NYSE:GE - General Electric Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

General Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, June 8th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 18th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Wednesday, July 25th. This represents a $0.48 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 15th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, April, 20th. The conglomerate reported $0.16 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.05. The conglomerate had revenue of $28.66 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $27.26 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 6.16% and a positive return on equity of 11.22%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.14 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, July, 20th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

General Electric issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, April, 20th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.00-1.07 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.95.

21 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $11.00 to $27.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's stock price to reach $17.1471 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 23.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 13 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."

General Electric saw a decline in short interest during the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 130,182,969 shares, a decline of 12.9% from the June 15th total of 149,544,898 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 94,990,073 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.4 days. Currently, 1.5% of the company's stock are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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News stories about GE stock have trended positive this week, Accern reports. The research group rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 0.43 on Accern's scale. They also gave headlines about the conglomerate an impact score of 47.48 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days.

General Electric's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.27%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.08%), NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.08%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Hexavest Inc. (0.05%) and Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.03%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, David Leon Joyce, Electric Co General, Elizabeth J Comstock, Francisco Dsouza, 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 Bank of Montreal Can, NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL, Welch & Forbes LLC, Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, Stonebridge Capital Management Inc., BKD Wealth Advisors LLC and Capital One National Association. Company insiders that have sold General Electric company stock in the last year include Electric Co General and Elizabeth J Comstock. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, Park National Corp OH, Farmers Trust Co., TNB Financial, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, IFM Investors Pty Ltd, DnB Asset Management AS and Thompson Investment Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought General Electric stock in the last two years include Alexander Dimitrief, Francisco Dsouza, 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 $13.89.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $120.60 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.

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]