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, December 7th. Investors 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 0.59%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 30th. The conglomerate reported $0.14 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.20 by $0.06. The conglomerate earned $29.57 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $30.08 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.29% and a negative net margin of 27.36%. The firm's revenue was down 3.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $0.29 EPS. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

22 analysts have issued 12-month target prices 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 $13.2813 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 96.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

22 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

Press coverage about GE stock has trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 1.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the conglomerate a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 135,067,168 shares, an increase of 3.2% from the November 15th total of 130,929,274 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 129,973,792 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.0 days. Currently, 1.6% of the company's shares are short sold. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.32%), BlackRock Inc. (6.18%), FMR LLC (2.15%), Franklin Resources Inc. (1.46%), The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (1.18%) and Capital Research Global Investors (0.50%). 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 Capital Research Global Investors, Franklin Resources Inc., FMR LLC, Morgan Stanley, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Capital World Investors, Fisher Asset Management LLC and BlackRock Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, Pzena Investment Management LLC, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , Capital International Investors, Prudential Financial Inc., ANTIPODES PARTNERS Ltd, Vanguard Group Inc. and Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado. 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 $6.76.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $60.86 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]