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What this page is: Delvantic's full research page for GE Vernova Inc. (GEV) — AI-driven forensic equity research: mechanical valuation models (DCF, EPV, anchored-PE, scenario) plus three independent AI lenses (Quality / Value / Sentiment). Everything below is rendered server-side; you are not missing content that requires JavaScript. All scores are predictions and research opinions, not financial advice.

Our current read (analysis of 2026-08-23): Designation Low · Gem Score -22 (−100…+100 Quality+Value blend) · Quality 51 · Value -82 · Sentiment 47 (timing only, not weighted) · Composite fair value $437.99 vs $990.29 at analysis

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GE Vernova Inc.

GEV NYSE
Industrials · Specialty Industrial Machinery
Cambridge, MA 02141, United States gevernova.com Updated Aug 1, 4:38pm
Price
$990.29
Market Cap
$263.7B
Employees
78,000
Beta
0.94
Avg Volume
3,101,400
Last Dividend
$1.75
CEO
Mr. Scott L. Strazik

GE Vernova Inc. is an energy technology and services company specializing in products and systems that generate, transfer, orchestrate, convert, and store electricity across global power markets. The company operates through three primary segments: Power, Wind, and Electrification. The Power segment designs, manufactures, and services gas, nuclear, hydro, and steam technologies, supplying dispatchable power solutions to industrial, government, and other institutional customers. The Wind segment provides onshore and offshore wind turbines and blades, supporting utility-scale renewable power generation. The Electrification segment delivers grid solutions, power conversion equipment, electrification software, and solar and storage technologies that enable efficient transmission, distribution, conversion, storage, and orchestration of electricity from generation to end use. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and incorporated in 2023, GE Vernova Inc. plays a central role in modern power infrastructure by serving utilities and large energy users across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Runs with full report Generated: Aug 2, 2026 12:13am
Price Overview
Price at report time
$990.29
as of Aug 2, 12:18am (21d ago)
Change · Aug 2
+8.31 (+0.85%)
Day Range
$979.14 – $1,042.85
52-Week Range
$530.16 – $1,195.94
50-Day MA
$1,024.82
200-Day MA
$836.50
Volume
2,355,400.00
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Share Structure
Outstanding 266,333,581.00
Float 265,784,934.00
Free Float 99.8%
High free float — 99.8% of shares trade freely, ~0.2% held by insiders/institutions
Very liquid — most shares trade freely. Low insider ownership can mean less management alignment, but makes large position sizing straightforward.
Price History (1 Year)
Last updated: Aug 2, 2026 12:21am (21d ago)
Revenue & Net Income Trend
The directional story — useful even when net income is negative.
Last updated: Jul 31, 2026 5:38am (23d ago)
Revenue
The top line — total sales before any costs or taxes are subtracted. A measure of how much business the company is doing.
Net Income
The bottom line — profit left after subtracting all expenses, interest, and taxes from revenue. Reflects accounting profitability, but includes non-cash items like depreciation, so it isn't the same as cash earned.
Operating Cash Flow
The real cash generated by the day-to-day business — selling products, paying suppliers, collecting from customers. Calculated from net income by adding back non-cash items and adjusting for timing (unpaid bills, unsold inventory). When OCF consistently lags net income, the reported profit may not be converting to real money.
Period Revenue Net Income Net Margin YoY/QoQ
Key Metrics
TD Twelve Data statement HEX SEC filing
Industry comparison last run: Aug 2, 2026 12:09am
P/E Ratio (Price per dollar of earnings)
HEX
Stock Price / EPS (Diluted)
55.98
Stock Price: $990.29
EPS (Diluted): 17.69
P/B Ratio (Price vs net asset value)
HEX
Stock Price / Book Value Per Share
22.23
Stock Price: $990.29
Total Equity: $12.30B
Shares: 276,000,000
EV/EBITDA (Total value vs operating profit)
HEX
Enterprise Value / EBITDA
130.09
Market Cap: $263.75B
Total Debt: $63.00M
Cash: $8.85B
EBITDA: $2.00B
Enterprise Value (Takeover price (cap + debt - cash))
HEX
Market Cap + Total Debt - Cash
$260.6B
Market Cap: $263.75B
Total Debt: $63.00M
Cash: $8.85B
Gross Margin (Revenue left after direct costs)
HEX
Gross Profit / Revenue
19.8%
Gross Profit: $7.54B
Revenue: $38.07B
Operating Margin (Revenue left after all operations)
HEX
Operating Income / Revenue
3.6%
Operating Income: $1.39B
Revenue: $38.07B
Net Margin (Revenue left as actual profit)
HEX
Net Income / Revenue
12.8%
Net Income: $4.88B
Revenue: $38.07B
ROE (Profit from shareholder equity)
HEX
Net Income / Total Equity
39.7%
Net Income: $4.88B
Total Equity: $12.30B
ROIC (Profit from all invested capital)
HEX
NOPAT / Invested Capital
68.2%
Operating Income: $1.39B
Tax Rate: -72.5%
Equity: $12.30B
Total Debt: $63.00M
Cash: $8.85B
Current Ratio (Can it pay short-term bills)
HEX
Current Assets / Current Liabilities
0.98
Current Assets: $40.22B
Current Liabilities: $40.97B
Debt/Equity (Leverage — debt vs equity)
HEX
Total Debt / Total Equity
0.01
Short-Term Debt: $63.00M
Long-Term Debt: $0.00
Total Debt: $63.00M
Total Equity: $12.30B
Rev/Share (Top-line per share)
HEX
Revenue / Shares Outstanding
$137.93
Revenue: $38.07B
Shares: 276,000,000
Book Value/Share (Net assets per share)
HEX
(Total Assets - Total Liabilities) / Shares
$44.55
Total Equity: $12.30B
Shares: 276,000,000
FCF/Share (Real cash generated per share)
HEX
(Operating Cash Flow + CapEx) / Shares
$13.44
Operating CF: $4.99B
CapEx: -$1.28B
Shares: 276,000,000
CapEx is negative (outflow) — added to OCF to get FCF
Div Yield (Annual income from holding)
TD
Last Annual Dividend / Stock Price
0.2%
Last Dividend: $1.75
Stock Price: $990.29
Payout Ratio (Earnings paid out as dividends)
HEX
Dividends Paid / Net Income
5.6%
Dividends Paid: -$275.00M
Net Income: $4.88B
Industry Benchmarks
Last run: Aug 2, 2026 12:09am
Compares GEV against LLM-researched typical ranges for its industry. One research call per industry, cached indefinitely — every stock in the same industry reuses the same baseline.
Income Statement (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 31, 2026 5:38am (23d ago)
Metric 2022 2023 2024 2025
Revenue $29.7B $33.2B $34.9B $38.1B
Cost of Revenue $26.2B $28.4B $28.9B $30.5B
Gross Profit $3.5B $4.8B $6.1B $7.5B
Operating Expenses $6.3B $5.7B $5.6B $6.1B
Operating Income -$2.9B -$923.0M $471.0M $1.4B
Net Income -$2.7B -$438.0M $1.6B $4.9B
EBITDA -$2.1B -$199.0M $1.4B $2.0B
EPS $-10.00 $-1.60 $5.65 $17.92
EPS (Diluted) $-10.00 $-1.60 $5.58 $17.69
Balance Sheet (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 31, 2026 9:11am (23d ago)
Metric 2022 2023 2024 2024 2025
Cash & Equivalents $2.1B $1.6B $4.2B $8.2B $8.8B
Total Current Assets $27.4B $34.2B $40.2B
Total Assets $46.1B $51.5B $63.0B
Current Liabilities $29.3B $31.7B $41.0B
Long-Term Debt
Total Liabilities $37.7B $40.9B $50.7B
Total Equity $11.6B $8.4B $10.6B $12.3B
Retained Earnings $0 $1.6B $6.2B
Cash Flow (Annual)
Last updated: Jul 31, 2026 5:38am (23d ago)
Metric 2022 2023 2024 2025
Operating Cash Flow -$114.0M $1.2B $2.6B $5.0B
Capital Expenditure -$513.0M -$744.0M -$883.0M -$1.3B
Free Cash Flow -$627.0M $442.0M $1.7B $3.7B
Acquisitions (net)
Net Debt Issued / (Repaid)
Dividends Paid $0 $0 -$275.0M
Stock Buybacks $0 -$43.0M -$3.3B
Net Change in Cash $288.0M $66.0M $6.1B $644.0M
Growth Trends (YoY %)
Last updated: Jul 31, 2026 5:38am (23d ago)
Metric 2023 2024 2025
Revenue Growth +12.1% +5.1% +9.0%
Gross Profit Growth +39.3% +26.3% +23.8%
Operating Income Growth +68.0% +151.0% +194.7%
Net Income Growth +84.0% +454.3% +214.7%
EBITDA Growth +90.5% +786.4% +46.6%
Dividend History (Last 20)
Last updated: Jul 31, 2026 9:11am (23d ago)
Date Dividend Declaration Record Payment
2026-06-16 $0.50
2026-03-17 $0.50
2026-01-05 $0.50
2025-10-20 $0.25
2025-07-21 $0.25
2025-04-17 $0.25
2024-12-20 $0.25
0Company Classification 1Industry Landscape 2Company Momentum 3Forward Projection 4aDCF Valuation 4bEarnings Power Value 4cAnchored PE 4dReverse DCF 4eRevenue-Based DCF 4fAnchored P/S 4gScenario Analysis 4hDividend Discount Model 4iBook Value Analysis 4jInsider Activity 4fCash Flow Quality 4gDebt Maturity Risk 4hMacro Environment 4iSector Intelligence 4jRevenue Confidence 4kSensitivity Analysis 4lSector Demand Cycle 5AI Investigation 5bThesis Evaluation 6Valuation Synthesis
computed not applicable not yet run 17 computed · 6 not applicable · 1 not yet run
Risk : Reward — if the last quarter repeats
Live · as of 2026-08-19 08:54
-0.4 : 1 recovery upside vs repeat-quarter downside
Even the bull case prices 29% below today — the ratio here measures the model-vs-market gap, not payoff odds. Another quarter like the worst recent one costs 66%.
CaseGrowthMarginFair valuevs price ($990.29)
Bull — recovery +24% 26.5% $706.78 -29%
Base — stabilizes +16% 23.0% $494.07 -50%
Bear — keeps slipping +8% 19.6% $336.96 -66%
Stress — last quarter repeats +4% 22.5% $334.33 -66%
The next quarters keep the trajectory of the worst recent matched quarter (ending 2025-12-31) — growth stays at 3.8% and margins bend by the same profit-vs-revenue ratio (×0.98). Stress is a trajectory, not a prediction — it answers "what if the ship's current heading simply continues," which history says is the case to respect.
Why this is appearing: this company files quarterly, so its recent trajectory could be measured rather than assumed — the engine matched Jun 2026, Mar 2026 against the same quarters one year earlier and found revenue +19.2% · operating income +97.6% · net income +604.8% year-over-year. That measured heading is what the stress case extends forward. Of those, the stress case extends the worst matched quarter — the one ending Dec 31, 2025 (revenue +3.8%, operating income +1.5% YoY) — not the average. Data measured through Jun 30, 2026 — this card recalculates automatically when the next quarterly filing is ingested. Companies without quarterly filings (many foreign listings) never show this card: with no measured trajectory, there is nothing honest to repeat.
Narrative Economics
The story the market is telling about this stock — the intangible X-factor (founder mythology, cult dynamics, TAM-of-imagination) that moves price beyond what cash flows alone explain. After Shiller, Narrative Economics.
No narrative profile yet for GEV — it's generated by the pipeline (market-narrative step).
Claude Reading
Independent analyst synthesis · claude-opus-4-7 · generated 2026-08-02 00:20:37
Verdict Overvalued — fair value $450-575 based on normalized 10-12% operating margins, not the synthesis's $242; wait for gas turbine booking deceleration or a broken quarter before revisiting, no position warranted at $990.

The raw numbers tell a specific story that the synthesis is partially misreading. GEV's TTM revenue is roughly $41.4B (Q3'25 through Q2'26), growing ~9% YoY, with genuinely improving operating leverage — gross margin went from 14.5% in 2023 to 19.8% in 2025. But the reported net income is deeply misleading: Q1'26 shows $4.75B net income on $9.34B revenue (50.8% margin), and Q4'25 shows $3.66B on $10.96B (33.4%). These are not operating results — almost certainly deferred tax asset releases, divestiture gains, or mark-to-market items on the insurance/legacy book. Strip those out and the underlying quarterly net margin is running 4-6%, consistent with Q2'26's normalized 6% and the FY2025 operating margin of just 3.65%. The $4.88B annual NI producing a 55x P/E is arithmetically real but economically fictitious; on ~$1.4B of true operating income against a $263B market cap, this is closer to 180x normalized operating earnings. The 130x EV/EBITDA anomaly flag is directionally right but understates the issue.

The synthesis DCF pinning fair value at $234 is almost certainly too harsh, but its directional call is correct. GEV has ~$8.85B cash, negligible debt ($63M), and $3.71B FCF — a genuine fortress balance sheet post-spin. The backlog dynamics in gas turbines and grid equipment are real; lead times for large power transformers and HDGT frames are now 3-5 years, which gives GEV pricing power the DCF likely doesn't capture. A more defensible fair value probably sits in the $400-550 range assuming operating margins expand to 10-12% by 2028 (from 3.65%) and revenue compounds at 8-10%. That still implies the stock is roughly 2x overvalued, not 4x. The narrative model's "75% narrative premium" framing is the right shape even if the anchor is off.

The contrarian case worth taking seriously: this isn't a normal industrial cycle — it's a structural capex supercycle in electrification driven by AI datacenter load growth (unprecedented and non-cyclical over 5-7 years), coal-to-gas transition, and grid replacement. If gas turbine ASPs are re-rating 30-50% as capacity is sold out through 2028, and if services attach rates on the installed base compound at high-teens margins, GEV's steady-state operating margin could plausibly reach 15%+ rather than the 10-12% I'd model. Siemens Energy trades at ~35x forward earnings on similar tailwinds; the peer set has re-rated collectively. That said, quarterly revenue is decelerating (Q2'26 $11.1B was strong but Q1'26 was $9.34B, and the sequential trajectory since Q4'24's $10.56B → Q1'25's $8.03B shows the seasonality is severe), and the "sold out capacity" thesis is exactly what always precedes cyclical peaks in heavy industrial equipment. I've seen this movie in 2007-2008 with GE Power itself.

I partially agree with the synthesis: overvalued, yes, but the $234 fair value is model-brittle and will make readers dismiss the call. The pre-flight intelligence correctly identifies this as traditional-industrial-being-priced-as-secular-growth, and the narrative layer's "fragile durability" call is the sharpest read in the file — the story unwinds the moment gas turbine bookings show any sequential weakness or a competitor (Mitsubishi Power, Siemens Energy) takes a marquee hyperscaler contract. Weak FCF Quality flag deserves attention: $3.71B FCF against $4.88B NI is fine on the surface, but the massive customer advance payments funding working capital are what's driving reported cash flow — if orders soften, cash flow deteriorates faster than earnings. Insider activity isn't disclosed here but at these multiples with a fresh spin, I'd expect heavy selling; that absence in the data file is a gap. My verdict: overvalued with a fair value band of $450-575, not $242, but the direction and magnitude of the mispricing is real. Don't short (narrative stocks can double before they halve), but don't own at $990.

GPT Reading
Independent reading · gpt-5.4 · generated 2026-08-02 00:20:52
Verdict Overvalued at $990 — the balance sheet and growth are real, but the market is capitalizing transitory net-income spikes and a 3.7% operating-margin business as if double-digit margins are already locked in; fair value is materially lower, closer to $450-$550.

At nearly $264B of market value on $38.1B of 2025 revenue, GE Vernova is being valued less like an industrial and more like a scarce strategic asset, and the raw numbers do not yet support that leap. The company has undeniably improved: revenue rose from $29.7B in 2022 to $34.9B in 2024 and $38.1B in 2025, gross profit expanded from $3.46B to $7.54B over that span, operating income swung from a $2.88B loss in 2022 to a $1.39B profit in 2025, and free cash flow reached $3.71B. The balance sheet is excellent, with just $63M of debt against $8.85B of cash. But the valuation is asking investors to pay 7.2x sales, 56x earnings, 22x book, and an effectively unusable 130x EV/EBITDA because EBITDA is still too thin relative to enterprise value. For a business whose 2025 operating margin was only 3.7% and gross margin 19.8%, that is extreme.

The biggest tell in the data is that headline earnings are flattering the underlying operating economics. Annual net income of $4.88B in 2025 sits far above operating income of $1.39B, and the quarterly pattern is even more revealing: March 2026 posted $4.75B of net income on $9.34B of revenue, a 50.8% net margin, after December 2025 showed 33.4%. Those are not normal industrial earnings prints; they look like one-time tax, separation, or other below-the-line benefits rather than evidence that the core business suddenly became software-like. If I normalize around the quarters without obvious noise, I see a company earning roughly 3% to 6% net margins in most periods: 3.2% in 1Q25, 5.6% in 2Q25, 4.5% in 3Q25, 4.6% in 4Q24, and 6.0% in 2Q26. On that basis, the market is capitalizing a modestly profitable cyclical equipment-and-services business as if double-digit clean industrial margins are already durable.

Even the good news needs framing. Recent growth is solid but not valuation-clearing: 2Q26 revenue of $11.10B was up about 22% from $9.11B a year earlier, while annual revenue growth from 2024 to 2025 was 9%. That is healthy, especially for a company coming out of restructuring, but not the kind of sustained 20%+ compound growth that can brute-force a near-$1T share price. Cash generation is also less pristine than the headline FCF suggests. $4.99B of operating cash flow versus $4.88B of net income looks fine superficially, but when net income is inflated by unusual items, “cash conversion” can mislead; the more relevant anchor is $3.71B of free cash flow against a $264B equity value, a roughly 1.4% FCF yield. That is venture-style valuation on industrial cash flow. If the bull case is that GE Vernova will become the indispensable picks-and-shovels winner of grid buildout, power equipment, and electrification, then I need to see that in sustained operating margin expansion first, not in episodic net income spikes.

The best case against my view is straightforward: this may be the rare industrial where backward-looking margins are the wrong metric because the installed base, service mix, and grid capex cycle are inflecting all at once. Revenue has compounded upward, profitability has moved from deeply negative in 2022 to clearly positive, ROE screens at 39.7% and ROIC at 68.2%, and the fortress balance sheet means the company can fund growth without financial strain. If power demand from data centers, grid reinforcement, and energy security spending drives a multi-year order supercycle, today’s 3% to 6% operating-like earnings power could be a trough, not a norm. On that view, paying up for a category leader before margins fully show up is rational. I weigh that less heavily because the same dataset shows a current ratio below 1, still-thin operating profitability, and valuation multiples that already discount not just improvement but near-flawless execution. When a company on 3.7% operating margin is priced like a compounder with structural 15%-plus margins, the burden of proof is very high.

What would change my mind is simple: two to three consecutive quarters where the weird below-the-line noise disappears and core profitability does the work. If GE Vernova can sustain quarterly revenue above $11B while delivering at least 8% to 10% operating margin and free cash flow that annualizes comfortably above $6B, the current premium would start to look more defensible. I would also revisit the stock positively on a major pullback; even with strong strategic positioning, a price closer to $500 would at least bring the sales multiple toward something industrial investors can underwrite. At $990, I think investors are paying for the end state before the income statement has actually arrived there.

Grok Reading
Independent reading · grok-4.5 · generated 2026-08-02 00:21:21
Verdict Overvalued by ~70%+ at $990; normalized earning power supports ~$250–350, not a $264B cap on 4% op. margins

The numbers tell a story of a successfully restructured industrial that the market has entirely unmoored from its cash-flow reality. GE Vernova grew revenue from $29.7B in 2022 to $38.1B in 2025 — a respectable ~7% CAGR — and flipped from a $2.7B net loss to $4.9B of reported net income while generating $3.7B of free cash flow against only $63M of debt and $8.9B of cash. That turnaround is real. What is not real is treating the 2025 P&L as normalized earning power. Operating income was only $1.39B (3.7% margin) on $7.5B of gross profit (19.8% gross margin); the jump to $4.88B of net income, and the absurd 50.8% and 33.4% net margins in the two most recent year-end/early-2026 quarters, are dominated by non-operating items. Strip those out and you have a mid-single-digit operating-margin machinery business growing high-single-digits, throwing off roughly $3.5–4B of FCF, sitting at a $264B enterprise value — call it 65–75× FCF and roughly 7× sales. That is not how specialty industrial machinery clears, full stop.

The quarterly progression reinforces the same point. Revenue is grinding higher — $8.0B → $9.1B → $10.0B → $11.0B → $9.3B → $11.1B on a trailing basis — but the “earnings” line is noise: –$96M, +$254M, +$514M, +$452M, then $3.66B and $4.75B. Anyone anchoring a 56× P/E or a 130× EV/EBITDA on those prints is valuing a one-time gain stack, not a franchise. ROE of 40% and ROIC of 68% are accounting artifacts of a thin equity base ($12.3B) and inflated net income; ROA is a more honest 7.8%. The balance sheet is fortress-quality and FCF conversion is clean, which is why the stock deserves a premium to old GE Power — just not a 4× premium to any defensible DCF.

The strongest case against this read is the energy-transition scarcity narrative: Vernova is the only scaled pure-play with dispatchable power, onshore/offshore wind, and grid electrification under one roof, pointing at a multi-trillion TAM where utilities and governments have little choice but to spend. If Electrification and services mix shift the company toward 15%+ revenue growth and mid-teens EBIT margins within three years, and if the market continues to award platform-monopoly multiples to anything touching grid modernization and AI power demand, then $990 can be rationalized as early-stage infrastructure compounder pricing rather than industrial pricing. Bulls will also note the 215% earnings “growth,” the 190% FCF CAGR off the trough, and the fact that every missed quarter so far has been forgiven because the backlog story remains intact. I weigh that differently because none of the margin expansion required to support the price is visible in the 3.7% operating margin or 20% gross margin today, competition from Vestas, Siemens Energy, and backward-integrating utilities is structural, and the narrative durability itself is labeled fragile — 75% of the valuation is story premium with no services/software recurring-revenue evidence yet.

What flips me is simple and numeric: two consecutive quarters of operating margin at or above 10% with revenue growth re-accelerating above 12% year-on-year, or explicit multi-year guidance that puts 2027–28 EBIT above $5B with FCF conversion holding. Absent that, a sustained break of the $3.5B+ annual FCF run-rate on volume, not one-timers, would force a re-rate higher. Until then the asymmetry is clearly lower.

Big-3 Panel — where each AI stands
Each AI above independently stated a direction (undervalued, fairly valued, or overvalued) and how strongly it believes it (conviction, 0–5). We combine those into a Bull-Bear Index on a 0–10 scale: 5 is neutral, 10 is maximum bullish (undervalued at full conviction), 0 is maximum bearish. We compute the score ourselves with the same arithmetic for every seat — the models never grade their own bullishness — so the three are directly comparable. Δ shows how far each seat sits from the panel average of 1.0; a large Δ marks the dissenting voice, usually the one worth reading.
Claude claude-opus-4-7 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ +0.0 vs panel · self: 3.0
GPT gpt-5.4 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ +0.0 vs panel · self: 2.0
Grok grok-4.5 1.0
overvalued · conviction 4/5 · Δ +0.0 vs panel · self: 2.0
Advanced Analysis Forensic deep-dive · separate lenses
Separate reads — Company Quality (is it a great business?), Valuation (is it mispriced?), and General Sentiment (how macro + narrative are pushing it), kept deliberately apart · 2026-08-02 00:36:30
Delvantic - Cairn AI
Pass - revisit on a broken quarter 8/10
Strong business, wildly wrong price - GEV is a $990 story stock trading at roughly 2-3x any defensible fair value, and I'm not paying up.
The cruxWhether the 3.6% operating margin ramps to mid-teens without a downcycle stumble - the entire $264B cap is a bet on that path being locked in, and it isn't.
Forensic checks Derived mechanically from GEV's filed financials — not from the AI lenses
Liquidity & RunwaySelf-Funding
DilutionStable Share Count
Earnings QualityGood Earnings Quality
The four lensesswitch a tab for its full read — score + evidence
Company Quality
+51
Strong
edge √Σ 136 · risk √Σ 80 · conf 7/10

The financial trajectory is the story: revenue up from $29.65B (2022) to $38.07B (2025), gross margin expanding from 11.7% to 19.8%, operating margin from -9.7% to +3.6%, and net income from -$2.74B to +$4.88B. FCF turned positive in 2023 ($442M) and reached $3.71B in 2025. That is a genuine operating-leverage inflection in a heavy-industrial franchise (grid, gas power, wind), not a cosmetic recovery. Balance sheet is a fortress for the sector: $8.85B liquid cash, $8.79B net cash, Altman Z 3.92 (safe), Beneish M -2.35 (no manipulation flag), and diluted share count essentially flat (0.2% CAGR from 274M to 276M) - dilution is not eroding per-share value. Two soft spots keep this out of the top tier. First, OCF/NI reported as 0x and accruals -2.6% of assets, plus a 'Weak Cash Flow Quality' tag, suggest 2025 net income ($4.88B) runs ahead of cash generation ($3.71B FCF) - likely tax/working-capital or one-time items inflating GAAP NI. Second, operating margin is still only 3.6% - the business is improving fast but is not yet structurally high-return; durability of the ramp through a full power/wind cycle is unproven given only ~3 years of standalone history.

Strengths 4
m78
Fortress net cash for a heavy industrial
$8.79B net cash against $3.71B annual FCF - the company can self-fund investment, weather a cycle, and has no solvency question. Altman Z 3.92 confirms safe zone.
m82
Genuine operating-leverage inflection
Gross margin expanded 810bps (11.7% to 19.8%) and operating margin swung 1,330bps (-9.7% to +3.6%) over four years on 28% revenue growth to $38.07B - real mix/pricing improvement, not just volume.
m60
Share count discipline
Diluted shares moved 274M to 276M over the period (0.2% CAGR); per-share value is not being leaked through SBC or issuance.
m45
Clean earnings-quality diagnostics
Beneish M -2.35 (well below manipulation threshold), negative accruals -2.6% of assets - no aggressive accrual build inflating the earnings ramp.
Concerns 3
m50
Net income outrunning cash
2025 NI $4.88B vs FCF $3.71B, and the module flags OCF/NI 0x with 'Weak Cash Flow Quality.' The gap is likely tax assets/working capital, but it means reported profitability overstates cash earnings power.
m55
Margins still thin, cycle unproven
Operating margin only 3.6% in 2025 - respectable for the industry but leaves little cushion. Only ~3 years of standalone history since the GE spin; durability through a gas/wind order downcycle is not yet demonstrated.
m30
Wind segment historically loss-making
The 2022-2023 losses were substantially wind-related; whether that segment is structurally fixed or merely benefiting from current pricing is not resolvable from these aggregates.
This looks like a real turnaround, not a cosmetic one - margins, cash flow, and net cash are all moving the right way together, and the share count is being defended. What holds me back from calling it Fortress is that operating margin is still only 3.6%, net income is visibly running ahead of cash, and we simply don't have enough standalone history to know how this business behaves when the power/wind order cycle turns. Strong is the honest label: healthy, improving, well-capitalized, but not yet proven elite.
Verify before trusting this (6)
  • Segment-level profitability: is Wind now positive or still subsidized by Power/Electrification?
  • Reconciliation of 2025 NI $4.88B vs FCF $3.71B - deferred tax release, pension, or working capital swings?
  • Order backlog composition and pricing/margin on gas turbine orders driving the ramp
  • Customer/geographic concentration in the grid electrification business
  • Any warranty or wind-blade remediation reserves and their trajectory
  • Pension and long-term service agreement accounting assumptions inherited from GE
Valuation / Mispricing
-82
Overvalued
edge √Σ 20 · risk √Σ 135 · conf 8/10
Price $990 vs deserved ~$300-$450 - roughly 55-70% overvalued even after crediting business quality. attractive below $450.00

Price is $990.29 against a composite fair value of $234.58 and a signal-adjusted FV of $242.58, implying roughly 76% downside on the blended math. Even the most generous input, an anchored P/E at $638.82, sits ~35% below the tape, while the DCF ($126.62) and EPV floor ($46.27) suggest the earnings base cannot remotely support today's cap. A $264B market cap on a business running 3.6% operating margins and net income that outruns cash means investors are paying today for margins, growth and durability that are still hypothetical. The Company-Quality lens rightly calls this Strong, and I will lift deserved value above the DCF for optionality on grid/electrification - but Strong is not Fortress, and there is no standalone track record through a downcycle. A fair deserved range of $300-$450 (giving generous credit to the anchored-PE and platform scarcity while discounting EPV as a runaway floor) still leaves the stock priced for perfection. The bear case - that heroic 15%+ growth and 30% margins are already in the price - is the honest read of the arithmetic. Margin of safety is negative; this is a quality tax, not a mispricing in your favor.

Cheap signals 1
m20
Scarcity value of integrated platform
Only integrated pure-play across dispatchable power, wind and grid - deserves a premium to peers, but a premium to fair value, not a 4x multiple of it.
Rich / priced-in 4
m82
Composite FV implies -76% downside
Signal-adjusted FV $242.58 vs price $990.29 - a gap this wide across three methods is not method noise, it is the market pricing a different business than the financials show.
m70
Even the generous anchor undershoots
Anchored P/E fair value $638.82 is the highest of three methods and still ~35% below the tape; the DCF at $126.62 and EPV floor at $46.27 anchor the low end.
m68
Margins do not yet support the cap
3.6% operating margin on a $264B market cap requires investors to underwrite a multi-year climb to mid-teens+ margins with no downcycle - that is the priced-in path.
m45
Net income running ahead of cash
Earnings-quality is fine but the lens flags earnings above cash conversion - a reason to trim, not lift, deserved multiples on the current print.
I cannot find the mispricing here - I would need this stock closer to $450 before quality alone justifies paying up, and closer to $300 before it is genuinely interesting. At $990 you are paying a full decade of flawless execution up front on a business with one year of standalone history and a 3.6% operating margin. Strong business, wrong price.
Verify before trusting this (4)
  • Multi-year segment margin bridge - is 10%+ segment margin actually in reach by 2026?
  • Backlog conversion pace and pricing on new gas/grid orders
  • Cash conversion trajectory - closing the gap between net income and FCF
  • Guidance for through-cycle margin floor, especially on wind
General Sentiment
+47
Tailwind
tail √Σ 118 · head √Σ 67 · conf 6/10

The dominant force on GEV is a high-intensity platform-monopoly narrative tying it to two of the market's favorite stories: AI power demand and the energy transition. That narrative is doing enormous work at a $990 price against a fundamentals-implied fair value near $242 - the tape is paying for a story, not a DCF. Cult coefficient is high, news flow reinforces the AI-power framing, and the $176B backlog headline gives bulls a tangible anchor. That is a real tailwind on this specific name regardless of valuation reasonableness.

Tailwinds 4
m78
AI-power narrative attachment
GEV is being underwritten as a direct AI-infrastructure derivative (dispatchable power + grid). News flow explicitly frames it as an AI play, which is the single most durable bid in this tape.
m60
Platform-monopoly cult status
Strong-intensity, high-cult narrative as the only integrated pure-play energy-transition name. That structurally suppresses selling pressure on dips and attracts thematic flows.
m55
Backlog headline as story-armor
$176B backlog is a concrete number bulls can point to when the stock wobbles, blunting bear attacks even when the print disappoints.
m35
Neutral-to-constructive tape
VIX 16, S&P near highs, regime scored mildly risk-on. That environment tolerates and rewards thematic winners like GEV.
Headwinds 3
m45
Post-earnings priced-for-perfection sell
Wall Street sold a strong print because expectations were maximal - a classic sign the narrative is stretched and vulnerable to any execution slip.
m40
Fragile narrative durability
Narrative is tagged fragile: a spin with no independent execution track record and stiff competition. One bad quarter or margin miss could crack the story rather than just dent it.
m30
Macro backdrop mildly hostile to premium multiples
10y at 4.68% and market PE 26.2 pressure long-duration story stocks. Beta 0.94 means GEV moves with the tape, so any risk-off flare hits harder on a name trading at story multiples.
Net tailwind, but not a strong one. GEV is riding one of the market's most powerful active narratives - AI power plus energy transition wrapped in a platform-monopoly cult - and that pressure is pushing the stock well above any fundamentals-based anchor. The recent 'sold on a great print' action is the tell that the narrative is doing the heavy lifting and expectations are maxed. I lean tailwind because the story is intact and the tape is friendly, but the fragile durability tag and priced-for-perfection setup mean this can flip fast on a single stumble. Sentiment is a friend here, not a fortress.
Verify before trusting this (5)
  • Whether the post-earnings selloff extends or gets bought - a failed bounce would signal narrative fatigue
  • Analyst target revisions after the recent print - cuts would be the first crack
  • AI-power theme breadth (peers like VST, CEG, NRG) - if the cohort rolls over, GEV follows
  • Any margin or execution stumble that lets bears reframe the spin story
  • Rates trajectory - a move above 4.8-5% on the 10y pressures the multiple directly
The market-wide tape + this name's exposure to it (beta / sector / narrative durability). Context on the non-fundamental pressure — not a call on the business or the price. processId: detail-general-sentiment
Growth Outlook
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The forward growth verdict — is the business itself likely to grow (next 2 quarters / year 1 / years 2–3), judged against its category and against printed expectations. The full horizon ladder + creme renders on the Growth Outlook card above. Not a call on the price (Valuation owns that) or the tape (Sentiment owns that).
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Price Prediction
Lower -12.1% v0.6.0 View full prediction →

When we made this prediction on Aug 2, 2026, GEV was $990.29. We expect it to be $870.00 by Feb 2027, and we consider it great value under $450.00. This is an early model (v0.6.0) — the direction is more reliable than the exact price. Made Aug 2, 2026.

Price when predicted$990.29
Our estimate for Feb 2027$870.00-12.1%
Great value below$450.00
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Blue is our prediction, starting the day we made it. Grey is a slower route to the same place — the same destination, taking longer. Black is the actual price, so you can see how we are doing.

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