GIS options flow: unusual options activity in General Mills Inc.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

Over the last week the tape recorded 27 unusual options prints in General Mills Inc. (GIS), $2.0M of tracked premium, leaning firmly bearish. Bullish premium was $441K against $1.5M bearish; $628K went into calls and $1.4M into puts, a put call ratio of 2.24. The largest print was $520K of GIS 20 Nov 2026 $35 puts on 25 September 2026, swept at ask. The last session with prints, 25 September 2026, added 12 prints and $1.3M of premium. GIS closed at $33.64 on 25 September 2026, down 3.4%.

This week's unusual flow

Prints from 21 September 2026 to 25 September 2026, 5 sessions. Delayed tier: every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints of the week

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $957K, is aimed at the 20 Nov 2026 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 16 Oct 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 25 September 2026

Every print in GIS with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open GIS in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open GIS in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 15 firms, have a median of $37, 10.0% above the last close.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About General Mills Inc.

Exchange

NYSE

Sector

Consumer Staples

Industry

Food Products

Headquarters

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Website

generalmills.com

General Mills, Inc. manufactures and markets branded consumer foods worldwide. It offers ready-to-eat cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, and meal kits. It also supplies branded and unbranded food products to North American foodservice and commercial baking industries. The company markets its products under the Annie's, Betty Crocker, Bisquick, Blue Buffalo, Blue Basics, Blue Freedom, Bugles, Cascadian Farm, Cheerios, Chex, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cocoa Puffs, Cookie Crisp, Fruit Gushers, Fruit Roll-Ups, Gardetto's, Go-G

In the same sector

Flow pages for other Consumer Staples names in the S&P 500:

WMT Walmart Inc.COST Costco Wholesale Corp.KO Coca Cola Co.PG Procter & Gamble Co.PM Philip Morris International Inc.PEP PepsiCo Inc.MO Altria Group, Inc.MNST Monster Beverage Corp.

Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints