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 21st. Stockholders of record on Monday, July 1st will be given a dividend of $0.01 per share on Thursday, July 25th. This represents a $0.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.46%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, June 28th. View General Electric's Dividend History.

General Electric (NYSE:GE) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 31st. The conglomerate reported $0.17 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.12 by $0.05. The conglomerate earned $28.83 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $28.83 billion. General Electric had a positive return on equity of 10.64% and a negative net margin of 15.38%. General Electric's quarterly revenue was down 1.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.19 EPS. View General Electric's Earnings History.

General Electric is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, October 29th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for General Electric.

General Electric will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 30th at 8:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

General Electric issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, July, 31st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.55-0.65 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.59.

19 brokerages have issued 12-month target prices for General Electric's shares. Their forecasts range from $5.00 to $21.00. On average, they expect General Electric's stock price to reach $11.6563 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 32.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for General Electric.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for General Electric in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 9 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for General Electric.

News stories about GE stock have trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. General Electric earned a coverage optimism score of -2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories about the conglomerate a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for General Electric.

General Electric saw a increase in short interest in the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totalling 103,449,700 shares, an increase of 10.2% from the June 30th total of 93,878,700 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 51,760,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.0 days. Currently, 1.2% of the company's stock are sold short. 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. (7.43%), BlackRock Inc. (5.88%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (4.19%), Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss LLC (1.29%), Northern Trust Corp (1.18%) and Trian Fund Management L.P. (0.74%). Company insiders that own General Electric stock include Alexander Dimitrief, Edward P Garden, Electric Co General, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James S Tisch, John Leonard Flannery, L Kevin Cox, Paula Rosput Reynolds, Russell Stokes, Scott Strazik, Steven M Mollenkopf 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 Steadfast Capital Management LP, Kiltearn Partners LLP, Trian Fund Management L.P., Pictet Asset Management Ltd., Pictet Asset Management Ltd., California Public Employees Retirement System, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. and Mackenzie Financial Corp. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC, BlackRock Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Prudential Financial Inc., Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec and Natixis. Company insiders that have bought General Electric stock in the last two years include Alexander Dimitrief, Francisco Dsouza, H Lawrence Culp Jr, James S Tisch, John Leonard Flannery, L Kevin Cox, Paula Rosput Reynolds, Scott Strazik, Steven M Mollenkopf 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of GE stock can currently be purchased for approximately $8.79.

General Electric has a market capitalization of $76.71 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 283,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About General Electric.

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]