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General ElectricGEWAITJul 10, 2015Stock 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.
They want to divest assets and focus on the industrial energy side. Have done a great job of doing that in a pretty short period of time. The question is, how are they going to reinvest those dollars and how will that transition go. We are in the early stages of the transition and it is too early to say how well it is going. Also, they have made the largest acquisition that they have ever made in history. Spent $17 billion acquiring Alstom, the French engineering firm and there is some integration risks. He likes the name. It is high-quality, well-established and pays a great dividend, but at a time when they are going through such a profound transition, he would wait to get some evidence that progress is taking place. Trading at 18X earnings.