Why General Electric Stock Dropped, Then Bounced Back, on Friday

Friday capped a topsy-turvy week for General Electric (NYSE: GE) stock, as a topsy-turvy last day of the week. After GE reported earnings early in the day, its stock quickly plummeted 6.3% in value -- then rebounded to actually end the day with a small gain of 1.1%. The question is: Why?

I get why GE stock went down. But then how did it go back up? Image source: Getty Images.

Why GE stock dropped early in the day is no great mystery: Earnings were a disaster. Heading into the third-quarter report, analysts were expecting General Electric to report profits of $0.49 per diluted share. In actual fact, all it was able to come up with was $0.29 per share.

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