In today’s recent session, 1.26 million shares of the GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) have been traded, and its beta is 1.46. Most recently the company’s share price was $247.64, and it changed around $0.59 or 0.24% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $264.08B. GE at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $260.55, offering almost -5.21% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $150.20, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 39.35% since then. We note from GE Aerospace’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 8.02 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 6.50 million.
GE Aerospace stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.57. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 19 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 3 recommended GE as a Hold, whereas 13 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) trade information
Instantly GE has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 0.24% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 251.53 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.55%. The company’s shares are currently up 54.29% year-to-date, but still down -0.55% over the last five days. On the other hand, GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE) is -3.13% down in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 12.75 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.98 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $262.5, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 5.66% from its current value. Analyst projections state that GE is forecast to be at a low of $250 and a high of $275.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 94.19%. GE Aerospace earnings are expected to increase by 21.05% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 18.13% per year for the next five years.
GE Dividends
GE Aerospace’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-22. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 0.52 percent and its annual dividend per share was 1.28. It is important to note, however, that the 0.52% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 0.39 per year.
GE Aerospace (NYSE:GE)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.17% of GE Aerospace shares, and 80.11% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 80.25%. GE Aerospace stock is held by 3206.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 8.203% of the shares, which is about 89.33 million shares worth $14.2 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 7.3222% or 79.74 million shares worth $12.68 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 32.21 shares worth $7.96 billion, making up 3.02% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 29.82 shares worth around $7.37 billion, which represents about 2.80% of the total shares outstanding.
