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, September 7th. Stockholders of record on Monday, September 17th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Thursday, October 25th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.01%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, September 14th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) released its earnings results on Tuesday, October, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share 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 the consensus estimate of $30.08 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 27.36% and a positive return on equity of 10.29%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 3.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.29 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

23 brokers have issued 12 month target prices for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's share price to reach $14.1706 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 77.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 12 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

Press coverage about GE stock has trended somewhat positive on Tuesday, InfoTrie reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the conglomerate a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 122,865,074 shares, an increase of 1.0% from the October 15th total of 124,163,569 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 118,855,932 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.0 days. Approximately 1.4% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.18%), FMR LLC (2.15%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.38%), Swiss National Bank (0.32%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.32%) and American International Group Inc. (0.29%). 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 FMR LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Hexavest Inc., Becker Capital Management Inc., American International Group Inc., FIL Ltd and PNC Financial Services Group Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Pzena Investment Management LLC, Prudential Financial Inc., Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Bank of Montreal Can, Levin Capital Strategies L.P., WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST, Perpetual Ltd and Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research 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, 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 $7.99.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $74.50 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]