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TickerGE
SectorAerospace & Defense
Mkt cap$310.5B
EV / EBITDA29.1×
PostureHigh Velocity
Composite78/100
LensBuyer-side
SE-Cluster Research·Issuer Brief·Q2 2026CIK 40545

General Electric Company

GEHIGH VELOCITYFILING INTENSITY

General Electric Company reads as an High Velocity (composite 78/100); Transformational Buyer deploying $0 across 0 disclosed transactions, down 100% vs the prior cycle · primary market A&D Components, ranked #2 on disclosed spend.

Lens

Disclosed M&A capital (2023–2025)

N/A

−99%

vs N/A in 2020–2022

Disclosed transactions

N/A

−99%

0/3 active fiscal years in window

Buyer archetype

Transformational Buyer

Episodic but very large disclosed transactions drive the profile.

Composite score

78

/100

High Velocity dominates · Filing Intensity

Financial snapshot
Revenue$48.4B
EBITDA$11B
Enterprise value$319.8B
EV / Revenue6.6×
EV / EBITDA29.1×
P/EN/A
Cash$11B
Total debt$2.1B
as of 2026-05-10
§ I·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Behavioral posture, nine reads.

Each index scores the issuer 0–100 against an EDGAR-anchored definition. Scores ≥ threshold elevate the issuer into the index's constituent set; the dominant index drives the masthead label.

Active Acquirer

56/100

Companies actively deploying disclosed capital into M&A

  • $23.8B disclosed buyer spend
  • Filed within 19d

Buyer Cadence

32/100

Buyer-side companies with recent filing activity

  • Filed within 19d
  • 370 8-Ks

Target Probability

24/100

Issuers showing target-side patterns from filings

  • 131 activism filings

Spin/Carve

0/100

Issuers showing spin-off, carve-out, or sum-of-parts posture

  • 131 activism filings

Pressure Watch

45/100

Issuers facing activism, governance, or control pressure

  • 131 activism filings
  • Latest activism 2.5y ago; discounted

Distress Watch

18/100

Issuers showing financial-distress filing patterns

  • 131 activism filings

Restatement Risk

14/100

Issuers with accounting-integrity flags from filings

  • 2 non-reliance 8-Ks
  • 2 auditor changes
  • Latest event 5.3y ago; heavily discounted

Capital Velocity

Dominant
78/100

Issuers with the highest filing-activity intensity

  • 370 8-Ks
  • Filed within 19d
  • 5 form types

Quiet Power

0/100

Large issuers with low signal volume and clean disclosure cadence

  • Enterprise value $319.8B
  • 10-Q 35d ago
  • 3 active signals
§ II·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Capital cadence.

Ten-year disclosed M&A activity. Bars show spend ($MM); ticks show recorded transaction count. Disclosure tier annotated where v6 audited corpus carries an entry.

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19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Disclosed spend $MM Disclosed transactions (right axis)Peak spend year: $6,100M · Peak count: 1

FYDisclosed buysDisclosed spendAvg ticketAudited tier
2025N/AN/AN/AN/A
2024N/AN/AN/AN/A
2023N/AN/AN/AN/A
2022N/AN/AN/AN/A
20211$1.5B$1.5BN/A
2020N/AN/AN/AN/A
§ III·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Strategy posture.

The buyer's playbook in terms of strategic archetype: what each disclosed move says about how they're deploying capital.

Archetype mix

  • Bolt On
    20%
  • Geographic Expansion
    20%
  • Platform
    20%
  • Horizontal Consolidation
    20%
  • Technology Acquisition
    20%

Strategy keywords

Terms recurring across recent 10-K acquisition disclosures.

  • bolt_on
  • geographic_expansion
  • horizontal_consolidation
  • platform
  • technology_acquisition
  • tuck_in
§ IV·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing language.

Direct excerpts from acquisition disclosures and strategy sections: the verbs the buyer chose, in the filings they signed.

The acquisition of Lineage Power ... continues the expansion of Energy’s offerings from the electric grid to datacenters, cell towers, routers, servers and circuit board electronics.

10-KFY2011

We have developed or acquired new technologies and services that have broadened and changed considerably the scope of our activities.

10-KFY2012

The acquisition and alliances with Alstom affected our Power, Renewable Energy, and Energy Management segments.

10-KFY2015

Alstom's Thermal business is complementary in technology, operations and geography to our business.

10-KFY2015

We integrate acquisitions as quickly as possible.

10-KFY2012
§ V·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Market context.

Where this issuer sits inside its SE-Cluster rollup wedge, with disclosed-spend rank plus trading comparables against the public peer set.

Primary market

A&D Components

Market spend (2023–2025)
$32.8B
Market spend (2020–2022)
$12.9B
Recent vs prior
+153%
Issuer rank in market
#2 of 67
Share of market capital
10.7%

Valuation positioning

29.1×EV / EBITDA

GE trades at a +9.2-turn premium to the A&D Components peer median of 19.8×.

EV / Revenue
6.6×
Net debt / EBITDA
-0.8×
Peer median EV / EBITDA
19.8×

Trading comparables

FMP market data · 2026-05-10

CompanyEV / EBITDAEV / RevNet debt / EBITDARevenueM&A 2023–2025
34.2×9.3×1.8×$4.6B$3.3B
31.5×2.4×-0.9×$92.2B$1.4B
General Electric CompanyGE
29.1×6.6×-0.8×$48.4BN/A
20.1×10.1×5.7×$9.5B$3.5B
19.5×3.0×1.9×$90.4BN/A
16.9×1.8×2.5×$3.1B$1.5B
16.0×2.6×-0.1×$22.5B$13.4B

Trading multiples from FMP market data; disclosed M&A spend from the SE-Cluster EDGAR 10-K corpus. Peer set = top disclosed buyers in A&D Components. Bars scaled to the highest EV/EBITDA in the set.

§ VI·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Target landscape.

Public-issuer targets that fit this buyer's archetype and target categories from filing-derived signal. Scores reflect cross-signal fit; reasons cite the EDGAR-anchored facts that drove the match.

No qualifying public-issuer targets surfaced from the current signal mix.

Stated target categories

No target categories enumerated in the audited corpus for this issuer.

§ VII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Filing activity & signal stream.

Filing cadence and event-driven signals visible on EDGAR. The signal stream below is curated from restatement / spin-carve / activism categories, providing context for any near-term call.

Filing cadence

  • 10-K (annual)282026-01-29
  • 10-Q (quarterly)1082026-04-21
  • 8-K (event)3702026-05-07
  • Proxy / DEF 14A742026-04-16
  • Activism (13D / DFAN / PREC)1312023-11-16

Signals on file

  • critical

    Non-reliance disclosure

    2007-01-19

    2 Item 4.02 filings on file; financial-statement non-reliance.

  • elevated

    Auditor change

    2021-02-12

    2 Item 4.01 filings on file; certifying accountant change.

  • elevated

    Activism on file

    2023-11-16

    131 activist filings on file (13D, DFAN14A, PREC14A series).

  • info

    Signal

    Serial acquisition history

  • info

    Signal

    10-K strategy themes

  • info

    Signal

    Restatement risk

§ VIII·SE-Cluster Issuer Brief

Audited corpus.

No audited record on file for this CIK in the current v6 corpus.

This issuer has not been extracted into the v6 audited acquirer corpus yet. The brief above pulls from ranking-level aggregates and issuer-index signal only.