Consumer Staples

General Mills Inc (GIS) options and signal

Figures as of 28 Sep 2026

GIS is General Mills Inc, a Consumer Staples name the model ranks every trading day. The options figures are from the close on 28 Sep 2026. The model's figures are from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind the latest, as the Free plan shows them. Every model figure is paper trading.

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At a glance

Figure	Value	Date
IV rank	99 of 100	28 Sep
At the money IV	34.8%	28 Sep
Priced move to 16 Oct	8.2% down, 7.1% up	28 Sep
Call wall and put wall	37.5 and 35	28 Sep
Signal and the desk's view	No signal, view bearish	25 Sep
Last close	33.60	28 Sep
Next report	23 Dec 2026	28 Sep

Options Snapshot

GIS's IV rank is 99 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
IV rank	99 of 100
At the money IV	34.8%, near month, 18 days
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.06
Call open interest, strikes captured near the price	79,300 contracts
Put open interest, strikes captured near the price	83,700 contracts
Cost to trade at the money	Tight, 8.9% of the option's mid price

IV rank is where the at the money IV sits among GIS's own weekly readings, 0 the lowest and 100 the highest.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Priced Range

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS options priced a move of 8.2 percent down and 7.1 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.

Expiry	Days	Down	Up	Range
16 Oct 2026	18	8.2%	7.1%	30.83 to 35.98
20 Nov 2026	53	12.7%	12.4%	29.32 to 37.76
18 Dec 2026	81	15.9%	14.7%	28.26 to 38.54
15 Jan 2027	109	19.4%	17.7%	27.09 to 39.56
19 Mar 2027	172	24.4%	22.3%	25.40 to 41.08
16 Apr 2027	200	26.8%	24.9%	24.61 to 41.96

The range is one standard deviation either side of the close of 33.60, as the option prices imply it.

A priced move restates option prices at the close and says nothing certain about where the price goes.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Gamma Map

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS's call wall is the 37.5 strike and its put wall is the 35 strike.

Figure	Value
Call wall, most open call gamma	37.5
Put wall, most open put gamma	35
Flip strike, where net gamma changes sign	36.94
Net dollar gamma, calls minus puts	minus $2.31 million
Total dollar gamma, both sides	$9.73 million
Close	33.60

Dollar gamma is stated for a one percent move in the price.

Net is calls minus puts under the standard convention, not a record of who holds the contracts.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility History

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS's at the money IV is 34.8 percent against 20 day realized volatility of 24.1 percent.

Figure	Value
At the money IV	34.8%
Realized volatility, 20 trading days	24.1%
Realized volatility, 60 trading days	32.1%
IV against its own weekly record	High, in the top fifth
Weekly readings on record	865, from 8 Jan 2010
Weeks the price moved more than the one week priced move	21.8% of 252 weeks

Realized volatility is worked out from the daily closes the desk holds, not from the option chain.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility Weather

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS's at the money IV runs from 34.8 percent at 18 days to 35.0 percent at 200 days.

Days to expiry	At the money IV
18	34.8%
53	33.0%
81	32.6%
109	34.2%
172	34.2%
200	35.0%

Near and far expiries price about the same volatility, a flat term structure.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Volatility Smile

On 28 Sep 2026, at the 53 day expiry, GIS's IV ten percent below the price sits 1.2 points above at the money IV.

Strike area	Implied volatility	Against at the money
10% below the price	34.2%	+1.2 points
At the money	33.0%	0.0 points
10% above the price	35.8%	+2.8 points

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Volatility Surface

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS's surface spans 6 expiries out to 200 days, with IV from 32.4 to 37.4 percent near the price.

Figure	Value
Expiries captured	6
Nearest expiry	16 Oct 2026, 18 days
Farthest expiry	16 Apr 2027, 200 days
Points within 10% of the price, 7 days out or more	12
Lowest IV among them	32.4%
Highest IV among them	37.4%

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Expiry Ladder

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS has 6 captured expiries, from 16 Oct 2026 to 16 Apr 2027.

Expiry	Days	At the money IV	Call open interest	Put open interest
16 Oct 2026	18	34.8%	25,876	20,562
20 Nov 2026	53	33.0%	2,475	12,492
18 Dec 2026	81	32.6%	22,583	13,629
15 Jan 2027	109	34.2%	19,594	26,532
19 Mar 2027	172	34.2%	6,270	6,950
16 Apr 2027	200	35.0%	2,457	3,533

Open interest is summed over the strikes captured near the price on each expiry.

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Strike Table

On 28 Sep 2026, GIS's largest open interest sits at the 35 strike, with 36,373 contracts across the captured expiries.

Strike	Call open interest	Put open interest	Total
35	6,303	30,070	36,373
37.5	19,128	9,801	28,929
40	22,238	5,231	27,469
32.5	1,180	12,953	14,133
47.5	10,975	2,479	13,454
42.5	6,915	5,062	11,977

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Since Yesterday

From 25 Sep 2026 to 28 Sep 2026, GIS's at the money IV moved from 31.5 percent to 34.8 percent.

Figure	25 Sep	28 Sep	Change
At the money IV	31.5%	34.8%	+3.3 points
Open interest, strikes captured near the price	164,444	162,953	-1,491
Put/call ratio, open interest	1.09	1.06	-0.04

Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Changed Hands

On 28 Sep 2026, 12,588 GIS option contracts traded, 1.0 times its own recent average.

Figure	Value
Calls traded	9,485
Puts traded	3,103
Against its recent average	1.0 times
Busier than	12 of its last 20 trading days
Open interest, whole chain	194,282 contracts
Volume to open interest	0.06
Unusual volume flag	Yes, 1 contract traded well above open interest
Largest flagged contract	The 32.5 put expiring 16 Apr, 376 traded against 145 open

Traded volume and open interest are shown side by side and never combined. Open interest changes cannot identify buyers or sellers.

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Positioning Replay

The replay holds 33 trading days of GIS's option positioning, from 11 Aug 2026 to 28 Sep 2026.

Date	Close	Net dollar gamma	Top call strike	Top put strike
11 Aug 2026	37.93	$3.74 million	40	35
21 Sep 2026	35.41	minus $2.29 million	37.5	35
28 Sep 2026	33.60	minus $2.31 million	37.5	35

Each frame restates one nightly capture. Net is calls minus puts, a convention, not who holds the contracts.

From the option chain at the close on 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Read-out

On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of GIS was bearish, paper trading.

Figure	Value
Side	Bearish at 45 trading days, no signal
Level above the close	35.61, the swing high of 11 Sep 2026, a close past it runs against the view
Level below the close	33.21, the swing low of 28 Sep 2026
The chart	Sits with the view
Strategy family	Bear call spread (sell a call spread above the price)
Price target	None. The desk has no price model.

The levels are prices the shares turned at on the chart, with the date of each.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Rank by Timeframe

On 25 Sep 2026 GIS sat at the 17th percentile of the model's 45 trading day ranking, paper trading.

Timeframe	Percentile	Side
10 trading days	43 of 100	Neutral
20 trading days	40 of 100	Neutral
45 trading days	17 of 100	Bearish

100 is the top of the ranking. A name in the middle three fifths is neutral.

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Timeframe Agreement

On 25 Sep 2026, 1 of 3 timeframes put GIS on the bearish side, paper trading.

Group	Timeframes	Side	On that side
Near	10 day, 20 day	Neutral	0 of 2
Long	45 day	Bearish	1 of 1

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Signal History

On 25 Sep 2026 GIS had carried no signal for 6 trading days, paper trading.

Trading day	Signal	45 day percentile
25 Sep 2026	None	17 of 100
24 Sep 2026	None	33 of 100
23 Sep 2026	None	46 of 100
22 Sep 2026	None	44 of 100
21 Sep 2026	None	24 of 100
18 Sep 2026	None	11 of 100
17 Sep 2026	Bearish	5 of 100
16 Sep 2026	None	20 of 100

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Sector Split

On 25 Sep 2026, 9 of 50 Consumer Staples names were bullish and 22 were bearish, paper trading.

Sector	Names	Bullish	Bearish	Neutral
Consumer Staples	50	9	22	19

Paper trading. The model's figures from 25 Sep 2026, one trading day behind, as the Free plan shows them.

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Price Chart

GIS closed at 33.60 on 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Last close	33.60
Change over 5 trading days	-5.1%
Change over 21 trading days	-16.9%
Change over 63 trading days	-7.6%
Change over 252 trading days	-32.0%
52 week high	51.26
52 week low	31.75
20 day moving average	36.93
50 day moving average	37.54
200 day moving average	39.08
RSI, 14 days	29

Worked out from the desk's own daily bars, adjusted for share splits.

From the daily bars through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Earnings Radar

GIS reports next on 23 Dec 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

Figure	Value
Next report	23 Dec 2026
Date	Worked out from past quarters

Earnings calendar as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Company Events

GIS filed 1 current report in the 14 days to 28 Sep 2026, the latest on 23 Sep 2026.

Filed	Report	What it covers
23 Sep 2026	Current report	Results of Operations and Financial Condition

Filings as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Short Volume

On 25 Sep 2026, 73.3 percent of GIS's reported volume at the covered venues was marked short.

Figure	Value
Short sale share, 25 Sep	73.3%
Five day average	66.1%
52 week median	61.8%

Short sale volume counts trades marked short at the covered venues, mostly off exchange. It is not the same as short interest.

Short volume as of 25 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Seasonality

In the 23 Septembers on record, GIS's average change was minus 0.1 percent, and it rose in 56.5 percent of them.

Month	Average change	Middle change	Share of years up	Years
September	-0.1%	+1.3%	56.5%	23
October	-0.3%	+0.3%	60.9%	23
November	+0.6%	+0.4%	56.5%	23

Each figure is a month end to month end change in past years. A past month says nothing certain about the next one.

Monthly history through 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Headlines

The desk's news feeds carried 4 headlines naming GIS in the 3 days to 28 Sep 2026.

Figure	Value
Headlines in the window	4
Latest	28 Sep 2026

The titles are in the Headlines window, with the time each was published.

Headlines as of 28 Sep 2026. Current on every plan.

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Questions

What is GIS's IV rank?: GIS's IV rank is 99 of 100 on 28 Sep 2026.
What move are GIS options pricing?: On 28 Sep 2026, GIS options priced a move of 8.2 percent down and 7.1 percent up by 16 Oct 2026.
Where are GIS's call wall and put wall?: On 28 Sep 2026, GIS's call wall is the 37.5 strike and its put wall is the 35 strike.
What was the desk's latest view of GIS on the Free plan?: On 25 Sep 2026 the desk's view of GIS was bearish, paper trading.
When does GIS report earnings next?: GIS reports next on 23 Dec 2026, a date worked out from past quarters.

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