GE Has a No-Drama Earnings Beat, Powered by Its Free Cash Flow

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General Electric is yet gaining momentum. The iconic institution posted better-than-expected earnings, with small drama, this past week. GE bushed estimates and raised its full-year, free-cash-flow guidance for concern operations to a midpoint of immoderate $4.3 billion, $800 cardinal implicit the erstwhile guidance. The stock, astatine $12.95, was up 2% connected the week and 20% this year. The S&P 500 scale is up 17% for 2021.

Larry Culp was hired successful precocious 2018 to crook astir a then-floundering GE. Industrial escaped currency travel generated from 2018 to 2020 amounted to $1.7 billion, down from a unsmooth mean of $12 cardinal successful 2015 to 2016. During the pandemic, currency travel skidded to immoderate $600 million. “[Free currency flow] has been the fixation for investors since [Culp] took over, and for evident reasons.…It was awful,” wrote Melius expert Scott Davis. He called the caller guidance a “notable and captious positive.” RBC’s Deane Dray said successful a note, “GE’s ‘North Star’ continues to beryllium improving [cash flow].” He rates GE shares a Buy, with a $16 terms target.

Another bull, William Blair’s Nicholas Heymann, praised GE’s “steady sequential betterment crossed virtually each businesses and cardinal metrics.” He sees 30% upside imaginable for the banal and rates it a Buy, but hasn’t published a terms target. A 30% gain, however, would enactment it astir $17.

Not everyone is that upbeat; Wall Street’s mean people is $14.68. Oppenheimer’s Christopher Glynn rates the shares a Hold, besides with nary terms target. Still, helium sees affirmative changes astatine GE. And it’s abruptly hard to find bears connected General Electric. Some 67% of analysts slap a Buy connected its shares, versus the mean Buy ratio for S&P 500 stocks of 55%. No 1 says sell.

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