General Electric (GE) delivers earnings for the fourth quarter early Tuesday as commercial aviation continues to recover while global recession worries grow. GE stock was little changed early Monday.
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The GE earnings report will be the industrial giant’s first since the early January spinoff of its health-care business. Along with Q4 earnings, investors may hope for an update on the planned separation of its power and renewable energy businesses in early 2024.
That separation will allow the “new GE” to emerge as an aviation-focused company next year.
Outlook for 2023 will be key. Both the commercial and defense aviation markets are seen poised for growth after recent challenges that stemmed, in large part, from coronavirus pandemic-related disruptions.
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General Electric Earnings
Estimates: Analysts polled by FactSet expect GE earnings to increase 60% year over year, to $1.15 per share. Revenue is seen rebounding 6% to $21.558 billion.
Wall Street predicts free cash flow (FCF) of $4.224 billion, up from both the prior, third, quarter and a year ago. GE’s cash flows are typically strongest in the final quarter.
Results: Check back Tuesday before the market open.
Outlook: Analysts will look for GE management to offer guidance for 2023 earnings and FCF, after its health-care spinoff in January.
GE Stock, GEHC Stock
Shares of General Electric perked up 1.4% in early trade on the stock market today. GE stock is up 68% since July, climbing the right side of a deep, 14-month-long base. Shares are 15% below the base’s left-side high.
The relative strength line for GE stock is hitting its highest level since mid-2021. A Relative Strength Rating of 95, out of a best-possible 99, means that GE stock has outperformed 95% of all stocks in IBD’s database over the past year.
The health care spinoff, GE HealthCare Technologies (GEHC), rallied 3.5% Monday. It is up 30% since its Jan. 4 Nasdaq debut.
General Electric is set to emerge as an aviation pure-play in early 2024. The once-storied conglomerate shed a series of businesses over the past several years, amid a collapse in earnings and cash generation.
In aviation, General Electric supplies plane makers Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSY) with jet engines and systems.
Commercial aviation continues to recover after the pandemic, with Delta Air Lines (DAL) and American Airlines (AAL) recently boosting guidance on robust travel demand.
GE Aviation also supplies the military. The defense business weighed on GE earnings in the third quarter.
When GE reports Q4 results Jan. 24, investors will watch for any falloff in demand amid a weakening macro economy, and growing recession fears.
For multinationals like GE, rate hikes by global central banks are a headwind.
These companies also face myriad other challenges tied to inflation, supply chain disruptions, European market slowing, the protracted Russia-Ukraine war, semiconductor shortages, and a strong U.S. dollar.
Over the past year through Jan. 11, GE stock fell 2.9% vs. a 16% decline for the S&P 500 index.
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