GE Historical PE Ratio Notes

— GE Aerospace (ticker: GE) is a leading global provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial & military aircraft. Following its 2024 spin-off of GE Vernova (energy business), GE Aerospace has focused exclusively on aerospace technologies, positioning itself as a pure-play aerospace company. Its business is driven by long-term contracts with major airlines, defense departments, and aircraft manufacturers, and its revenue is derived from both the sale of new engines & recurring aftermarket services (such as maintenance & repairs). This mix of high initial sales and stable, ongoing service revenue has important implications for GE's historical price-to-earnings (PE) ratio. During periods when the commercial aviation cycle is strong, the market often assigns a premium PE ratio reflecting anticipated earnings growth. Conversely, in downturns (such as during the COVID-19 pandemic), earnings may fall sharply or turn negative, causing extremely high or even undefined PE ratios. As you review historical charts and tables, consider how events like major aircraft launches, global economic cycles, and industry disruptions have influenced both underlying earnings and investor sentiment, shaping how the stock market has valued GE over time.

On this page we presented the GE Aero Historical PE Ratio information for GE Aero' stock. The average GE historical PE based on using the annualized quarterly earnings result at each measurement period (for the "E" in the PE calculation; and the closing price on earnings date as the "P") is 21.6. Meanwhile, using the trailing twelve month (TTM) quarterly earnings result as our method of calculation the "E" value at each measurement period, the average GE historical PE based on this TTM earnings result method is 30.9. Note: any PE calculations involving negative earnings were discarded as not meaningful.

Let's now compare this GE historical PE result, against the recent PE: when this page was posted on 5/15/2026, the most recent closing price for GE had been 281.53, and the most recent quarterly earnings result, annualized, was 7.44. Meanwhile, the most recent TTM earnings summed to 6.75. From these numbers, we calculate the recent GE PE on 5/15/2026 based on annualized quarterly EPS was 37.8. Based on GE's history, that recent PE is elevated relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 75.0% higher than the historical average PE across our data set for GE Aero. Looking at the recent GE PE on 5/15/2026 based on TTM EPS, we calculate the ratio at 41.7. Based on GE's history, that recent PE is elevated relative to the historical average, with the recent PE 35.0% higher than the historical average PE across our GE Aero data set with TTM EPS used in the calculation at each period.

Another interesting GE historical PE Ratio calculation we look at is to take the median earnings per share of the last four quarters for GE, and then annualize the resulting value... with that annualized number then being used in the PE calculation. To walk through this math for GE, we start with the past four EPS numbers and we first sort them from lowest to highest: 1.57, 1.66, 1.66, and 1.86. We then toss out the highest and lowest result, and then take the average of those two middle numbers — 1.66 and 1.66 — which gives us the median of 1.66. Basically the way to think about this 1.66 number is this: for the trailing four earnings reports, 1.66 marks the "middle ground" number where GE has reported a value higher than 1.66 half the time, and has reported a value lower than 1.66 half the time. Annualizing that median value then gets us to 6.64/share, which we use as the denominator in our next PE calculation. With 281.53 as the numerator (as of 5/15/2026), the calculation is then 281.53 / 6.64 = 42.4 as the GE PE ratio as of 5/15/2026, based on that annualized median value we calculated.

For self directed investors doing their due diligence on GE or any other given stock, valuation analysis for GE can greatly benefit from studying the past earnings and resulting PE calculations. This exercise can help inform an analysis as to whether the past earnings trajectory and current versus historical PE ratios justify the current stock value.

That's why we bring you HistoricalPERatio.com to make it easy for investors to investigate GE Aero PE history or the past PE information for any stock in our coverage universe. And in your continued research we hope you will be sure to check out the further links included for earnings surprises history (beat/miss data) as well as next earnings dates for GE. Thanks for visiting, and the next time you need to research GE Historical PE Ratio or the ratio for another stock, we hope you'll think of our site, as your go-to historical PE ratio research resource of choice.