What Our Analysts Know About General Electric Company

By Chris Stiles • Wednesday, November 15 10:21 • Permanent Link

General Electric Company logged a -0.6% change during today's morning session, and is now trading at a price of $116.51 per share. The S&P 500 index moved 0.0%. GE's trading volume is 696,820 compared to the stock's average volume of 4,616,325.

General Electric Company trades -8.76% away from its average analyst target price of $127.7 per share. The 16 analysts following the stock have set target prices ranging from $84.2 to $150.0, and on average have given General Electric Company a rating of buy.

If you are considering an investment in GE, you'll want to know the following:

General Electric Company's current price is 55.4% above its Graham number of $74.99, which implies that at its current valuation it does not offer a margin of safety
General Electric Company has moved 76.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
Based on its trailing earnings per share of 9.61, General Electric Company has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 12.1 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
GE has a forward P/E ratio of 25.2 based on its forward 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $4.62 per share
The company has a price to earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 1.38 — a number near or below 1 signifying that General Electric Company is fairly valued compared to its estimated growth potential
Its Price to Book (P/B) ratio is 4.42 compared to its sector average of 6.23
General Electric Company operates as a high-tech industrial company in Europe, China, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and Africa.
Based in Boston, the company has 172,000 full time employees and a market cap of $126.81 Billion. General Electric Company currently returns an annual dividend yield of 0.3%.

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