General Electric Company (GE)

Despite its drag on performance thanks to GE Capital, it has steady income flow from diversified portfolio.

The brand, the history and lessons management has hopefully learned should turn this clunker back into the jewel it once was. As I originally bought it at $11.25, I'm still looking at the long-term for the swan to come back strong.

Yes

GE over the past decade or so leading up to the this recession engaged itself in what I like to call diworsification. The company diversified itself into non-core businesses that it does NOT excel at, and the business has suffered during the crisis as a result. With that said, GE is a behemoth and the various assets this company acquired over the years can be sold, raising billions, and reinvested into their CORE business strategy--most promising is their energy infrastructure and technology infrastructure segments. The divestitures are happening rather quickly with the sales of its security business and now in talks to sell NBC. This will take time, but GE will come out of this mess significantly stronger. A good long term buy.

Purse strings should start loosening as the recession ease up. The appliance cash for clunkers program should help motivate. GE has the name brand.

Buy it and never sell it! You'll be just fine, baby.

It has been battered down too much, the company can survive in crisis times because of its diversified wide range of services.

GE has always been a reliable company, I beleive it will steadily rise to the top once more.

Growth is going to come from big government contracts. They are positioning themselves very well for the future of energy technology. Moving out of evertainment with the sale of NBC is a good move.

GE Capital is in a "fix" mode and will enhance the stock price as it gets better.

seems cheap

undervalued, growth potential based on new products entering the mkt, for going green.

Cheap!

GE is solid, but is still trading at 25% value of decade highs. They are now moving into uranium enrichment, I have high hopes for GE's future as the economy improves.

Strong DCF. There is a lot of value in this company. Under priced to Outperform

I loved it when I bought at 7. I had to take profits lookin' for another dip. Didn't happen.. gonna get back in now tho...looking for at least 25.

What's not to like other than the under-rated finance unit? Strong competitive foundation in numerous segments of heavy industry, which are unlikely to see serious threat from others. In finance, the underlying assets are stronger than commonly believed, the cash flow is positive, and credit quality is improving. Even the credit card segment is performing better than peers.

No question they are currently cheap. Super cheap. A lot of their problems the past bit have been with their financial guys. They are still makin toasters and vacuums etc. So as they weed out their old toxic problems, they will rebound. Main question is: will they be The General Electric that we knew? Or one among equals?
Now tho: cheap.

The Government is going to be pouring thousands into this company soon, and it is a good one.