GE (GE) Stock

About GE

GE is led by CEO H. Lawrence Culp Jr., employs 53,000 people, headquartered in Evendale, US, publicly traded since 1962.

GE stock trades at $331.09 with a market capitalization of $343.53B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 41.60, price-to-book of 20.88, price-to-sales of 7.26. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $268.01 and $388.84, and currently trades 14.9% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.53%.

On profitability, GE generates a return on equity (ROE) of 49.03% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 12.08%, an operating margin of 18.51%, a net profit margin of 17.70%.

In its most recent fiscal year, GE reported annual revenue of $45.9B, net profit of $8.7B, revenue has compounded at -9.6% a year over the last five years, profit at 8.8% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.09, a current ratio of 1.04, total assets of $130.2B, $12.4B in cash and equivalents.

GE has an average daily trading volume of 4,749,490 shares, a beta of 1.37 (more volatile than the overall market).