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. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a 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) released its earnings results on Friday, July, 20th. The conglomerate reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate had revenue of $30.10 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $29.39 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 11.22% and a negative net margin of 6.16%. The company's revenue was up 3.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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 updated 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 earnings per share estimate of $0.94.

21 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $11.00 to $27.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's share price to reach $17.1176 in the next year. 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 drop in short interest during the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 130,182,969 shares, a drop of 12.9% from the June 15th total of 149,544,898 shares. Based on an average trading 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 short sold. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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Media coverage about GE stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than 20 million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news impact score of 0.15 on Accern's scale. They also gave news stories about the conglomerate an impact score of 47.71 out of 100, indicating that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future.

General Electric's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail 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 bought 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]