general electric

New York symbol GE, is one of the world’s largest industrial companies. It operates in six main segments: Infrastructure; Commercial Finance; Consumer Finance; Healthcare; Industrial; and Media.

BANK OF MONTREAL $99 (Toronto symbol BMO; Income-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 647.7 million; Market cap: $64.1 billion; Dividend yield: 3.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.bmo.com) began operating in 1817, making it Canada’s oldest chartered bank....
HUDSON’S BAY CO. $11 (Toronto symbol HBC; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 182.7 million; Market cap: $2.0 billion; Takeover Target Rating: Highest; Dividend yield: 0.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Specualtive; www. hbc.com) operates Canadian retail chains Hudson’s Bay and Home Outfitters; HBC Europe; Lord & Taylor; Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th.

The retailer seems to be taking some of the advice of activist investor Jonathan Litt, who holds roughly 5% of the company....
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $22 (New York symbol GE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 8.7 billion; Market cap: $191.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.6; Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ge.com) is a leading maker of industrial machinery, including jet engines, power plant equipment and locomotives....
GENERAL ELECTRIC $23 (New York symbol GE, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 8.7 billion; Market cap: $200.1 billion; Takeover Target Rating: Lowest; Dividend yield: 4.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ge.com) is a leading maker of industrial machinery, including jet engines, power plant equipment and locomotives....
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $24 (New York symbol GE; Income Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 8.7 billion; Market cap: $208.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.8; Dividend yield: 4.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ge.com) is another target of activist investor Nelson Peltz; his Trian Partners (see left) owns 1% of GE....
Activist investors have a long history of pressuring large firms to boost shareholder value by spinning off businesses and aggressively cutting costs.

For example, Nelson Peltz, through his firm Trian Partners, has now targeted two of our long-term recommendations: General Electric and Procter & Gamble....
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General Electric’s shares are down over 20% since the start of 2017. The decline is largely due to uncertainty about future oil prices. That volatility has prompted many producers to delay new purchases of GE’s drilling equipment. The company’s overall sales have also slowed because of a global oversupply of locomotives....
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $28 (New York symbol GE; IncomeGrowth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 9.2 billion; Market cap: $257.6 billion; Dividend yield: 3.4%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www. ge.com) is a leading maker of industrial machinery, including jet engines, power plant equipment and locomotives....
A: Alphabet Inc., $942.90, (Nasdaq symbols GOOG [class C non-voting] and $961.81, GOOGL [class A voting], Shares outstanding: 640.7 million; Market cap: $658.8 billion, www.abc.xyz), has been one of our top tech buys of the past few years....