Highlights from the 20 Most-Searched Stocks Among Financial Advisors: Focus on Earnings and ETFs

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) also made it to the top 20 list and ranks as the third most-searched stock among financial advisors. On January 22, the company also reported its financial results for the fourth quarter, posting adjusted EPS of $0.52 on revenue of $33.9 billion. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE)’s EPS managed to beat the consensus estimate of $0.49, but its revenue came in notably lower than the $35.92 billion estimated and from the $42 billion disclosed a year earlier. A week before the results, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced the sale of its home appliances unit to Chinese company Haier in a $5.4 billion transaction.

Earlier this year, the company also disclosed plans to relocate its global headquarters to Boston from Fairfield, Connecticut and sell its offices in Connecticut and Rockefeller Plaza in New York. In addition, General Electric has said that it will cut 6,500 jobs in Europe. Among the funds we track, General Electric is fairly popular, with the number of investors bullish on the stock growing to 74 from 70 during the third quarter of last year. Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners owns around 90.57 million shares of GE as of the end of September, while Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management holds some 30.85 million shares.