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. Stockholders of record on Thursday, December 20th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, January 25th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.45%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' 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 negative net margin of 27.36% and a positive return on equity of 10.29%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 3.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.29 EPS. 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 brokers have issued twelve-month price targets for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's share price to reach $13.2188 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 47.2% 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.

News headlines about GE stock have been trending positive recently, according to InfoTrie. The research group rates the sentiment of press 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 media sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 5.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

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 short-interest ratio is currently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.8% 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 many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.03%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.02%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.02%) and Park National Corp OH (0.02%). 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, Adams Asset Advisors LLC, Horan Capital Management, Pennsylvania Trust Co, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL and Woodstock Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Factory Mutual Insurance Co., Personal Capital Advisors Corp, Grassi Investment Management, DNB Asset Management AS, Wall Capital Group Inc., Virtu Financial LLC, Chickasaw Capital Management LLC and YHB Investment Advisors 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 $8.98.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $77.27 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]