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StockGeneral Mills, Inc.
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This is the kind of decline worth waking up for.
General Mills, Inc. is 51.4% off its high — among the deepest declines in its recorded history.
And it's not just the price: General Mills, Inc.'s P/S Severity Score is 9.8 — historically low valuation vs its own history.
Extreme
Current Drawdown
-51.4%
Days in Drawdown
1183
Avg Max Drawdown
3.6%
Avg Length
42
Drawdown Severity Score™
11.8
GIS - Price & High Water Mark
GIS - Drawdown Timeline
How to read this chart: Negative values indicate drawdowns from all-time highs. Values closer to 0% mean the stock is near its high water mark.
Valuation vs Its Own History
Data as of August 22, 2026 · updated daily
Where today's valuation sits within GIS's own multi-year range, scored with the same Drawdown Severity Score language as price, measured from its typical level rather than its record high — a higher score means it has rarely been cheaper. This is context, not a recommendation.
Price to Sales
General Mills, Inc. has been cheaper on this measure only about 2% of the time in 20 years of daily history.
Price to Sales history
EV to EBITDA
General Mills, Inc. has been cheaper on this measure only about 2% of the time in 20 years of daily history.
EV to EBITDA history · log scale
General Mills, Inc. (GIS) Analysis: Current Drawdown Insights
General Mills, Inc. is currently in a drawdown that is unusual by its own historical standards. As of 2026-08-21, the stock is trading at $39.97, which represents a 51.4% decline from its all-time high of $82.18. This drawdown has persisted for 1183 days.
Based on its full tracked price history, General Mills, Inc. typically experiences drawdowns averaging 3.6% in depth, with an average duration of 42 days. General Mills, Inc. has gone through 310 total drawdown events in its tracked history. The largest drawdown on record for General Mills, Inc. was 45.1%, beginning in 2016. The longest drawdown duration on record was 1394 days.
The Drawdown Severity Score™ for General Mills, Inc. currently stands at 11.83. This is our proprietary indicator that shows the relative severity of the current drawdown based on the asset's unique historical patterns. A score between 8.0 and 12.0 indicates an extremely rare, severe drawdown: the asset almost never experiences declines of this magnitude in its tracked history.
Understanding Drawdowns: A drawdown measures how far a stock has fallen from its peak price. Every stock experiences drawdowns: periods when the price declines from all-time highs before recovering. By analyzing General Mills, Inc.'s historical drawdown patterns, investors can identify when the stock is experiencing a typical market fluctuation versus an unusual decline that is rare by that stock's own historical standards.
📜 Historical Drawdown Events
Current drawdown shown in blue. Showing the most recent and the deepest of 310 tracked pullbacks (67 listed).
| Start Date | End Date | Duration | Max Depth | Start Price | Lowest Price | Recovery Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-26 | Ongoing | 1183 days | -51.4% | $82.18 | $39.97 | n/a |
| 2023-05-09 | 2023-05-11 | 3 days | -0.3% | $81.51 | $81.24 | $81.87 |
| 2023-05-02 | 2023-05-04 | 3 days | -0.6% | $81.06 | $80.57 | $81.09 |
| 2023-04-28 | 2023-05-01 | 4 days | -0.2% | $80.53 | $80.39 | $81.06 |
| 2023-04-26 | 2023-04-27 | 2 days | -0.7% | $80.27 | $79.71 | $80.53 |
| 2023-04-21 | 2023-04-24 | 4 days | -0.1% | $79.43 | $79.32 | $79.47 |
| 2023-04-19 | 2023-04-20 | 2 days | -0.4% | $79.35 | $79.03 | $79.43 |
| 2023-04-12 | 2023-04-17 | 6 days | -0.6% | $78.96 | $78.51 | $78.99 |
| 2023-04-10 | 2023-04-11 | 2 days | -0.6% | $78.82 | $78.32 | $78.96 |
| 2022-12-09 | 2023-04-05 | 117 days | -13.7% | $78.42 | $67.70 | $78.47 |
| 2022-12-05 | 2022-12-07 | 3 days | -1.3% | $77.50 | $76.48 | $78.12 |
| 2022-11-28 | 2022-11-30 | 3 days | -0.2% | $74.32 | $74.20 | $76.40 |
| 2022-11-01 | 2022-11-21 | 21 days | -5.7% | $73.07 | $68.94 | $73.43 |
| 2022-09-23 | 2022-10-28 | 36 days | -6.5% | $71.85 | $67.15 | $73.06 |
| 2022-08-25 | 2022-09-21 | 28 days | -5.2% | $69.78 | $66.13 | $70.91 |
| 2022-08-22 | 2022-08-24 | 3 days | -0.6% | $69.35 | $68.94 | $69.78 |
| 2022-08-11 | 2022-08-19 | 9 days | -1.2% | $69.01 | $68.17 | $69.35 |
| 2022-07-14 | 2022-08-09 | 27 days | -4.4% | $67.98 | $65.02 | $68.52 |
| 2022-07-07 | 2022-07-11 | 5 days | -0.2% | $67.32 | $67.17 | $67.39 |
| 2022-07-05 | 2022-07-06 | 2 days | -0.8% | $66.94 | $66.37 | $67.32 |
| 2022-05-10 | 2022-06-29 | 51 days | -10.0% | $64.91 | $58.41 | $65.99 |
| 2022-04-22 | 2022-05-09 | 18 days | -5.1% | $64.64 | $61.36 | $64.91 |
| 2022-04-18 | 2022-04-19 | 2 days | -0.1% | $62.64 | $62.57 | $63.34 |
| 2022-04-12 | 2022-04-13 | 2 days | -0.1% | $62.27 | $62.20 | $62.42 |
| 2022-01-18 | 2022-04-07 | 79 days | -10.9% | $61.28 | $54.59 | $61.60 |
| 2022-01-11 | 2022-01-13 | 3 days | -0.6% | $60.29 | $59.91 | $60.41 |
| 2021-12-17 | 2022-01-07 | 22 days | -5.5% | $59.92 | $56.62 | $60.12 |
| 2021-12-14 | 2021-12-15 | 2 days | -0.0% | $57.37 | $57.36 | $58.60 |
| 2021-12-08 | 2021-12-10 | 3 days | -0.9% | $56.19 | $55.67 | $56.35 |
| 2021-11-16 | 2021-12-03 | 18 days | -3.6% | $55.43 | $53.46 | $55.89 |
| 2021-11-11 | 2021-11-15 | 5 days | -1.0% | $55.28 | $54.74 | $55.43 |
| 2021-11-04 | 2021-11-09 | 6 days | -0.8% | $54.94 | $54.51 | $54.97 |
| 2020-08-05 | 2021-11-03 | 456 days | -15.9% | $54.85 | $46.14 | $54.94 |
| 2020-07-15 | 2020-08-04 | 21 days | -2.9% | $54.37 | $52.79 | $54.85 |
| 2020-05-14 | 2020-07-10 | 58 days | -6.8% | $52.62 | $49.02 | $53.02 |
| 2016-07-20 | 2020-05-13 | 1394 days | -45.1% | $52.23 | $28.68 | $52.62 |
| 2016-07-11 | 2016-07-19 | 9 days | -1.4% | $52.10 | $51.35 | $52.23 |
| 2016-07-07 | 2016-07-08 | 2 days | -0.1% | $51.83 | $51.78 | $52.10 |
| 2016-06-24 | 2016-06-29 | 6 days | -1.5% | $47.69 | $46.97 | $48.47 |
| 2016-06-22 | 2016-06-23 | 2 days | -0.2% | $47.51 | $47.43 | $47.69 |
| 2016-06-13 | 2016-06-16 | 4 days | -0.9% | $46.72 | $46.32 | $46.98 |
| 2016-04-05 | 2016-06-09 | 66 days | -7.4% | $46.35 | $42.94 | $46.67 |
| 2016-03-21 | 2016-03-28 | 8 days | -1.6% | $43.82 | $43.11 | $43.88 |
| 2016-03-14 | 2016-03-15 | 2 days | -0.3% | $43.30 | $43.18 | $43.43 |
| 2016-03-07 | 2016-03-09 | 3 days | -1.0% | $42.69 | $42.28 | $42.86 |
| 2016-02-26 | 2016-03-04 | 8 days | -2.1% | $42.65 | $41.73 | $42.69 |
| 2015-10-23 | 2016-02-23 | 124 days | -7.9% | $41.68 | $38.38 | $41.71 |
| 2015-08-07 | 2015-10-22 | 77 days | -8.4% | $41.57 | $38.06 | $41.68 |
| 2015-07-31 | 2015-08-03 | 4 days | -0.1% | $40.67 | $40.64 | $41.14 |
| 2015-07-23 | 2015-07-30 | 8 days | -1.2% | $40.23 | $39.74 | $40.67 |
| 2015-07-14 | 2015-07-22 | 9 days | -1.2% | $40.15 | $39.66 | $40.23 |
| 2010-06-18 | 2011-04-20 | 307 days | -13.1% | $23.06 | $20.04 | $23.22 |
| 2008-10-02 | 2009-11-13 | 408 days | -31.8% | $19.74 | $13.47 | $19.75 |
| 2005-02-02 | 2006-05-25 | 477 days | -15.7% | $13.76 | $11.60 | $13.81 |
| 2001-12-28 | 2004-12-23 | 1092 days | -26.1% | $12.60 | $9.31 | $12.62 |
| 2001-03-06 | 2001-09-10 | 188 days | -18.1% | $10.78 | $8.83 | $10.83 |
| 1999-11-01 | 2000-12-22 | 418 days | -30.5% | $9.82 | $6.83 | $9.87 |
| 1997-12-12 | 1998-12-01 | 355 days | -21.2% | $8.30 | $6.54 | $8.33 |
| 1997-02-12 | 1997-07-03 | 141 days | -14.0% | $7.12 | $6.13 | $7.14 |
| 1993-03-11 | 1995-09-27 | 930 days | -30.2% | $5.58 | $3.89 | $5.60 |
| 1992-01-06 | 1993-03-10 | 430 days | -21.2% | $5.55 | $4.37 | $5.58 |
| 1990-07-13 | 1990-11-30 | 141 days | -17.1% | $3.33 | $2.76 | $3.38 |
| 1989-12-04 | 1990-04-09 | 126 days | -17.0% | $2.66 | $2.21 | $2.67 |
| 1987-08-24 | 1989-03-16 | 571 days | -31.6% | $1.98 | $1.36 | $1.99 |
| 1987-03-27 | 1987-05-14 | 48 days | -17.6% | $1.71 | $1.41 | $1.74 |
| 1986-11-05 | 1987-01-09 | 66 days | -14.9% | $1.47 | $1.25 | $1.48 |
| 1986-08-05 | 1986-11-04 | 92 days | -16.0% | $1.42 | $1.19 | $1.47 |
| 1986-03-17 | 1986-06-19 | 94 days | -12.9% | $1.24 | $1.08 | $1.26 |
How to read: Each row shows a complete drawdown from peak to recovery. Red rows = most severe drawdowns (worst 20% or 5x+ average), yellow rows = moderate (2x-5x worse than average).
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General Mills, Inc. (GIS) is trading at $39.97 as of Aug 21, 2026. It is 51.4% below its high of $82.18. The drawdown has lasted 1,183 days. Severity score: 11.8 (Extreme).
GIS Price History and Drawdown Data
Latest price
$39.97
High-water mark
$82.18
Current drawdown
-51.4%
Days in drawdown
1,183
This GIS page is built around daily price history, the latest high-water mark, current drawdown depth, drawdown duration, and comparable historical drawdown events. The chart above provides the price-history context, while the sections below explain how the current move compares with prior General Mills, Inc. drawdowns.
What History Says About GIS
General Mills, Inc. has dropped 20%+ from its high 8 times in its tracked history. These events lasted an average of 700 days with an average max drop of -29.7%.
The current drawdown of -51.4% has lasted 1,183 days, which is 1.7x the average duration of comparable events.
| Period | Max Drop | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 2016 to May 2020 | -45.1% | 1394 days |
| Oct 2008 to Nov 2009 | -31.8% | 408 days |
| Aug 1987 to Mar 1989 | -31.6% | 571 days |
| Nov 1999 to Dec 2000 | -30.5% | 418 days |
| Mar 1993 to Sep 1995 | -30.2% | 930 days |
| Dec 2001 to Dec 2004 | -26.1% | 1092 days |
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