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Understanding Why General Mills Stock Is Sliding Today.

General Mills shares fell -1.0% this afternoon to a price of $69.91. The stock is still trading within range of its average target price of $71.08, and over the last 52 weeks, it has recorded a -21.4% performance. Analysts have given the Large-Cap Food Chains stock target prices ranging from $61.0 to $77.0 dollars per share, with an average rating of hold.

The stock has an average amount of shares sold short at 2.7%, and a short ratio of 2.98. The company's insiders own 0.21% of its outstanding shares, which indicates a strong alignment between management and shareholder interests. Finally, we also note that a significant number of institutional investors are invested in the stock, with 81.1% of General Mills's shares being owned by this investor type.

Institutions Invested in General Mills

Date Reported Holder Percentage Shares Value
2023-12-31 Blackrock Inc. 10% 54,520,408 $3,811,521,922
2023-12-31 Vanguard Group Inc 9% 51,854,568 $3,625,153,038
2023-12-31 State Street Corporation 6% 31,499,161 $2,202,106,460
2023-12-31 Capital International Investors 5% 26,465,995 $1,850,237,807
2023-12-31 Geode Capital Management, LLC 2% 11,873,839 $830,100,127
2023-12-31 Capital Research Global Investors 2% 11,162,047 $780,338,746
2023-12-31 Morgan Stanley 2% 8,683,604 $607,070,787
2023-12-31 Goldman Sachs Group Inc 1% 7,432,459 $519,603,235
2023-12-31 Northern Trust Corporation 1% 7,348,525 $513,735,409
2023-12-31 Capital World Investors 1% 7,074,884 $494,605,166

Besides an analyst consensus of some upside potential, other market factors point to there being mixed market sentiment on General Mills.

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