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General ElectricGECOMMENTJun 17, 2014Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 18, 2026. Market Open.
Pure play on aerospace powerhouse. Chart shows volatility, but sideways trading shows potential to move to the upside.
Sells an engine once, but generates decades of high-margin service revenue. Service backlog continues to build, giving it highly visible recurring revenue and cashflow. Concerns about economic slowdowns, but airlines are extending life of existing fleets (that means more maintenance, not less). Ranks 7/10 for her. Yield is 0.66%.
Now a pure-play aircraft engine market leader. Sees it still dominating the jet engine market. Value score of 3/10. Analysts still see ~15% upside. Technically, looks to be trying to break out above $170; if it goes higher, could see a bit of a breakout.
Looks to be hitting a ceiling. Great run, aerospace is an exceptional business. Hold in short term and take some profits soon.
Tremendous run over the last couple of years, so you need to be careful. You don't necessarily need to sell, but you need to be prudent by rebalancing and getting back to a level of risk you're comfortable with. Stick with the winners, and this one is. Still positive on it, but make sure you're not over-exposed.
The spin-off of their financial division is the smartest thing they could be doing. There is a great lifecycle in conglomerates. They start off and pull together all kinds of companies, and they grow and grow. Get to their “level of incompetence” where, on the next acquisition, they will have to buy the other half of the world, and then things stop. It doesn’t have anything in the way of upside potential, but what it does have are all these wonderful companies inside it. So the 2nd part of a good conglomerate is where they start to spin off the parts. It turns out that the sum of the parts is worth an awful lot more than the whole.