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, February 15th. Investors of record on Monday, March 11th will be paid a dividend of $0.01 per share on Thursday, April 25th. This represents a $0.04 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.40%. 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 results on Thursday, January, 31st. The conglomerate reported $0.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate 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 positive return on equity of 9.85% and a negative net margin of 18.38%. 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 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's share price to reach $12.2941 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 23.2% 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, 9 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 trended neutral this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of 0.5 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.

General Electric saw a decrease in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totalling 112,261,481 shares, a decrease of 10.9% from the February 15th total of 125,958,402 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 100,801,252 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.1 days. Currently, 1.3% 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 a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.15%), FMR LLC (3.47%), Harris Associates L P (1.40%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.18%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%) and Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.15%). 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, 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 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. Company insiders that have sold General Electric company stock in the last year include Electric Co General and Russell Stokes. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Norges Bank, Harris Associates L P, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Two Sigma Advisers LP and Geode Capital Management 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, 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 $9.98.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $86.65 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]