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General Mills Inc.
Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods
Made on Sep 5, 2026
Price at call $38.29
6-month call Bull +9.7%
Target by Mar 2027 $42.00
Great value below $32.00
Model v0.6.0

Projection vs Actual (6M history + forecast)

The masterbrain's trajectory (blue, curved through its 7 checkpoints), the deterministic v0.3 control (dashed), and the actual price (green) overlaid from the prediction date forward.
Forecast Change +9.7% to $42.00
Predicted High $42.00 at 6 months
Predicted Low $37.20 at 1 month
Max Drawdown (predicted) -2.8%

Forecast

The masterbrain trajectory — 7 dated checkpoints. Short rungs (2w, 1m) show the typical range as the primary claim; point calls run from 2 months out. Every claim still gets graded. Predicted Sep 5, 2026 1:09 pm
Bull GIS trends higher to $42.00 (+9.7% from $38.29) by Mar 2027. dip-then-recover
ThesisGIS is oversold on packaged-food narrative contagion (Campbell's spillover) despite beating EPS 3/3, negative beta, and DCF suggesting deep value. Near-term sentiment drag persists but value gravity and defensive positioning should reassert over 3-6 months toward the mid-40s composite baseline.
Invalidated ifBreak below $35 on volume or a guide-down at next print would invalidate the recovery thesis.
Checkpointtime after the call Datewhen it gets graded Predictedthe claim: closing price Current priceactual close — fills in over time Predicted returnpredicted vs $38.29 at call Conv.brain's confidence, 1–10 Driverwhy the brain put the point here
Prediction made Sep 5, 2026 $38.29 at call The anchor — every point below is measured from this price and date.
2 weeks Sep 19, 2026 $35.58–$41.00 typical range · internal point $37.60 ±7.1% 6/10 Sentiment drag and sector contagion continue near-term
1 month Oct 5, 2026 $34.36–$42.22 typical range · internal point $37.20 ±10.3% 5/10 Packaged-food narrative weight, no catalyst yet
2 months Nov 5, 2026 $38.10 -0.5% 4/10 Basing as defensive bid returns in risk-on tape
3 months Dec 5, 2026 $39.40 +2.9% 5/10 Value buyers step in below fair-value anchor
4 months Jan 5, 2027 $40.50 +5.8% 5/10 Earnings beat streak likely extends, sentiment mean-reverts
5 months Feb 5, 2027 $41.30 +7.9% 4/10 DCF gravity and low beta attract defensive rotation
6 months Mar 5, 2027 $42.00 +9.7% 4/10 Convergence toward composite fair value continues

Why ranges on the short rungs? A 102-prediction trial (2026-07-21) showed 2-week point calls carry no information here — three prompt formulations all lost to simply predicting zero — while the stock's own volatility scale (σ×√t) described those windows well. So the short rungs claim what's actually knowable: the typical travel, with earnings timing flagged where the variance will come from. The internal point calls keep being generated and graded to map where real skill begins. Full evidence: stocks/predictions/V0.5-DESIGN.md §8.

Deterministic control (v0.3 value line) targets $40.41 (+5.5%) — both lines get graded at every checkpoint, so the brain has to beat the formula, not just replace it. Brain: claude-opus-4-7.

Weaknesses

0 blocking · 3 degraded · 2 notes — follow the chain top-down (cause → effect).
  • Degraded
    [critical] High debt risk — interest coverage dangerously low or refinancing needed
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Degraded
    [critical] Sector in contraction — demand weakening across the industry
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Degraded
    [critical] AI analysis identifies strong headwinds — multiple forces working against this stock
    upstream:valuation-synthesis
  • Note
    Value is primarily income-based — dividend sustainability is the key risk
    upstream:classification
  • Note
    Valuation anchor absent: anchored_pe.
    anchor:anchored_pe

Equation Inputs

Everything feeding the v0.6.0 model — value anchors, the stock's own price behaviour, and the tunable knobs.

Value anchors (from deep analysis)

Price at call$38.29
Composite fair value$31.71
Signal-adjusted fair value$28.55
DCF fair value$56.81
Anchored-PE fair value
Buy-below (value lens)$32.00
Value net score-50
Value confidence6 / 10
Quality net score+0
Memo confidence7 / 10
Deserved value (base)
Quality tilt
Deserved value (used)
Coherence (value × quality)

Price behaviour (trailing — shapes the realism line)

Realized volatility (annualized) 1m 32.8%  3m 35.5%  6m 30.9%  
Daily σ (realism noise)2.2%
Beta vs S&P 500 1m 0.27  3m -0.33  5m -0.34  
Trailing 6-month return-13.5%

Knobs (equation params)

ladderArray
llm_modelclaude-opus-4-7
max_tokens3000
control_knobsArray
Neutral band (%)5
earnings_briefv1
prompt_versionp1
control_versionv0.3.0

Version & Tech Chain

What produced this prediction — stamped on the record so versions can be compared by success rate later.
Model v0.6.0 #271041f8fcd5

Tech composition (what this version is built from)

#ProcessKindGroup
1 Synthesis valuation-synthesis deterministic final
2 Scenario Analysis scenario-valuation deterministic valuation
3 Valuation / Mispricing ext-lens-value llm extended
4 Company Quality ext-lens-quality llm extended
5 Forensic Memo (combiner) ext-forensic-memo llm extended
6 Classification company-classification llm foundation
7 Live Quote fmp-quote data market-data

Inputs used (the runs that fed this prediction)

Upstream processRanLagRun id
company-classification Sep 5, 2026 freshest GIS-20260905-040001-9db1
ext-forensic-memo Sep 5, 2026 freshest ext-GIS-20260905-041614-0905
ext-lens-quality Sep 5, 2026 freshest ext-GIS-20260905-041614-0905
ext-lens-sentiment Sep 5, 2026 freshest ext-GIS-20260905-041614-0905
ext-lens-value Sep 5, 2026 freshest ext-GIS-20260905-041614-0905
scenario-valuation Sep 5, 2026 freshest GIS-20260905-040001-9db1
valuation-synthesis Sep 5, 2026 freshest GIS-20260905-040001-9db1

Inputs flagged 7d+ behind the freshest one may be stale relative to the rest of the analysis.

Saved History

1 frozen snapshot — the record we score once predictions mature.
MadeModelCallAt callTargetExp.Eval due
Sep 5, 2026 v0.6.0 Bull $38.29 $42.00 +9.7% Mar 2027 viewing

Not Yet Modeled

What this v0.6.0 forecast deliberately ignores — the work ahead, in plain sight.
  • Scenario probabilities — one path, no bull/bear split (base_prob = 1.0).
  • Intraday / sub-2-week behaviour — the first claim is at 14 days by design (EOD product).
  • Position sizing / portfolio context — the path is a price claim only.