Is it safe?
Can GIS take a bad year?
General Mills carries $13.1B of net debt at 9.07× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$13.1B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 9.07×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.77× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.08
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.84×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ4 2026
- $13.5B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $461M
- Net debt
- $13.1B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.44B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $886M
- Debt / equity
- 1.84×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 9.39×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −60%
- Below its 52-week high
- −18%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.