General Mills vs Post
GIS and POST side by side, both in food and kindred products. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.
How GIS and POST compare
General Mills is the larger company, worth 5.1 times as much as Post ($18.3B against $3.6B).
Post grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (6.2% versus −4.5% for General Mills).
Post keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 3.5% compared with −4.9% at General Mills.
General Mills pays a dividend yielding 7.1%; Post does not pay one.
Post scores higher on the StockData Score (13 against 7 for General Mills), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.
Key numbers
A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.
| Metric | GIS | POST |
|---|---|---|
| Size and price | ||
| Market cap | $18.3B | $3.6B |
| Share price | $34.29 | $81.65 |
| Change, 1 year | −26.4% | −23.6% |
| Change, 5 years | −45.3% | −22.2% |
| Beta (5Y) | 0.04 | 0.36 |
| Employees | 30K | 13K |
| StockData Score | ||
| Total score | 7 | 13 (better) |
| Valuation score | 2 | 6 (better) |
| Growth score | 0 | 3 (better) |
| Performance score | 0 | 3 (better) |
| Health score | 0 | 1 (better) |
| Dividend score | 5 (better) | 0 |
| Valuation | ||
| P/E | – | 15.1× |
| P/S | 1.0× | 0.4× (better) |
| P/B | 2.5× | 1.2× (better) |
| EV/EBITDA | 90.1× | 8.0× (better) |
| P/FCF | 11.9× | 6.5× (better) |
| FCF yield | 8.4% | 15.4% (better) |
| Fair value | $50.01 | $156.58 |
| Margin of safety | 31.4% | 47.9% (better) |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth (TTM) | −4.5% | 6.2% (better) |
| Revenue growth, 5Y average | 53.1% (better) | 11.6% |
| Net income growth (TTM) | −131% | −20.0% (better) |
| EPS growth (TTM) | −131% | −7.5% (better) |
| EPS growth, 5Y average | – | 253% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 33.6% (better) | 28.8% |
| Operating margin | −1.1% | 9.6% (better) |
| Net margin | −4.9% | 3.5% (better) |
| FCF margin | 8.5% (better) | 6.6% |
| Return on equity | −10.6% | 8.3% (better) |
| Return on invested capital | −0.75% | 5.8% (better) |
| Financial health | ||
| Debt / equity | 1.83 (better) | 2.48 |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 37.68 | 5.34 (better) |
| Interest coverage | – | 1.9× |
| Current ratio | 0.70 | 1.85 (better) |
| Altman Z-score | 1.93 (better) | 1.43 |
| Piotroski F-score | 4 | 4 |
| Dividends and buybacks | ||
| Dividend yield | 7.1% | – |
| Years of dividend growth | 6 | – |
| Dividend growth, 5Y average | 3.9% | – |
| Buyback yield | 0.00% | 33.2% (better) |
| Shareholder yield | 7.1% | 33.2% (better) |
| Ownership | ||
| Held by institutions | 87.8% | 103% |
| Held by insiders | 0.48% | 15.7% |
| Insider net buying, 12 months | −$1.0M (better) | −$34.7M |
| Short interest, % of float | 7.7% | 15.0% |
Go deeper
- GIS stock overview
- GIS income statement
- GIS valuation and score
- POST stock overview
- POST income statement
- POST valuation and score
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