R&D expense · 2011–2025

General Mills R&D expense

$256M−0.2% · FY2025

General Mills (GIS) reported $256M in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, −0.2% year on year.

$245M2011$238M2012$244M2013$229M2014$222M2015$218M2016$219M2017$222M2018$224M2019$239M2020$243M2021$258M2022$258M2023$257M2024$256M2025
General Mills — R&D expense, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252026-05-31$256M−0.2%Open →
FY20242025-05-25$257M−0.5%Open →
FY20232024-05-26$258M+0.1%Open →
FY20222023-05-28$258M+6.0%Open →
FY20212022-05-29$243M+1.6%Open →
FY20202021-05-30$239M+6.6%Open →
FY20192020-05-31$224M+1.1%Open →
FY20182019-05-26$222M+1.3%Open →
FY20172018-05-27$219M+0.4%Open →
FY20162017-05-28$218M−1.8%Open →
FY20152016-05-29$222M−3.2%Open →
FY20142015-05-31$229M−5.8%Open →
FY20132014-05-25$244M+2.4%Open →
FY20122013-05-26$238M−3.1%Open →
FY20112012-05-27$245M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth +0.3%

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Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{General Mills R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/general-mills/research-and-development-expense}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001628280-26-046466 · July 1, 2026

{{cite web |title=General Mills R&D expense — 10-K (0001628280-26-046466) |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40704/000162828026046466/gis-20260531.htm |website=SEC EDGAR |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-07-01}}

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