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General ElectricGECOMMENTJun 17, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
The market lets you change horses halfway through the race, and more people should take advantage of that. A better company today than a year ago. CEO has been excellent. It has aerospace, power, and renewables. A lot of future growth is already built in to the price. He'd sell.
The spin-off of their financial division is the smartest thing they could be doing. There is a great lifecycle in conglomerates. They start off and pull together all kinds of companies, and they grow and grow. Get to their “level of incompetence” where, on the next acquisition, they will have to buy the other half of the world, and then things stop. It doesn’t have anything in the way of upside potential, but what it does have are all these wonderful companies inside it. So the 2nd part of a good conglomerate is where they start to spin off the parts. It turns out that the sum of the parts is worth an awful lot more than the whole.