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, February 15th. Investors of record on Monday, March 11th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Thursday, April 25th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.42%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 8th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.09 by $0.05. The conglomerate had revenue of $27.29 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $27.31 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 14.65% and a positive return on equity of 10.32%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 1.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $0.16 earnings per share. 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 updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Tuesday, April, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $0.50-0.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.58.

19 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for General Electric's shares. Their predictions range from $5.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's share price to reach $12.00 in the next twelve months. 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.

Media stories about GE stock have trended somewhat negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. 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 media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

General Electric saw a drop in short interest in 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 trading volume, of 67,608,503 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.7 days. Currently, 1.3% 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 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]