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, December 7th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 20th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Friday, January 25th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.44%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) released its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, October, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.06. The conglomerate earned $29.57 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $30.08 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 27.36% and a positive return on equity of 10.29%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 3.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.29 EPS. 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 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's stock price to reach $13.2188 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 45.9% 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 coverage about GE stock has trended somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of 1.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 1.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

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 days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.1 days. Approximately 1.8% of the company's stock are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST (0.28%), Clarkston Capital Partners LLC (0.06%), Factory Mutual Insurance Co. (0.05%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.03%), Personal Capital Advisors Corp (0.03%) and Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.03%). 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, Stewart & Patten Co. LLC, Thomasville National Bank, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Adams Asset Advisors LLC and Horan Capital Management. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., Personal Capital Advisors Corp, Clarkston Capital Partners LLC, Grassi Investment Management, DNB Asset Management AS, Wall Capital Group Inc. and Virtu Financial LLC. 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 $9.06.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $79.36 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]