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. Stockholders of record on Monday, March 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Thursday, April 25th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.42%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 8th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.09 by $0.05. The conglomerate earned $27.29 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $27.31 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.32% and a negative net margin of 14.65%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 1.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.16 EPS. 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 EPS guidance of $0.50-0.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.58.

19 analysts have issued 12 month price targets for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's stock price to reach $12.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 27.0% 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.

News stories about GE stock have trended negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a daily sentiment score of -2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 8.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is very likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

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 currently 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 number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors 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, Edward P Garden, 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. 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 acquired 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 $9.45.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $82.05 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]