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 declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, June 8th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 18th will be paid 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 3.71%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 15th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its earnings results on Friday, April, 20th. The conglomerate reported $0.16 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.05. The conglomerate earned $28.66 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $27.26 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 11.22% and a negative net margin of 6.16%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 6.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the company earned $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 updated its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, April, 20th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $1.00-1.07 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.95.

21 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $11.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect General Electric's share price to reach $17.6765 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of May. As of May 31st, there was short interest totalling 146,492,546 shares, an increase of 5.5% from the May 15th total of 138,843,622 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 69,957,486 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.7% of the shares of the company are short sold.

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Press coverage about GE stock has been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern. The research group scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of 0.13 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the conglomerate an impact score of 45.47 out of 100, meaning that recent media 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 variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Franklin Resources Inc. (2.36%), Northern Trust Corp (1.20%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (1.04%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.86%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.47%) and Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.40%). 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 OppenheimerFunds Inc., Thornburg Investment Management Inc., Northern Trust Corp, Swiss National Bank, PNC Financial Services Group Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Legal & General Group Plc and American Century Companies Inc.. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Franklin Resources Inc., Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Levin Capital Strategies L.P., Kiltearn Partners LLP, Russell Investments Group Ltd. and Pzena Investment Management LLC. 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 $12.95.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $115.48 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]