General Electric (GE) Buy, Sell or Hold

General Electric (GE)

357.02

-0.62 (0.17%)

as of Jun 18, 2026, 11:45:31 pm Market Open.

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SELL

Resistance at $22. If you made profits on the stock he would be tempted to sell it. If it breaks that resistance, then he would be all over it.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Aug 25/11. Up 41.56%.) Had thought it seemed to be in a turnaround mode and there was a good chance that they would increase the dividend, which they did. Has a target price of better than $35.

COMMENT

Has performed fairly well recently, partly because a lot of US industrials have rallied with the hopes of a stronger economic outlook. Also their finance business has been doing better. There are probably cheaper stocks to own.

BUY

Likes their business. Recovered on the consumer side. GE Capital might start paying a dividend soon. It would translate into GE-N dividend increase. Doing well with shale gas in US and globally. They are a global leader in gas turbines. Aerospace division is doing relatively well. A long-term hold.

BUY

Like many other industrials, this tends to move very closely to what the market is doing. Dividend is 3.2%, which is not bad. Trading at 13X forward earnings. Long-term growth is probably in the high single digit low double-digit area.

COMMENT

Although he doesn't own the equity, most of his clients own some form of GE fixed income instruments. Doesn't own it as an equity because as a diversified industrial company of this size, it is more and more difficult to find and access organic growth. Prefers Schneider Electric (?) out of France and 3M Co (MMM-N).

BUY

On the good news side, its financial services division has been allowed to pay a dividend to the parent company. On the negative side, margins on their industrial side are very low and they are having trouble getting some traction. Likes the long-term outlook for this one.

WEAK BUY

Have de-risked their portfolio. Should not pay the pre-2008 multiple. It used to be a much more stable business when they were growing through acquisitions. It will now slowly go up. 3.5% yield will do fine.

TOP PICK

BUY

A world-class company that fell on hard times and cut the dividend but not coming back as quickly as people thought. A lot of their businesses are well positioned. At this price you are taking a lot less risk.

WEAK BUY

Can certainly go up from here. One of issues is that people saw it as a stable stock and gave it a higher multiple than others in the sector and a lot of these earnings came from GE Capital., which blew up in the crisis. It is a different mix of business and cannot get the old multiple. If you see reasonable global growth, GE will do well.

SELL

Big financial business and big industrial business. He likes the latter. The financial stuff is a big exposure to Europe. He would be nervous of this one because of this. At least sell half of it.

BUY

He is generally cautious on industrials but feels this is a really interesting company because a big part of their business is gas turbine engines. Feels there could be a lot of growth in this space. Dividend of about 4%.

COMMENT

Has not like this one for a long time. Trades at around 12-13 times earnings. 4% yield. One of the problems is that it was given a very high multiple over many years but the earnings came from GE Capital. They're not going to get the stability of earnings anymore. You can pick it up here or on a pullback.

DON'T BUY

Used to own it but exited because it is having difficulty getting traction. Doesn’t think it is as good a value as UTX or HON.

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