General Electric, long a symbol of American manufacturing and steeped in a rich history, is officially moving on from its existence as a sprawling conglomerate. In its heyday, GE’s stock became one of the most sought after on Wall Street under Jack Welch, one of America’s first CEO “superstars.” Nicknamed “the house that Jack built,” GE routinely outperformed peers and …
New York CNN Business — General Electric’s turnaround has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The conglomerate said Wednesday it burned through $2.2 billion of cash during the first quarter as its jet engine business got slammed by a “rapid decline” in global commercial aviation orders in March. Yet GE’s industrial free cash flow burn rate nearly doubled during the …
New York CNN Business — The biggest comeback kid on Wall Street is 126 years old. “We are doing everything in our power to return GE to a position of strength,” Culp wrote in his inaugural annual shareholder letter on Wednesday. No fire sale Wall Street applauded GE’s decision to sell part — but not all — of its healthcare …
General Electric said on Monday it would sell its biopharma business to Danaher Corp for $21.4 billion in the biggest strategy reversal since Lawrence Culp took over as the industrial conglomerate's chief executive in September. The biopharma sale also propelled a broad rally in GE's roughly $120 billion of bonds, which had taken a pounding in late 2018 as it …