Topic: Growth Stocks

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $20 – New York symbol GE

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. $20 (New York symbol GE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 10.6 billion; Market cap: $212.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.5; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.ge.com) plans to split its energy-products division into three new businesses: GE Power and Water (turbines, generators); GE Oil and Gas (products for onshore and offshore energy producers); and GE Energy Management (power-transmission equipment).

This reorganization should make it easier for these new divisions to take advantage of new opportunities. It should also save GE $200 million to $300 million by 2014.

To put these savings in context, GE earned $4.0 billion in the three months ended June 30, 2012. That’s up 6.9% from $3.75 billion a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 11.8%, to $0.38 from $0.34, on fewer shares outstanding. Revenue rose 2.5%, to $36.5 billion from $35.6 billion.

GE is a buy.

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