -1.9% $1.4B $111.7M $232.3M

Each year's change is the diluted weighted average share count against the year before, with stock splits taken out; the headline change compares the two ends of the span on one basis. Buybacks and stock pay are added up over the same years. Buybacks that only offset stock pay leave the count flat: both are shown, no verdict. How

Where the cash came from and where it went

FY2024 to FY2026, from the cash flow statements in the 10-Ks, added up

Operating cash flowDebt raisedCash on hand usedOther, netCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacksDividendsDebt repaid Operating cash flow: $8.4B Operating cash flow $8.4B Debt raised: $6.4B Debt raised $6.4B Cash on hand used: $93.8M Cash on hand used $93.8M Other, net: $1.6B Other, net $1.6B Capital spending: $1.9B Capital spending $1.9B Acquisitions: $1.9B Acquisitions $1.9B Buybacks: $3.7B Buybacks $3.7B Dividends: $4.0B Dividends $4.0B Debt repaid: $5.0B Debt repaid $5.0B

Went to

Capital spending $1.9B
Acquisitions $1.9B
Buybacks $3.7B
Dividends
PaymentsOfDividends, 0001193125-25-147079; PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock, 0001628280-26-046466
$4.0B
Debt repaid $5.0B

Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.

Where the operating cash went, year by year

FY2017 to FY2026 · cash flow statements, 10-K XBRL

10 years
Operating cash, added up $29.2B 10 fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026
Reinvested 60% capital spending and acquisitions, as a share of that cash
Returned to owners 72% buybacks and dividends, as a share of that cash
Debt repaid $16.7B gross repayments added up; debt that was refinanced counts each time
Fiscal yearOperating cashCapital spendingAcquisitionsBuybacksDividendsDebt repaid
May 31, 2026 $2.2B $539.9M-$500.3M$1.3B$2.8B
May 25, 2025 $2.9B $625.3M$1.4B$1.2B$1.3B$1.3B
May 26, 2024 $3.3B $774.1M$451.9M$2.0B$1.4B$901.5M
May 28, 2023 $2.8B $689.5M$251.5M$1.4B$1.3B$1.4B
May 29, 2022 $3.3B $568.7M$1.2B$876.8M$1.2B$3.1B
May 30, 2021 $3.0B $530.8M-$301.4M$1.2B$2.6B
May 31, 2020 $3.7B $460.8M-$3.4M$1.2B$1.4B
May 26, 2019 $2.8B $537.6M-$1.1M$1.2B$1.5B
May 27, 2018 $2.8B $622.7M$8.0B$601.6M$1.1B$600.1M
May 28, 2017 $2.4B $684.4M-$1.7B$1.1B$1.0B
Added up$29.2B $6.0B
21% of operating cash
$11.4B
39% of operating cash
$8.5B
29% of operating cash
$12.4B
43% of operating cash
$16.7B
57% of operating cash

Each bar is one fiscal year; its colours add up to what the cash flow statement says the company spent on each line, and the line across it is that year's operating cash flow. Spending above the line was paid from new debt, shares sold or cash on hand. A bar part links to the 10-K it comes from. A line the company did not report is left out, not estimated, so the shares are of operating cash only and can add up to more or less than 100%. Debt repaid is the gross amount, so refinanced debt is counted each time it is repaid. A reading aid, not a grade: Tickdelta does not say whether a split was good. Banks and insurers are left out.

Buybacks, dividends and share count

Year by year · XBRL, each 10-K

Fiscal year toBuybacksDividendsDiluted shares
May 31, 2026$500.3M $1.3B 537.70M
May 25, 2025$1.2B $1.3B 557.50M
May 26, 2024$2.0B $1.4B 579.50M
May 28, 2023$1.4B $1.3B 601.20M
May 29, 2022$876.8M $1.2B 612.60M

From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividendsCommonStock; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; issuance = ProceedsFromStockOptionsExercised; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.

Dividend per share, year by year

Dividends · declared per share, each 10-K; cash paid, cash flow statement

Per share, FY2026 $2.44 declared in the fiscal year to May 31, 2026
Against the year before ▲+1.7% dividend per share
Years in a row raised 6 to FY2026, per share
Cash paid out $1.3B cash flow statement, FY2026
Years paid in a row 10+ fiscal years, to FY2026, every year on file, dividend per share above zero
Growth a year, FY2017 to FY2026 +2.7% $1.92 to $2.44 per share, 9 years

Declared since the 10-K: Aug 30, 2026 $0.61

Fiscal year toPer shareAgainst year beforeCash paid out
May 31, 2026 $2.44 ▲+1.7% $1.3B
May 25, 2025 $2.40 ▲+1.7% $1.3B
May 26, 2024 $2.36 ▲+9.3% $1.4B
May 28, 2023 $2.16 ▲+5.9% $1.3B
May 29, 2022 $2.04 ▲+1.0% $1.2B
May 30, 2021 $2.02 ▲+3.1% -
May 31, 2020 $1.96 0.0% -
May 26, 2019 $1.96 0.0% -

Dividend per share as the company tagged it (CommonStockDividendsPerShareDeclared), from the latest 10-K that reports each year, so a stock split is already in it. A change is left blank when the year before is missing or the jump is more than five times.

Buybacks month by month, and what is left to buy

Share buybacks · 10-Q, Part II Item 2, latest 4 quarters

MonthShares boughtAverage price
Aug 2025 1,295,465 $49.45

Shares and average price are the numbers in the 10-Q table, row by row; "shares × price" is our multiplication of the two. A row with a price of "-" is an accelerated repurchase paid up front, where the 10-Q does not give a price yet. A 10-Q that counts shares in millions gives a rounded number, shown as "about". Shares withheld for employees' taxes are not in this table. A month that no 10-Q table gives, or that this page could not read with confidence, is not shown.

What it paid for each share it bought back

Price paid · 10-K, statement of shareholders' equity

Cheapest year $34.00 fiscal year to May 31, 2020
Dearest year $77.98 fiscal year to May 28, 2023
Average over these years $64.91 $9.2B spent

What GIS paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.

Fiscal year toShares boughtSpentAverage price
May 31, 2026 10.00M$504.7M $50.47
May 25, 2025 18.70M$1.2B $64.89
May 26, 2024 29.20M$2.0B $69.22
May 28, 2023 18.00M$1.4B $77.98
May 29, 2022 13.50M$876.8M $64.95
May 30, 2021 5.00M$301.4M $60.28
May 31, 2020 100K$3.4M $34.00
May 27, 2018 10.90M$601.6M $55.19
May 28, 2017 25.40M$1.7B $65.02
May 29, 2016 10.70M$606.7M $56.70

Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out.

What the 10-Ks show for each CEO's years

Each CEO's years · the CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table

Jeffrey L. Harmening

FY2022 to FY2026 · 5 years in the table
Operating cash flow
$14.5B
Capital spending
$3.2B
Acquisitions
$3.3B
Buybacks
$6.0B
Dividends
$6.5B
Stock-based pay
$476.8M
Diluted shares since FY2021
-13.1%
Revenue since FY2021
+2%
Debt since FY2021
+$926.0M
CEO pay (reported)
$71.2M
The proxy that names the CEO

Sources

The cash flow statement, dividends per share and diluted share count in each 10-K's XBRL; Part II Item 2 of each 10-Q for monthly buybacks; offering prospectuses (S-3, 424B) for new shares; Form D data sets for private raises.

Also

CEO pay: what the CEO was paid over the same years.

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