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A valuation is an assessment of the value of one share in a company, it is not necessarily the same as the price listed in the sharemarket. You can use a variety of methods to value a company, Valuecruncher uses Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis to help people create the valuations you see below.
| Valuation | Compared to price | Member |
Created
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Views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $102.74 |
58.79%
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Valuecruncher | 23 Nov 2008 | 0 |
| $95.34 |
45.94%
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dweis | 19 Nov 2008 | 3 |
| $64.06 |
-2.23%
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TheCrunchBlog | 19 Nov 2008 | 30 |
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| Updated: | 6 hours ago |
| Ticker: | GIS |
| Market: | NYSE |












This valuation is part of this blog post:
http://blog.valuecruncher.com/2008/11/running-the-numbers-general-mills-gis/
Assumptions
Revenue: Reuters aggregates 11 analysts covering $GIS and these analysts have mean estimates of 2009 and 2010 revenues of US$14.5 billion and US$15.1 billion respectively. For our analysis we have used US$14.5 billion in 2009, US$15.0 billion in 2010 and US$15.5 billion in 2011.
Profitability: We have used an EBITDA margin of 19.0% in 2009 rising to 20.5% in 2011. Reuters has $GIS‘s EBITD margin at 18.8% last year and averaging 21.1% over the last five-years.
Capital Expenditure: We have assumed capital expenditures of US$550 million per annum moving forward.
Discount Rate: 9.0%.
Terminal Growth Rate: 3.0%.