There aren't enough hours in the day to get a detailed look at your favorite investments, like General Motors stock. So here's a quick look at GM's most important numbers right now (for July 26, 2017). Let's start with where GM stock closed yesterday - at $35.57. From the previous trading session General Motors shares slipped 0.70% or $0.25 . Just looking at the General Motors stock price in a short time frame is not as helpful as looking at a year's worth of share price data, so let's do that... At its current level, GM is trading at a price more than it was one-year ago, with the stock price higher by 10.95%.

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The General Motors stock price 52-week high is $38.55. That was hit on 3/06/2017. The GM stock 52-week low is $29.82, reached on 8/02/2016. Another point to note - GM trading volume yesterday was 11,699,801. That's not quite as high as General Motors stock's average daily trading volume of 14,542,565. General Motors's market capitalization - the amount of shares outstanding times the share price - is 53,724,928,000. That gives General Motors a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of the start of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of General Motors stock is 5.50. That's not as high as 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 GM to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of GM is 6.46. 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 Motors is 1.45. General Motors stock has a dividend yield of 4.24%. 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 Motors stock news daily. We publish new info on GM 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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