GIS·General Mills, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

29.2% 92nd pct

Below its peak

-64.7%

vs 200-day average

-16.6%

Up days (1y)

47%

General Mills, Inc. is currently running 29.2% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against GIS's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 92nd percentile — an extreme by its own standards, against a typical reading of 19.2%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

GIS is trading -64.7% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -16.9%, and the deepest was -39.0% in 2018. The current drawdown is already deeper than this stock's typical annual low point, which puts it in the part of its range where past recoveries began — and where past declines also continued.

Price sits -16.6% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 6th percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year GIS closed higher on 47% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a rising streak.

On October specifically: over 14 years of records, GIS finished the month higher 9 of 14 times, with a median return of +1.4% and an average of -0.3%. Its strongest month historically has been March at +1.9% on average, its weakest September at -3.1%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: GIS has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 29 of 3,268 sessions (0.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +4.5% and -6.8%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, GIS moved an average of 0.8% in the session after earnings, closing higher 2 of those 3 times, with a median move of +0.0% and a largest of -2.2%.

All figures computed from 3,269 daily closes between 2013-10-15 and 2026-10-14, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against GIS's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.