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. Shareholders 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 yield of 0.44%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 8th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 31st. The conglomerate reported $0.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate earned $33.28 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $32.01 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 18.38% and a positive return on equity of 9.85%. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

20 analysts have issued 1-year price targets for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $12.2353 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 34.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

Media headlines about GE stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a media sentiment score of 1.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 29th, there was short interest totalling 136,016,208 shares, an increase of 16.6% from the March 15th total of 116,621,628 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 57,300,024 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.4 days. Approximately 1.6% of the company's shares 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Strs Ohio (0.10%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (0.06%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.06%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.06%), Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.05%) and Cynosure Management LLC (0.04%). 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, Russell Stokes, 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, Cynosure Management LLC, Strs Ohio, Newman Dignan & Sheerar Inc., Virtu Financial LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Huntington National Bank and First Manhattan Co.. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Ardevora Asset Management LLP, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Country Trust Bank, Pacer Advisors Inc., Clarkston Capital Partners LLC, CAPROCK Group Inc., W.E. Donoghue & Co. LLC and Mercer Global Advisors Inc. ADV. 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, 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 $9.0750.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $78.79 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 283,000 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]