General Mills Earnings: What To Look For From GIS

Packaged foods company General Mills (NYSE:GIS) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before market open. Here’s what you need to know.

General Mills missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.71 billion, down 6.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ organic revenue growth estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting General Mills’s revenue to decline 2.1% year on year to $4.8 billion, a reversal from the 4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.06 per share.

The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. General Mills has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.

With General Mills being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for consumer staples stocks. However, investors in the segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.4% on average over the last month. General Mills is up 6.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $71.53 (compared to the current share price of $74.65).

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