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, September 7th. Shareholders of record on Monday, September 17th will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share on Thursday, October 25th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.94%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, September 14th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, July, 20th. The conglomerate reported $0.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate had revenue of $30.10 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $29.39 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.40% and a negative net margin of 6.59%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $0.21 earnings per share. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, October, 19th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

General Electric issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Friday, July, 20th. The company provided EPS guidance of $1.00-1.07 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $0.94.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $10.00 to $22.50. On average, they anticipate General Electric's share price to reach $15.9813 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 31.3% 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 3 sell ratings, 14 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

General Electric saw a drop in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 98,997,767 shares, a drop of 18.5% from the August 15th total of 121,477,786 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 46,784,896 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include FMR LLC (2.37%), Northern Trust Corp (1.19%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.93%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.93%), Morgan Stanley (0.63%) and Legal & General Group Plc (0.45%). 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 OppenheimerFunds Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Levin Capital Strategies L.P., United Services Automobile Association, Calamos Advisors LLC, Russell Investments Group Ltd., OMERS ADMINISTRATION Corp and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 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, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, ANTIPODES PARTNERS Ltd, WELLCOME TRUST LTD THE as trustee of the WELLCOME TRUST, Natixis, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board and Royal London Asset Management Ltd.. 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 $12.17.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $108.18 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]