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 declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 15th. Investors of record on Monday, March 11th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Thursday, April 25th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 8th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.09 by $0.05. The conglomerate earned $27.29 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $27.31 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.32% and a negative net margin of 14.65%. General Electric's revenue for the quarter was down 1.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.16 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

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

General Electric issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, April, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.50-0.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.58.

19 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $12.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 20.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

Media headlines about GE stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group rates the sentiment of 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 sentiment score of -1.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days.

General Electric saw a drop in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 113,341,523 shares, a drop of 10.5% from the April 15th total of 126,651,407 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 67,608,503 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.7 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (5.80%), FMR LLC (5.19%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.25%), Northern Trust Corp (1.18%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (1.03%) and Trian Fund Management L.P. (0.82%). 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, John Leonard Flannery, Russell Stokes and Steven M Mollenkopf. View Institutional Ownership Trends for General Electric.

GE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including BlackRock Inc., OppenheimerFunds Inc., Natixis, Morgan Stanley, California Public Employees Retirement System, Calamos Advisors LLC, ANTIPODES PARTNERS Ltd and Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, FIL Ltd, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, Geode Capital Management LLC, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Ardevora Asset Management LLP and Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc.. 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, John Leonard Flannery and Steven M Mollenkopf. 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 $9.96.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $86.48 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 283,000 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]