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[usmbtech]

Thoughts on GE?

 

[Modbert]

Thoughts on GE?

One of the more painful companies to watch and for me to invest in for the stock market game.

YTD: The stock has lost almost $4.00 per share and is only worth $11.62.

This time a year ago, it was hovering around $34.00 dollars; it's best before 9/11.

 

[usmbtech]

Ya, I first bought in around $20.00 (after buffet announced his big purchase) and have been averaging down since

 

[Anguille]

I will be seeing a R &D executive at GE this weekend and wil ask him what he thinks. They just started some interesting new collaborations with Nuovo Pignone that look promissing.

 

[American Horse]

I will be seeing a R &D executive at GE this weekend and wil ask him what he thinks. They just started some interesting new collaborations with Nuovo Pignone that look promissing.

I'm watching, almost with hopes that it will sink into single digits, with some forlorne hope that once a level like that is reached, the board of directors will ask for Imelt's resiignation. The low today was $10.66 share price. My wife worked at GE between from 70 to 72 and a small payroll deduction was taken out for stock purchases, not more than $300. Through reinvestments of dividends that grew to 1,000 shares over the years, something we considered to be a supplement to our SS at retirement.

When it was at $59 a share my wife said "sell", and I said let's wait a little while for the president to get his proposed capital gains tax passed, because we had almost no cost basis, we'd pay too much cap gains tax. But by the time Congress passed any cap gains reductions it was too late and too little. And by that time the skid had gotten well advanced.

Since all this loss has taken place under Imelt, I've hoped that at some point he would be replaced for the good of the company. But it appears that either the board of directors are as ineffective as he is or they are putty in his hands, I suppose for the lucrative easy pay and the perks he provides. Unfortunately I have to conclude that they are all of the same ilk.

In an article (Put the Shareholders Back in Charge of Companies - WSJ.com ) in the WSJ Yesterday, February 9, Carl Icahn said "Managers often come up with creative ways to perpetuate their reigns of error. These include myriad takeover obstacles like poison pills, bylaw provisions, and others devices that thwart shareholder efforts to hold managers accountable."

As the economy continues to fall, congress needs to do something more effective and directly to improve Corporate Governance. They need to write some legislation to give stock holders more influence in electing new boards, submitting resolutions for stockholder votes and input in executive compensation and other issues.

First, Congress needs to pass legislation giving shareholders enhanced rights to elect new boards, submit resolutions for stockholder votes, and have far more input on executive compensation and other issues. As companion to these reforms, Congress needs to pass legislation that prevents managers from making it more difficult for shareholders to exercise their ownership rights.

Icahn says "If Congress is reluctant to make wholesale changes at the federal level, it can enact one simple provision that would allow many of the needed changes to take place on the state level: It can give shareholders the right to vote to move a company's legal jurisdiction to a more shareholder-friendly state such as North Dakota. Currently that decision is in the hands of company boards.

It is not reasonable to expect managers with failing track records to improve their performance on their own. They will only improve if they are placed under greater pressure by shareholders empowered to exert more influence on management decisions. Nothing will do more to improve our economy than corporate governance changes."

This is the kind of change I am hoping for.

 

[Paulie]

I like GE. I think they're at a pretty stable low at this point, their balance sheet isn't horrible, and they stand to gain from the stimulus and the whole "green" push.

 

[Anguille]

My contact is now in Product and says the turbine engine stuff happening with Nuovo Pignone, Teradyne, GE's new partner in India and at the plant they set up near Warsaw is going extremely well. 4 internal reports just went out concerning the financial situation and like any other company, recovery is going to take 2 or 3 years. Things are not good but they are not yet in desperate straits.

 

[Valerie]

Thoughts on GE?

Could have had it at less than $6.00 just last week!





GEN ELECTRIC CO
(NYSE: GE)

After Hours: 9.05 Up 0.18 (2.03%) 7:59PM EThelp
Last Trade: 8.87
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Volume: 368,767,365
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Market Cap: 93.67B
P/E (ttm): 5.17
EPS (ttm): 1.72
Div & Yield: 1.24 (14.60%)

 

[manu1959]

ya ...i sold a bunch of bofa at 60.....it is now at 4.......thinking of buying again.....

 

[Paulie]

Thoughts on GE?

Could have had it at less than $6.00 just last week!

Yeah if my limited amount of play money wasn't tied up in a damn financial ETF that was tanked at that moment I would have grabbed GE at $6. Holding that ETF looks like it might pay off though. I'm hoping for one more big bounce tomorrow on SOME kind of M2M news and I'm going to dump it and wait and see if GE comes down. If not, I might play with a 2X oil ETF (I'm drawn to the leveraged ETF's like a crack fiend these days ). Oil demand numbers are coming out Friday and it looks as though it might be bullish. I think we're watching oil slowly creep up into the 50's and maybe higher. OPEC isn't making any money at ~$40.

 

[Toro]

I put a small spreadsheet on GE the other day.

The normalized run rate on nonfinancial earnings is $1-$1.40. Thus, excluding GE Capital, I calculated the value of the rest of the company at $12-$15. Thus, GE Capital is being valued at a negative amount.

 

[Valerie]

Thoughts on GE?

Could have had it at less than $6.00 just last week!

Yeah if my limited amount of play money wasn't tied up in a damn financial ETF that was tanked at that moment I would have grabbed GE at $6. Holding that ETF looks like it might pay off though. I'm hoping for one more big bounce tomorrow on SOME kind of M2M news and I'm going to dump it and wait and see if GE comes down. If not, I might play with a 2X oil ETF (I'm drawn to the leveraged ETF's like a crack fiend these days ). Oil demand numbers are coming out Friday and it looks as though it might be bullish. I think we're watching oil slowly creep up into the 50's and maybe higher. OPEC isn't making any money at ~$40.

Hang on Paulie!

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[usmbtech]

GE got a credit downgrade this morning and up 11% What oil etf are you looking at? DXO?

Thoughts on GE?

Could have had it at less than $6.00 just last week!

Yeah if my limited amount of play money wasn't tied up in a damn financial ETF that was tanked at that moment I would have grabbed GE at $6. Holding that ETF looks like it might pay off though. I'm hoping for one more big bounce tomorrow on SOME kind of M2M news and I'm going to dump it and wait and see if GE comes down. If not, I might play with a 2X oil ETF (I'm drawn to the leveraged ETF's like a crack fiend these days ). Oil demand numbers are coming out Friday and it looks as though it might be bullish. I think we're watching oil slowly creep up into the 50's and maybe higher. OPEC isn't making any money at ~$40.

 

[DavidS]

Wow, just wow. It's amazing how a company will do well when the news is bad, but not as bad as it could be.

The market IS oversold. And we're finally getting that bounce I talked about over 7000! Our bottom was around 6500. This is great news.

 

[Valerie]

Thoughts on GE?

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[Ravi]

Thoughts on GE?

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[editec]

If America decides to go back into building nuclear power plants, GE is in an ideal position to capitalize on that decision.

 

[Valerie]

General Electric Company Common (GE)
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20.16 Up 0.37(1.87%) 4:01PM EDT|After Hours: 20.24 Up 0.08 (0.40%) 7:59PM EDT
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Prev Close: 19.79
Open: 19.87
Bid: 20.16 x 1500
Ask: 20.87 x 200
1y Target Est: 21.93
Beta: 1.71
Next Earnings Date: 20-Apr-12GE Earnings announcement
Day's Range: 19.86 - 20.20
52wk Range: 14.02 - 20.85
Volume: 76,328,140
Avg Vol (3m): 50,497,800
Market Cap: 213.32B
P/E (ttm): 16.30
EPS (ttm): 1.24
Div & Yield: 0.68 (3.50%)

GE: Summary for General Electric Company Common- Yahoo! Finance

 

[whitehall]

By the time the IUE and the CWA unions finish with G.E. and union thugs retire with lavish pensions there won't be much left of the company. Ditto most of the unionized factories. Barry even exempted union thugs from his health care boondoggle.

 

[fdsgrs]

well