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The past year was a good investment year for General Mills investors

The stock gained over the past 12 months at around 7 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a profitable period for the investors. The stock rose on average 53 percent. General Mills's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 16,66 billion dollars and 17,63 billion dollars. The net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and fluctuated between 1,71 billion dollars and 1,18 billion dollars.

General Mills's main office is based in Minneapolis. The core activities of General Mills are in the food sector. K. J. Powell is the company' CEO. D. L. Mulligan leads the company as CFO. The global food producers gained around 76 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 73 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-2016) there is a plus of 76 percent.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. General Mills's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 6,88 percent per year.

General Mills had about 43 thousand employees at the end of 2015.

General Mills financed with a quite low debt position

At the end of 2015 the food producer's balance sheet equaled 21,96 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 16,97 billion dollars. This is around 77,25 percent of the total balance sheet. At the end of 2015 the food producer's stock was traded with a price/earnings-ratio 20. So the stock' value was 20 times the 2015' earnings per share. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the food producer's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 34,01 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 598,7 million stocks listed.

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