Trian Takes Board Seat at General Electric; Aggressive Cost Cuts and Asset Sales Likely on Horizon
Following the management shakeup on Oct. 6, wide-moat GE announced that Ed Garden of Trian will immediately replace former Deere CEO Robert Lane on the board of directors. GE shares have underperformed the S&P 500 since Trian’s disclosure of its $2.5 billion, or nearly 1%, stake in October 2015; however, Garden has often asserted that GE has a solid path toward improving industrial free cash flow, and we expect that Trian’s board-level involvement will influence new CEO John Flannery to rema...General Electric is a technology industrial company. The company's segments include: Power, which serves power generation, industrial, government and other customers with products and services related to energy production; Renewable Energy, which engineers and manufactures energy equipment and projects, grid solutions and digital services; Aviation, which designs and produces commercial and military aircraft engines, digital components, electric power and mechanical aircraft systems; Healthcare, which provides healthcare technologies; and Capital, which provides financial products and services that build on the company's industry capabilities in aviation, power, renewables, healthcare and other activities.
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