Question

Choose a public company and report on its stock performance. Answer the following questions:

1. Provide a brief company description.
2. What it its stock symbol?
3. What is its current stock price (report the date/time you note the price).
4. What is the number of outstanding shares? What does this say about the company?
5. What is the one week, one month, and one year price range?
6. What are the earnings per share (EPS)? What does this mean?
7. What latest news about this company have been reported and how did the news affect the stock price?
8. Would you invest into this company? If so, would it be long or short-term? Explain.

Do NOT use Apple, Google, Tesla, or Facebook stocks.

Answer 1

Since there are multiple questions will only answer top 4

The company is General Electric (GE)

1) GE is US based Industrial manufacturing conglomerate incorporated in New York City and headquartered in Boston. It has interests broadly in aviation, healthcare, power and renewable energy. In 2018 GE reported revenue of around $121 billion. In 1896 GE was one of original 12 companies listed on dow jones industrial average.

2) General stock symbol at New York stock exchange is GE.

3) The current stock price is $10

4) It has 8.72 Billion shared outstanding. It says the company currently is under valued since the market capitalization comes out as $87.2 billion (Shares outstanding* share price) but revenue which the company generated was in upwards of $120 Billion.