General Electric Company

NYSE: GE
$189.79
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Closing Price on September 24, 2024

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The 30-year Treasury Bond yields only about 2.5% and, amazingly, more than half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks are yielding more than that.
thinkstockApril 13, 2015: Markets opened higher on Monday but both the DJIA and the S&P 500 turned negative about noon as traders apparently decided to wait for the first of the week’s big...
The debate over whether investors prefer stock buybacks or dividends will continue in the years ahead. Companies use both tools for returning capital to their shareholders.
A new earnings season has just kicked off and 24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of some of the larger companies reporting their financial results in the week ahead.
thinkstockApril 10, 2015: Markets opened higher on Friday after GE announced a plan to dump real estate assets held by GE Capital and initiate a share buyback of $50 billion. Equity markets generally...
GE has announced the exit of most GE Capital assets and a structure that will accommodate huge buybacks, higher dividends and a focus on being an industrial conglomerate.
thinkstockApril 9, 2015: Markets opened higher on Thursday and the three major indexes spent most of the day bouncing around the breakeven line. Equity prices turned higher with about an hour left in...
General Electric reportedly is close to selling a large part of its real estate holdings, as the company aims to shrink its finance and capital business.
It now might be easier to argue that Berkshire Hathaway is becoming more like a public private equity shop, rather than being a conglomerate.
The 787-10 is the longest version of Boeing's Dreamliner and can seat more passengers than the 787-8 and the 787-9. Boeing plans to deliver the first 787-10 planes in 2018.
Merrill Lynch downgraded Synchrony Financial on Wednesday but left the price target unchanged.
Chesapeake Energy, Petrobras and Vale all saw the double-digit percentage increases in the numbers of their shares short between the February 13 and February 27 settlement dates.
CEO Jeff Immelt continues to refashion General Electric as an industrial conglomerate with less emphasis on its once-booming financial business.
Whatever else has happened through all its restructurings, share buybacks and dividend increases, GE's stock is down 20% since Jeffrey R. Immelt became chairman.
Among most shorted stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Petrobras and Pfizer saw the largest declines in the percentage of shares short in late February.