Welch didn't think of GE as merely a manufacturing company — he thought of it as a boundary-less business. For all the positive things GE employees and analysts have said about Welch, just as many accusations have been hurled at his successor.
Immelt was hand-picked by Welch, who publicly praised Immelt when he stepped down in August I wish him the very best in the many good years ahead. Welch later admitted to other GE executives that the choice was one of his biggest mistakes, according to Fox Business. A lot happened during Immelt's 16 years running GE. It went back to focusing on what it did before Welch took over — manufacturing. For most of his tenure, Immelt had two private jets — one that he used regularly, and one that he kept as a spare , without telling GE's board of directors.
The board only found out after the Wall Street Journal reported it in October Immelt stepped down with only seven weeks' notice. Stockholders have not fared well. A share of GE stock had, until the 21st Century, been a solid investment vehicle.
Between and the stock split multiple times and returned steady dividends, rewarding shareholders with significant returns on investment even while the stock price remained steady. This ended with the bear market of the early s. While General Electric's stock recovered somewhat from those losses, it wasn't to the same degree as many of its peer firms.
It took further substantial losses during the Great Recession. Dividends have essentially halted. The major reason for General Electric's numerous sell-offs has been to restructure the company and focus on a core industrial manufacturing base. Recently ousted CEO John Flannery planned to focus on GE's large-scale and enterprise product divisions, such as aerospace, train and power manufacturing, as well as military contracting and potentially life sciences, and that plan appears to continue.
Whether that will succeed obviously remains to be seen, however, major investors remain skittish with firms such as J. JPM Report continuing to rate it a "very expensive stock. The firm's additional decisions to scale back research and development raises further concerns about its future-forward viability, as does the company's change of leadership less than a year after appointing Flannery as CEO. General Electric has embarked on a new era.
After more than years of constant growth fueled by mergers and acquisitions into almost every area of American business it has begun shrinking rapidly. The company's new vision is to focus intently on a few core areas of its business. Whether that's enough to help it recover from the recent years, or whether this will simply usher Thomas Edison's company into irrelevancy, remains to be seen. But these Mad Money megatrends could help you fight back. Lucid Motors earnings are due Monday, with the Tesla rival's production goals in focus.
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That "ice breaking" innovation paved the way for GE to gain a formidable reputation as a leader in technology. Plain ice was the primary cooling source for family and commercial use prior to the Kelvinator company's small-scale production of mechanical refrigeration.
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