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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DON'T BUY

When companies run into trouble they will come out with a laundry list of things to blame. Usually it is management. In this case the seeds of their problem go back to Jack Welch. He set up GE-N for their later fall. He made GE capital such an important part of GE-N. Recently it was set up to be a big player in power generation. One acquisition was exactly at the wrong time. He has his clients completely out of it.

DON'T BUY

They've borrowed huge amounts of capital to buy back stock, which hasn't paid off at all. They have a ton of debt maturities coming in the next two years. He feels very negative about the credit market in general, so avoid GE.

DON'T BUY

They are in a dire financial situation and would not expect any increases in dividends as they fight for cash. Owning it puts you in a tough spot, because he thinks an investor could lose 100% of their holding. He sees better opportunities out there.

DON'T BUY

It got an upgrade from JP Morgan today. The upgrade is going from really bad to a little bit less bad so don't treat it as a catalyst. It is down about 60% in 2018. The drop was due to challenged management and then they spent a lot of money on acquisitions. Most people don’t know what GE-N now does, what business they are in. There is no clear path as to what the business will look like in 2 or 5 years from now. It is speculative in terms of whether it is near the bottom.

PAST TOP PICK

(A Top Pick Jan 26/18, Down 57%) He thought he was clever buying this after major bad news came out. He exited and will stay away from it. Their debt has been seriously downgraded. Then, there's tax-loss selling now.

COMMENT

You have to look back 40 years. They realized that manufacturing would be challenged and so became a financier. It came to an end in 2008 and now they are going back to manufacturing, which they knew would be a touch business. That is why they are suffering. It is difficult to succeed at it.

SELL

Tax-loss sell it. Most recently, they are recalling power-generation units around the world, which will further drag down revenues. 20 years ago, this was a quality company. No longer.

DON'T BUY

Accounting is too complex to understand, so stay away.

WATCH

It is a binary situation. If anyone can turn around the company it is the new CEO – his track record is incredible. The power division remains weak and the capital side is under reserved. He would wait to see improvement.

DON'T BUY

He looked at it a year ago while it was going through re-structuring. He thinks it still has not fully bottomed in price. They are now selling parts of the business to pay down debt and funding costs may be going up. About 40% of their business is in turbine power business and that may be slowing down.

SELL

On a death spiral. If he had it, he’d be out. Would have to break up for him to be interested. It’s going lower.

DON'T BUY

Huge red flags. A shame. There's open talk about whether they can survive. They have to divest; they have no free cash flow. Their power operation is doing poorly, so it'll be hard to sell. He's long been critical of GE and its former CEO. The new one is capable, though he can only do so much. At best, GE is speculative.

DON'T BUY

He sees nothing but pain and agrees with the dividend cut. He thinks the stock needs to fall further and thinks you have to wait to see where the dust settles. He thinks major write downs are still required.

DON'T BUY

It is trying to find a bottom. The last action in the last month is a bit positive. Unless you are a short term trader there is no point in entering at this point.

DON'T BUY

This is a very complex story. It is in the midst of restructuring, it just replaced its CEO. If he owned it, he would not sell it at this price, but he would not buy more in a company that no one understands what the future earnings or cash flow are going to be.

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