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 declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, December 7th. Shareholders 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 0.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, December 19th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) announced its earnings results on Thursday, January, 31st. The conglomerate reported $0.17 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.18 by $0.01. The conglomerate earned $33.28 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $32.01 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 9.84% and a negative net margin of 18.38%. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, April 19th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month price targets for General Electric's stock. Their forecasts range from $7.00 to $21.00. On average, they anticipate General Electric's share price to reach $12.9163 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 28.0% 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 2 sell ratings, 10 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

Media stories about GE stock have trended positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a news sentiment score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the conglomerate a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days.

General Electric saw a decline in short interest in January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 117,192,509 shares, a decline of 22.5% from the January 15th total of 151,273,237 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 118,836,286 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.0 days. Currently, 1.4% 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 many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (6.15%), Harris Associates L P (1.40%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.18%), Northern Trust Corp (1.17%), Pzena Investment Management LLC (0.73%) and Legal & General Group Plc (0.51%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, Electric Co General, Elizabeth J Comstock, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James E Rohr, James S Tisch, Jeffrey R Immelt, 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 American International Group Inc., Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado, Alps Advisors Inc., PNC Financial Services Group Inc., BlackRock Inc., Eaton Vance Management, Van ECK Associates Corp and Gateway Investment Advisers LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for General Electric.

GE stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Harris Associates L P, Pzena Investment Management LLC, Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, Two Sigma Advisers LP, Geode Capital Management LLC, Kopernik Global Investors LLC, Owl Creek Asset Management L.P. and Kiltearn Partners LLP. 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, 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 $10.09.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $87.61 billion and generates $121.62 billion in revenue each year. The conglomerate earns $-22,354,000,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $0.65 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]