Word: ge
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...GE has stuck to its case that it has been careful to tell investors exactly what is going on inside the financial unit. Yesterday, the firm said, "We made $8.6B in financial services in 2008, and we have an excellent franchise that we are restructuring to perform in the current environment. Also, we have an "originate to hold" model that is highly collateralized, so we have a more conservative approach than the U.S. consumer banks...
...valuable to look at the shares of GE through the eyes of common sense. The company has lost $300 billion of market capitalization in about a year. During the same period, Citigroup has lost $130 billion in market cap. Bank of America has lost $200 billion. Since GE's financial services business is not the majority of its revenue, the destruction of it market value seems extreme. Balance sheet jockeys would say that the trouble the market fears is hidden within GE's asset base and will jump out to eviscerate earnings soon. So far there is no sign that...
...GE still has a number of remarkable businesses. The sales at it energy infrastructure business has gone from $19.8 billion in 2004 to $38.5 billion last year. Revenue at GE's technology infrastructure business has gone from $30 billion to $46.3 billion over the same period. The profits at both these segments of GE have gone up at similar rates...
...easy knocks against GE is that it board has not kept CEO Jeff Immelt on a shorter leash. He should have been forced out of many of the company's consumer and industrial businesses more quickly. That criticism seems reasonable. Immelt has also hung on to NBCU, the company's entertainment unit. While it does not belong with the rest of GE's businesses, it performance has not harmed the parent. At its worst, it can be viewed as an expensive way to get good seats at the Olympics. Looked at in a better light it bought in $3.1 billion...
...GE is not the monstrosity that the stock market has made it out to be. It may cut its dividend or lose its precious credit rating. Its financial service businesses may post large loses. But, it should not trade like a money center bank that the federal government is about to nationalize...