NYSE:GE - General Electric Stock Price, News, & Analysis

General Electric trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GE."

General Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 7th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 20th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, January 25th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 31st. The conglomerate reported $0.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate earned $33.28 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $32.01 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 18.38% and a positive return on equity of 9.84%. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year price targets for General Electric's shares. Their predictions range from $7.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $12.9163 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 27.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

News coverage about GE stock has trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news impact score of 1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

General Electric saw a decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 117,192,509 shares, a decrease of 22.5% from the January 15th total of 151,273,237 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 118,836,286 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.0 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the company are short sold. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.15%), Harris Associates L P (1.40%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.18%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.73%) and Legal & General Group Plc (0.51%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, Electric Co General, Elizabeth J Comstock, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James E Rohr, James S Tisch, Jeffrey R Immelt, John Leonard Flannery, Marijn E Dekkers, Steven M Mollenkopf and William G Beattie. View Institutional Ownership Trends for General Electric.

GE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including American International Group Inc., Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Alps Advisors Inc., PNC Financial Services Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., Eaton Vance Management, Van ECK Associates Corp and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Harris Associates L P, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Geode Capital Management LLC, Kopernik Global Investors LLC, Owl Creek Asset Management L.P. and Kiltearn Partners LLP. Company insiders that have bought General Electric stock in the last two years include Alexander Dimitrief, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James E Rohr, James S Tisch, Jeffrey R Immelt, John Leonard Flannery, Marijn E Dekkers, Steven M Mollenkopf and William G Beattie. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

Shares of GE can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $10.12.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $87.87 billion and generates $121.62 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $-22,354,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.65 on an earnings per share basis. General Electric employs 313,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for General Electric is http://www.ge.com.

General Electric's mailing address is 41 FARNSWORTH STREET, BOSTON MA, 02210. The conglomerate can be reached via phone at 617-443-3000 or via email at [email protected]