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 data on Tuesday, October, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.06. The conglomerate earned $29.57 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $30.08 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 27.36% and a positive return on equity of 10.29%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the company earned $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 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's share 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.

News headlines about GE stock have been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near future.

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 volume of 141,364,365 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.1 days. Approximately 1.8% of the company's shares are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Factory Mutual Insurance Co., Grassi Investment Management, DNB Asset Management AS, Chickasaw Capital Management LLC, YHB Investment Advisors Inc., QUANTRES ASSET MANAGEMENT Ltd, Nexus Investment Management Inc. and State of Alaska Department of Revenue. 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]