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

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

General Electric announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 14th. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.31%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 6th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, January, 29th. The conglomerate reported $0.21 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.03. The conglomerate had revenue of $26.24 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $25.77 billion. General Electric's quarterly revenue was down 1.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $0.17 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

General Electric updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, January, 29th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.50-0.60 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.67.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $16.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $12.23 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 4.7%. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

News articles about GE stock have trended neutral on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. 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 daily sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for General Electric.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 98,250,000 shares, an increase of 13.3% from the January 15th total of 86,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 56,600,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the company are short sold. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (7.29%), State Street Corp (3.97%), Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC (1.26%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.87%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (0.82%) and Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.74%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, Edward P Garden, Electric Co General, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, L Kevin Cox, Leslie Seidman, Paula Rosput Reynolds, Russell Stokes, Scott Strazik, Thomas S Timko and Thomas W Horton. View Institutional Ownership Trends for General Electric.

GE stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Kopernik Global Investors LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Franklin Resources Inc., Lord Abbett & CO. LLC and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. Company insiders that have sold General Electric company stock in the last year include Edward P Garden and Russell Stokes. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management LLC, Sadoff Investment Management LLC, State Street Corp, Senator Investment Group LP, California Public Employees Retirement System and ANTIPODES PARTNERS Ltd. Company insiders that have bought General Electric stock in the last two years include Alexander Dimitrief, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, L Kevin Cox, Leslie Seidman, Paula Rosput Reynolds, Scott Strazik, Thomas S Timko and Thomas W Horton. 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.83.