GE Insider Buying & Government Contracts (2026)

GE insider buying and selling over the past year

Insiders at GENERAL ELECTRIC CO only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 5 Form 4 sales totaling $14.09M, against no open-market purchases.

None of the 5 sales were flagged as Rule 10b5-1 plan trades, meaning each one was a discretionary decision at the time of filing. Activity clustered in 2026-01 (2 trades) and 2026-02 (2 trades); the latest filing in this window is dated 2026-02-03. The average open-market sale price was $304.89; the last close of $313.83 is 2.9% above that level, so sellers left upside on the table. The single largest trade was a sale of 30,363 shares worth $9.31M on 2026-01-30. Since the most recent filing the stock has moved +1.3%, from $309.93.

Where GE trades relative to its one-year range

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO closed at $313.83 on 2026-10-16, inside a one-year range of $273.25 to $381.22. That puts the stock in the middle of its range, at 37.6% of the distance from low to high. Over one year the share price moved +4.7%, and over roughly three months -10.0%. Average daily volume over the last month was about 4,339,286 shares.

Across 100 companies in the same SEC industry group (SIC 36) with a full year of prices in Gemral Edge, the median one-year return was +16.1%. GE is behind that median and beat 38% of that peer group on this measure.

Members of Congress who traded GE

STOCK Act disclosures show 27 trades in GE by 14 members of Congress over five years (10 purchases, 17 sales), most recently on 2026-09-24. The most active traders were Austin Scott (R-GA), 6 trades; Jefferson Shreve (R-IN), 4 trades; Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), 3 trades; Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), 2 trades; Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), 2 trades.

By party the trades split 19 by Republicans, 8 by Democrats; by chamber, 24 from the House, 3 from the Senate.

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO federal contract exposure

Federal procurement records resolve 10 prime award actions to GENERAL ELECTRIC CO, worth $285.84M across 2 agencies. Department of Defense accounts for 95.8% of that value ($273.77M), so revenue from this channel depends heavily on one buyer.

GE lobbying disclosures

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO appears in 15 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings between 2018 and 2018, with $3.15M in reported lobbying spend.

Compare GE with indexed peers from the same industry group

These peers have full Gemral Edge dossiers and the closest one-year price move to GE:

• QCOM one-year return +4.9%
• NXPI one-year return +5.5%
• MSI one-year return +5.9%
• HUBB one-year return +7.5%
• VRT one-year return +16.1%

Sources and method

Every figure above is computed from public filings stored in Gemral Edge, not estimated. Insider figures count only open-market purchases and sales reported on SEC Form 4; option exercises, grants and gifts are excluded because they do not reflect a decision to buy or sell at market prices.

• SEC EDGAR Form 4 (edge_insider_trades, codes P/S open-market only) — as of 2026-02-03
• edge_prices_eod (end-of-day close) — as of 2026-10-16
• House PTR / Senate eFD disclosures (edge_congress_trades) — as of 2026-09-24
• FPDS / USAspending (edge_contracts, tier-1 resolved) — as of 2026-10-14
• Senate LDA filings (edge_lobbying_filings)

GE data questions

Are GE insiders buying or selling stock?

Insiders at GENERAL ELECTRIC CO only sold stock in the open market over the past year: 5 Form 4 sales totaling $14.09M, against no open-market purchases.

What is the one-year price range for GE?

Based on end-of-day closes through 2026-10-16, GE traded between $273.25 and $381.22, last closing at $313.83.

Has any member of Congress traded GE stock?

Yes. 14 members disclosed 27 trades in GE over five years; the most recent disclosed trade date is 2026-09-24.