General Mills (GIS) Shareholders Face Persistent Challenges Amid Market Decline
General Mills (GIS) continues to underperform, with shares down 29% over the past year and 25.3% over three years. The stock has become a 'lobster pot'—easy to enter but difficult to exit without losses. Structural headwinds, including shifting consumer preferences and the rise of GLP-1 weight loss drugs, compound pricing pressures and commodity inflation.
Fiscal Q1 results confirmed declining net sales, driven by cost pressures and divestments. Investors hoping for a reversal must rely on management's reiterated sales guidance—a fragile lifeline in a sector grappling with secular decline.