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 $2,093 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 $1,368, which works out to a +1.9% annualized real growth rate over 17 years.

Nominal final value

$2,093

+109.3% total return

Real value (2010 dollars)

$1,368

+36.8% real total return

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Real annualized return

+1.9%

vs. +4.5% 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$1,005$966
2012$1,188$1,118
2013$1,292$1,191
2014$1,525$1,385
2015$1,720$1,562
2016$1,910$1,711
2017$2,175$1,905
2018$2,108$1,791
2019$1,675$1,391
2020$2,043$1,669
2021$2,351$1,828
2022$2,871$2,045
2023$3,367$2,311
2024$2,882$1,921
2025$2,769$1,810
2026$2,236$1,462

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.