GIS
General Mills, Inc.
Is GIS Halal?
Packaged-food and pet-food manufacturing is generally permissible, but current debt and capital-lease obligations exceed the examined asset-based limits.
What You Should Know
General Mills' fiscal 2026 Form 10-K reports $30,016.7 million of assets, $13,469.6 million of debt and capital-lease obligations, $453.8 million of cash, $2.3 million of identifiable debt securities and $1,646.8 million of current receivables. That produces debt/assets of 44.87%, cash plus identifiable debt securities/assets of 1.52%, and receivables plus cash/assets of 7.00%. Disclosed investment-income interest is $31.0 million against $18,424.6 million of revenue (0.17%). The examined FTSE Yasaar, MSCI total-assets and Malaysia SAC calculations fail on debt; market-cap methods are not calculated. The food and pet-food business is generally permissible at the activity level, but product-level certification and alcohol-flavoring questions are not quantified in the filing.
⚠️ Concerns
- •Current debt and capital-lease obligations are 44.87% of assets, above the examined asset-based limits
- •Not all products or international variants carry external halal certification; verify individual SKUs if that matters to your investment or consumption decision
- •Some formulations may contain animal-derived ingredients or non-halal-certified additives
- •Some Häagen-Dazs and other variants may use alcohol-derived flavorings, but the filing does not quantify related revenue
- •Brazil divestiture, impairment charges, consumer-demand pressure and portfolio reshaping are material business-quality considerations
- •Packaging, sourcing, labor, nutrition and environmental impacts remain broader ethical-diligence topics
- •The filing discloses investment-income interest but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage
Current quantitative Sharia screen
Based on 10-K figures for the period ended 2026-05-31; calculated 2026-07-13.
13,469.6 / 30,016.7
456.1 / 30,016.7
2,100.6 / 30,016.7
31 / 18,424.6
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 44.87%, above the examined 33.333% FTSE asset limit. Liquidity is 1.52%, receivables plus cash are 7.00%, and disclosed interest income is 0.17%; debt is decisive.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 44.87%, above the examined MSCI total-assets limit, while liquidity is 1.52% and receivables plus cash are 7.00%. This is a calculation against the named method, not an index-membership claim.
- Financial
- Fails
- Overall
- Fails
Debt is 44.87%, above the examined 33% Malaysia SAC financial limit; identifiable liquidity is 1.52%. This is a calculation against SAC ratios, not an official classification of a U.S.-listed security.
- Financial
- Not calculated
- Overall
- Not calculated
A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored, so these methods are not estimated from a current spot price.
Business-activity disclosure
General Mills manufactures and sells packaged foods, pet food and related consumer products. Food and pet-food manufacturing are generally permissible at the activity level, while product-level ingredients, certification and alcohol-flavoring questions require separate qualitative review.
Limitation: The filing reports revenue by segment and geography but does not allocate a universal prohibited-revenue numerator by product SKU, ingredient or alcohol-related flavoring; no exact prohibited-revenue percentage is asserted.
Purification
General Mills discloses investment-income interest but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage. Readers should follow the qualified scholar or methodology they use rather than applying an invented fixed rate.
Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
- Inputs use General Mills' May 31, 2026 Form 10-K; amounts are USD millions.
- Debt uses the reported $13,469.6 million of long-term debt and capital-lease obligations, including current maturities. Operating lease liabilities are not added separately.
- Cash uses $453.8 million of cash and cash equivalents. Identifiable interest-bearing securities use $2.3 million of available-for-sale debt securities; equity securities and broader investments are not assumed to be debt instruments.
- Receivables use $1,646.8 million of net current receivables. Inventories, tax receivables and other current assets are not added.
- Fiscal-year revenue is $18,424.6 million. The filing reports $31.0 million of investment-income interest; the screen uses that disclosed interest amount and does not infer a fixed purification rate.
This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.
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