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, June 8th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 18th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Wednesday, July 25th. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.80%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 15th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its earnings results on Friday, July, 20th. The conglomerate reported $0.19 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 analysts' expectations of $29.39 billion. General Electric had a negative net margin of 6.59% and a positive return on equity of 10.40%. The business's revenue was up 3.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.21 EPS. 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 updated 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 EPS estimate of $0.94.

21 brokers have issued 1 year target prices for General Electric's stock. Their predictions range from $11.00 to $27.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $16.8647 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 33.5% 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 increase in short interest in July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 112,133,570 shares, an increase of 1.6% from the July 13th total of 110,377,426 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 66,232,415 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Approximately 1.3% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View General Electric's Current Options Chain.

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Press coverage about GE stock has trended somewhat positive recently, Accern reports. The research group identifies positive and negative media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million news and blog sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. General Electric earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.16 on Accern's scale. They also gave media coverage about the conglomerate an impact score of 45.18 out of 100, meaning that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for General Electric.

General Electric's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (2.37%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.93%), Morgan Stanley (0.63%), Legal & General Group Plc (0.45%), Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. (0.42%) and Swiss National Bank (0.33%). 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 acquired 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 Letko Brosseau & Associates Inc.. 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 $12.63.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $106.80 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.

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]