General Electric: Good Choice For Savvy Investors

Bret Jensen submits:Today I would like to highlight one of the icons of American Industry and the only remaining member of the original Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA), General Electric (GE).

ByNick Chiu:General Electric Company (GE), with a market cap of $226.16B, is a diversified technology and financial services company and a leader in all markets in which it competes. On April 19, 2013, GE reported in-line operating profit of $3.6B or 35 cents per share.

Household wealth in the U.S. climbed in the fourth quarter to the highest level in five years, propelled by a gain in home prices that is helping repair family finances. Net worth for households and non-profit groups increased by US$1.17 trillion from October through December, or 1.8% from the previous three months, to US$66.1 trillion, the Federal Reserve said Thursday from Washington in its flow of funds report. It was the highest since the fourth quarter of 2007.

In November, Citi opened a state-of-the-art data center in Texas. The new 305,000-square-foot facility features computer servers that are "virtualized" so each can do the work of 10 older models, software that alerts operators if systems aren't running efficiently, and pollution controls on emissions and water usage. The new center is part of an effort to cut in half the 52 data centers Citi operates worldwide. Those centers—often kept as cold as an icebox so computers will run optimally—account for 24 percent of the company's power usage.

General Electric Company (GE) Q4 2012 Earnings Call February 13, 2013 09:30 AM ET Executives Trevor Schauenberg - VP, Investor Communications Keith Sherin - CFO Jeff Immelt - CEO Analysts Scott Davis - Barclays Steve Tusa - JPMorgan Jeff Sprague - Vertical Research Deane Dray - Citi Research John Inch - Deutsche Bank Steve Winoker - Sanford Bernstein

By John Mylant: Even though General Electric (GE) revealed numbers this quarter that look average, I believe the company is anything but that. The stock is presently bullish and management is making smart moves to keep itself that way in the near and distant future. Let's take a look at the numbers this quarter and also how the business is focusing back on its "roots" and how it is paying off.

By Muhammad Bazil:JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM) reported, on April 13, a 3.1 decline in its earnings for the first quarter of 2012. This was below what analysts on Wall Street had predicted.

Post co-authored by Scott Davis, UPS Chairman and CEO, and Secretary Gary Locke Robust and global trade drives the world’s economic engine.  And it’s the quickest and surest way we know to accelerate economic growth, create new jobs and improve living standards.  Now we freely admit that UPS has an interest here.  At any given moment, UPS handles 6 percent of the U.S. GDP and moves 2 percent of the global GDP.  So global trade is important to the future of UPS, and that holds true for its workers, and for workers across America.  Every 22 packages per day that cross a border supports one job in UPS’s package operation. That’s why UPS is so supportive of President Obama’s recent announcement of a landmark trade deal with South Korea, which is estimated to increase American economic output by more than the last nine trade agreements combined. UPS’s logistics and lending services empower businesses of all sizes to export their goods and services virtually anywhere in the world, and with the impending passage of this agreement, there will be a lot more businesses to work with.