Anyone interested in quick information on General Electric stock, take a look right here. You will find the most important numbers in GE trading today, August 16, 2017, like where shares last closed, how the current stock price compares to recent highs and lows, GE's dividend yield - plus some other must-know data on General Electric shares. To start, the GE stock closing price was $25.14. Shares went down 0.87% or $0.22 from the previous day's close. It's best to not only look at recent General Electric share data, but also look at the year's highs and lows to see where the current price stacks up... At its current level, GE is trading below where it was one-year ago, with the stock price having slipped 19.53%.

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The General Electric stock price 52-week high is $32.38. That was hit on 12/20/2016. The GE stock 52-week low is $25.10, reached on 8/15/2017. And, take note - GE trading volume yesterday was 24,291,998. That's lower than General Electric stock's average daily trading volume of 27,334,900. The market cap of General Electric is 217,660,864,000. That means General Electric has a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As of April 1, 2016, the company with the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies is Apple.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of General Electric stock is 19.84. That's lower than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare GE to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of GE is 0.81. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for General Electric is 1.21. General Electric stock has a dividend yield of 3.79%. Most income investors look for "dividend stocks" that have a yield of 2% or more, but there are different factors that affect the health of a company's payout. Money Morning gives you General Electric stock news daily. We publish new info on GE and dozens of other key companies we're watching now, every day, so investors will never miss an opportunity. As always, our content is free.

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