NYSE:GE - General Electric Stock Price, Forecast & News

General Electric's stock was trading at $8.21 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, GE shares have decreased by 2.4% and is now trading at $8.0150. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings and 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for General Electric.

General Electric is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for General Electric.

General Electric will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, January, 29th. The conglomerate reported $0.21 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The conglomerate earned $26.24 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $25.77 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 14.12% and a negative net margin of 4.71%. The business's revenue was down 1.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.17 earnings per share. View General Electric's earnings history.

General Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 14th. Shareholders of record on Monday, March 9th will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Monday, April 27th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.50%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 6th. View General Electric's dividend history.

General Electric issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, March, 4th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.50-0.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.59.

12 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $8.00 to $16.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $11.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 46.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for General Electric.

Press coverage about GE stock has trended very positive on Tuesday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View the latest news aboutGeneral Electric.

General Electric saw a decrease in short interest in February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 82,680,000 shares, a decrease of 6.9% from the February 13th total of 88,830,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 65,840,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 1.3 days. Currently, 1.0% of the company's stock are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to General Electric include Siemens (SIEGY), Koninklijke Philips (PHG), Emerson Electric (EMR), Legrand (LGRVF), Peloton (PTON) and Sharp (SHCAY).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other General Electric investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), Alibaba Group (BABA), Micron Technology (MU), Canopy Growth (CGC), AT&T (T), Bank of America (BAC), Verizon Communications (VZ), Ford Motor (F), Intel (INTC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

General Electric trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GE."

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One share of GE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.02.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $70.06 billion and generates $95.21 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $-4,978,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.65 on an earnings per share basis. General Electric employs 205,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about General Electric.

The official website for General Electric is http://www.ge.com/.

General Electric's mailing address is 5 Necco Street, BOSTON MA, 02210. The conglomerate can be reached via phone at 617-443-3000 or via email at [email protected]