Company Analysis Report: General Electronics Performance Review

This report provides a comprehensive company analysis of General Electronics (GE), examining its various aspects to inform stakeholders and investors. The analysis covers GE's operations, including its diverse business segments such as healthcare, finance, power, and oil and gas, highlighting its key products and capabilities like research and development. The report discusses GE's competitive landscape, market capitalization, and the importance of its annual reports filed with the SEC. It also addresses the company's strategic initiatives, such as improving its financial position through debt reduction and dividend strategies, and the recent changes in its board structure driven by investor actions. The report concludes by emphasizing the value of company analysis for stakeholders in making informed investment decisions, and it provides an overview of the company's website structure, which includes investor relations, business segments, and career opportunities.

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Executive Summary
The main aim of the study is to carry out the company analysis of General Electronics. This
will help all the stakeholders and the investors in getting deep information about the activities
of the company, its profitability, their capabilities, competitive strategy and others. The
company also needs to file its annual report in the SEC in order to help the investors get an
idea about their performance and predict future of the company.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion on the Company.......................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
A company analysis is done by the investors in order to attain deeper information
about the company (Chandra, 2017). This analysis includes information on the company’s
products, its competitive strategies, its profitability through its annual reports, its products,
rivals, markets and others aspects. General electronics has been in news due to the investor’s
questions about electing revamped board. The aim of the study is to carry out a company
analysis of General Electronics.
Discussion on the Company
General Electronics is a multinational conglomerate from America with its
headquarters in Boston (Demirbag & Yaprak, 2015). The company’s operations can be
divided into many segments’ comprising of- health care, finance and capital, power, lighting,
gas and oil and others. The major products of the company are that of electric motors,
finance, oil and gas, water, software, electrical distribution and others (GE, 2019). The major
capabilities of the company are that it provides diverse range of products, robust research and
development department, a strong brand. The company’s strong research and development
activities provide competitive advantage to the company (Bronzini & Piselli, 2016). Such as
GE’s healthcare segment uses innovation technologies in equipment to treat patients in a
better way. The company faces fierce competition from various other companies in different
segments such as 3M challenges the company’s innovative technologies. It occupies about
$96000 market capital and shares outstanding is worth $8.0B. The company is required to file
its annual report with the Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) to let the investors
have an idea about the performance of the company (Johnston & Petacchi, 2017). The annual
report of the company shows that it is aiming to improve its financial position through

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various strategies. The strategies will include getting a credit rating that is sustainable,
reduction in the overall net debt of the company, to reduce the debt-equity ratio of the
company below 4:1 and to provide dividend rates that is in parity with the industry levels.
The company has currently been in news because of the act by its investors for electing
revamped board (GE, 2019). The company is presently facing problems because it used to
allow its board members for long tenures that made them ineffective because of the security
of job position through long tenures. Now the investors of the company have decided to
overcome this problem by electing new individuals for as board members with a maximum of
2.5 years tenure. This act is aimed to improve the market performance of the company. The
firm’s website gives a concise idea about its activities, its reporting and it has a search bar for
helping the customers easily find what they are looking for.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be concluded that a lot of information can be gained
about the company through its analysis. This information’s relate to its profitability, its
products, its capabilities, its competitive strategy and others. These information are valuable
for all stakeholders especially investors so that they can take decisions regarding investment
in the company. The home page of the website of the company covers four main areas- a
section for the investors that includes all the reports, a section showing the business
segments, a section giving latest news of the company nada los a section showing the career
opportunities.

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References
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Chandra, P. (2017). Investment analysis and portfolio management. McGraw-Hill Education.
Demirbag, M., & Yaprak, A. (Eds.). (2015). Handbook of emerging market multinational
corporations. Edward Elgar Publishing.
GE | Imagination at Work. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.ge.com/
Johnston, R., & Petacchi, R. (2017). Regulatory oversight of financial reporting: Securities
and Exchange Commission comment letters. Contemporary Accounting
Research, 34(2), 1128-1155.