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. Shareholders 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 3.66%. 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, July, 20th. The conglomerate reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate earned $30.10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $29.39 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 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.21 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October, 19th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

General Electric issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, July, 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 $0.94.

21 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $11.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect General Electric's share price to reach $17.1176 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 30.5% 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 in 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 daily volume of 94,990,073 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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News stories about GE stock have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. General Electric earned a daily sentiment score of 0.10 on Accern's scale. They also gave news headlines about the conglomerate an impact score of 45.48 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

General Electric's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.27%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.08%), NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V. (0.08%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.06%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%) and Hexavest Inc. (0.05%). 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 Calamos Advisors LLC, Bank of Montreal Can, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Hartford Investment Management Co., NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Gofen & Glossberg LLC IL and Whittier Trust Co. of Nevada 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Nippon Life Global Investors Americas Inc., Park National Corp OH, Farmers Trust Co., TNB Financial, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and IFM Investors Pty Ltd. 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 $13.12.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $113.92 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]