What if you invested $1,000 in General Mills in 2010? (Inflation-Adjusted)

GIS · Consumer · Adjusted to 2026 dollars using BLS CPI-U data

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General Mills turned $1,000 into $1,800 between 2010 and today. Impressive on paper, but inflation over that span came to 53% (BLS CPI-U). Adjusted for that erosion in purchasing power, your real gain in constant 2010 dollars is $1,176, which works out to a +1.0% annualized real growth rate over 16 years.

Nominal final value

$1,800

+80.0% total return

Real value (2010 dollars)

$1,176

+17.6% real total return

Real annualized return

+1.0%

vs. +3.7% nominal annualized

Cumulative CPI-U inflation since 2010: 53% (1 dollar in 2010 = $1.53 in 2026)

Year-by-Year (Inflation-Adjusted)

$1,000 in General Mills since 2010, values in constant 2010 dollars

YearNominal ValueReal Value (2010 $)
2010$1,000$1,000
2011$1,004$965
2012$1,187$1,117
2013$1,291$1,189
2014$1,524$1,384
2015$1,718$1,561
2016$1,909$1,709
2017$2,173$1,903
2018$2,106$1,789
2019$1,667$1,384
2020$2,038$1,665
2021$2,347$1,825
2022$2,869$2,044
2023$3,370$2,312
2024$2,876$1,917
2025$2,761$1,804
2026$2,221$1,451

Inflation adjustment uses BLS CPI-U annual data, deflated to 2026 dollars. Nominal stock data from Yahoo Finance (split-adjusted closing prices). Real values are expressed in constant 2010 purchasing-power dollars. For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. See our methodology and full disclaimer.