General Electric Company (GE) is a diversified technology‚ media and financial services company. With products and services ranging from aircrafts engines‚ power generation‚ water processing and security technology to medical imaging‚ business and consumer financing‚ media content and industrial products‚ it serves in more than 100 countries. This analysis will use financial ratios to see just how GE is performing as a Fortune 500 company. The first thing to analyze is GE’s capacity to pay its
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Immelt’s strategies for GE were solid in a theoretical sense. The company should have been delivering above-average returns and seen all the positives that he preached about it. The reason this did not happen and they faced some humiliation in 2008 until 2010 were due to GE Capital. Immelt thought that they were diversified enough to survive the economic downturn. However this proved to be wrong. In an interview for BusinessWeek magazine David Magee‚ author of Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way‚ spoke on what
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17 Appendix 1 Appendix 2 1.0 Company Introduction GE is a global infrastructure‚ finance and media company taking on the world’s toughest challenges. From everyday light bulbs to fuel cell technology‚ to cleaner‚ more efficient jet engines‚ GE has continually shaped our world with groundbreaking innovations for over 130 years. GE has a strong set of global businesses in infrastructure‚ finance and media aligned to meet today’s needs‚ including
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or failure. Introduction General Electric (GE) is a diversified industrial corporation. The company’s products and services range from aircraft engines‚ power generation‚ water processing‚ and household appliances to medical imaging‚ business and consumer financing and industrial products. The company primarily operates in North America‚ Europe‚ Asia‚ South America‚ Australia and Africa. It is headquartered in Fairfield‚ Connecticut‚ and GE employs around 287‚000 people (Datamonitor pg. 4)
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Industry : Diversified Abstract: GE is one of the world’s leading conglomerates with operations spread across eleven businesses. It has been adjudged as one of the top companies for executive development in the world in recognition of its ability to nurture executive talent. It further explains how a strong learning culture was developed at GE through innovative programs like Work-Out. It also details the various employee training and education initiatives undertaken at GE and examines how these initiatives
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-the company’s NBC Television Network is one of the four major commercial broadcast television networks.2011‚ Fortune Magazine ranked GE as the sixth largest firm in the US‚ as well as the 14th most profitable. -GE has one of the most diversified technology‚ media‚ and financial services corporations in the world. It operates through five segments including‚ GE Capital‚ technology infrastructure‚ energy infrastructure‚ NBC Universal‚ and home and business solutions.-The company has a strong presence
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Weighting Asset GM -0.8% MRK 34.8% GE 66.0% 100.0% Risk-free rate 7% Expected Return 41.3% Expected standard deviation 21.4% Sharpe Ratio 1.60 1. Then we try the following actions and try to understand their consequences: a. Suppose that GM has decided to become a diversified conglomerate‚ much like GE‚ so that its correlation with GE will be 0.80 instead of 0.26. Weighting GM -61.4% MRK 21.1% GE 140.2% 100.0% Risk-free rate 5% Expected
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Electric Company (GE) General Electric‚ short as GE‚ is a leading multi-industrial company involving in energy‚ appliance‚ finance and transportation businesses. It has more than 100 years of history‚ and generally be viewed as one of the most successful product and service providers across continents. GE has gross revenue of more than 147 billion dollars‚ and is currently ranking No.6 in Fortune 500 U.S. by revenue. A. Introduction General Electric Company (GE) is a multinational
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of cooperation‚ GE is focused on driving the Middle East region’s financial development through solid and long haul open private partnerships. GE is centered on development and innovative headways to meet the squeezing challenges of the region crosswise over differed segments from medicinal services to aviation and energy to water shortage. Driven by the vision and definitive activity of submitted pioneers‚ the Middle East is on a development way to wind up a global center point. GE is partnering in
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Based on this information‚ can GE successfully prevent Maytag from entering this market by increasing its advertising levels? What is the equilibrium outcome in this game? Suppose that an analyst at GE is convinced that just a little bit more advertising by GE‚ say another $2m‚ would be sufficient to deter enough customers from buying Maytag‚ thus‚ yield less than $0 profits for Maytag in the event it enters. Suppose that spending an extra $2m on advertising by GE will reduce its expected profits
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