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

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

General Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 14th. Investors of record on Monday, March 9th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Monday, April 27th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.33%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 6th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 29th. The conglomerate reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The conglomerate had revenue of $26.24 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $25.77 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 14.13% and a negative net margin of 4.71%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 1.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.17 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

General Electric issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.50-0.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.67.

13 brokerages have issued 12-month price targets for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $16.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's share price to reach $12.23 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

News headlines about GE stock have been trending very negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of -3.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for General Electric.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 98,250,000 shares, an increase of 13.3% from the January 15th total of 86,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 56,600,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.1% of the company's stock are short sold. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to General Electric include Siemens (SIEGY), Emerson Electric (EMR), Koninklijke Philips (PHG), Legrand (LGRVF), Peloton (PTON) and Sharp (SHCAY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other General Electric investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), Canopy Growth (CGC), AT&T (T), Bank of America (BAC), Verizon Communications (VZ), Ford Motor (F), Intel (INTC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

General Electric's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (7.29%), State Street Corp (3.97%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.38%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (1.26%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.87%) and Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.82%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, Edward P Garden, Electric Co General, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, L Kevin Cox, Leslie Seidman, Paula Rosput Reynolds, Russell Stokes, Scott Strazik, Thomas S Timko and Thomas W Horton. View Institutional Ownership Trends for General Electric.

GE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Capital International Investors, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Kopernik Global Investors LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Franklin Resources Inc. and Lord Abbett & CO. LLC. Company insiders that have sold General Electric company stock in the last year include Edward P Garden and Russell Stokes. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Sadoff Investment Management LLC, State Street Corp, Senator Investment Group LP, Geode Capital Management LLC and California Public Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have bought General Electric stock in the last two years include Alexander Dimitrief, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, L Kevin Cox, Leslie Seidman, Paula Rosput Reynolds, Scott Strazik, Thomas S Timko and Thomas W Horton. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.25.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $106.99 billion and generates $95.21 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $-4,978,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.65 on an earnings per share basis. General Electric employs 283,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About General Electric.

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]