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. Investors of record on Thursday, December 20th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, January 25th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its quarterly 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 had revenue of $29.57 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $30.08 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.29% and a negative net margin of 27.36%. The business's revenue was down 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.29 earnings per share. 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year target prices for General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $13.2188 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 51.4% 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.

Press coverage about GE stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 1.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of 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 trading volume, of 141,364,365 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.8% of the shares of the company 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 retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Gulf International Bank UK Ltd (0.02%), DNB Asset Management AS (0.02%), Park National Corp OH (0.02%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.01%). 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Factory Mutual Insurance Co., Grassi Investment Management, DNB Asset Management AS, Wall Capital Group Inc., Chickasaw Capital Management LLC, YHB Investment Advisors Inc., QUANTRES ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd and Nexus 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, 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 $8.73.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $77.62 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]