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 declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 15th. Stockholders 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 dividend yield of 0.39%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 8th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 31st. The conglomerate reported $0.17 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate earned $33.28 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $32.01 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 18.38% and a positive return on equity of 9.84%. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

21 brokers have issued 1-year price targets for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $7.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's share price to reach $12.9163 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 27.5% 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.

Headlines about GE stock have trended somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news impact score of 0.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, 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 saw a drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 117,192,509 shares, a drop of 22.5% from the January 15th total of 151,273,237 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 118,836,286 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.0 days. Currently, 1.4% 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 variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.15%), Harris Associates L P (1.40%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.18%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.15%) and Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.73%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, Electric Co General, Elizabeth J Comstock, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James E Rohr, James S Tisch, Jeffrey R Immelt, 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 American International Group Inc., Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Alps Advisors Inc., PNC Financial Services Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., APG Asset Management N.V., Eaton Vance Management and Van ECK Associates Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Harris Associates L P, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Geode Capital Management LLC, Kopernik Global Investors LLC and Owl Creek Asset Management L.P.. 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, 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 $10.13.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $87.95 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 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]