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 paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, January 25th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.44%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.06. The conglomerate earned $29.57 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $30.08 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.29% and a negative net margin of 27.36%. The firm's revenue was down 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $0.29 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 31st 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

21 analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for General Electric's shares. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $13.2188 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 45.9% 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.

Media headlines about GE stock have been trending somewhat negative recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news impact score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news headlines 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 stock's share price in the next few days.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 152,096,259 shares, an increase of 8.9% from the December 14th total of 139,713,962 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 141,364,365 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.8% 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 many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST (0.28%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (0.06%), Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.03%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, David Leon Joyce, Electric Co General, Elizabeth J Comstock, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James E Rohr, James S Tisch, Jeffrey R Immelt, Jeffrey S Bornstein, 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 Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, QCI Asset Management Inc. NY, Gulf International Bank UK Ltd, Stewart & Patten Co. LLC, Thomasville National Bank, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Adams Asset Advisors LLC and Horan Capital Management. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., Personal Capital Advisors Corp, Clarkston Capital Partners LLC, Grassi Investment Management, DNB Asset Management AS, Wall Capital Group Inc. and Virtu Financial LLC. 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, Jeffrey S Bornstein, 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 $9.06.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $78.66 billion and generates $122.09 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $-5,786,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.05 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]