Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
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Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
General Electric (GE) Reverse Split
Rate: 1 for 8
Your Vanguard Brokerage Account is showing an inflated balance while we process a reverse split on the above security. The balance(s) will display correctly tomorrow. Cost basis information will be updated within 2 business days. No action is needed by you as this is a mandatory event.
*A reverse stock split increases the price per share of a security and decreases the number of shares with fractional shares paid in cash. For example, if you own 100 shares of GE stock trading at $13 a share and the company decides to do a 1 for 8 reverse split, you will now own 12 shares trading at $104 with 0.5 shares paid in cash. The value of your investment remains the same.
Broken Man 1999
Rate: 1 for 8
Your Vanguard Brokerage Account is showing an inflated balance while we process a reverse split on the above security. The balance(s) will display correctly tomorrow. Cost basis information will be updated within 2 business days. No action is needed by you as this is a mandatory event.
*A reverse stock split increases the price per share of a security and decreases the number of shares with fractional shares paid in cash. For example, if you own 100 shares of GE stock trading at $13 a share and the company decides to do a 1 for 8 reverse split, you will now own 12 shares trading at $104 with 0.5 shares paid in cash. The value of your investment remains the same.
Broken Man 1999
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners....
How to boost share price in a dying company... Sad.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners....
I was thinking the samething!
"I started with nothing and I still have most of it left."
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
This thread is now in the Investing - Theory, News & General forum (news). I also clarified the thread title.
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
I saw the same message in my brokerage account this morning.
My first thought was that I would wind up receiving fractional shares as cash. That typically results in extra work at tax time with entries on Schedule D.
I really lucked out this time. My 960 shares will reverse split to exactly 120 shares.
My first thought was that I would wind up receiving fractional shares as cash. That typically results in extra work at tax time with entries on Schedule D.
I really lucked out this time. My 960 shares will reverse split to exactly 120 shares.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
That was actually on the news yesterday because many feeds were showing a 700% gain in GE and causing quite a bit of confusion.
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
Is the cash in lieu of fractional shares a taxable event? Seems like it should be. So I looked at my distribution payouts on vanguard and there's one that's all zeros for GE. Suspicious. I guess they'll sort it out eventually. Not like it matters much given the tiny amount.
Sadly, this is one of the cats and dogs I held onto from a little dividend portfolio I've been dismantling slowly over time. At least there's a capital loss I can use some day.
Sadly, this is one of the cats and dogs I held onto from a little dividend portfolio I've been dismantling slowly over time. At least there's a capital loss I can use some day.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
Not everyone sees GE as a dying company. A previously poorly managed company, prone to collecting other companies, yes!
--BofA Securities Adjusts General Electric's Price Target to $128 from $120, Keeps Buy Rating
08/02/2021 10:08 a.m.
-Wolfe Research Adjusts General Electric's Price Target to $138 From $136, Keeps Outperform Rating
08/02/2021 09:01 a.m.
--RBC Adjusts Price Target on General Electric to $123 From $16 After 1-for-8 Reverse Stock Split; Outperform Maintained
08/02/2021 08:47 a.m.
Time will tell.
Broken Man 1999
--BofA Securities Adjusts General Electric's Price Target to $128 from $120, Keeps Buy Rating
08/02/2021 10:08 a.m.
-Wolfe Research Adjusts General Electric's Price Target to $138 From $136, Keeps Outperform Rating
08/02/2021 09:01 a.m.
--RBC Adjusts Price Target on General Electric to $123 From $16 After 1-for-8 Reverse Stock Split; Outperform Maintained
08/02/2021 08:47 a.m.
Time will tell.
Broken Man 1999
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
Look in your settlement account.kudzu wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:49 am Is the cash in lieu of fractional shares a taxable event? Seems like it should be. So I looked at my distribution payouts on vanguard and there's one that's all zeros for GE. Suspicious. I guess they'll sort it out eventually. Not like it matters much given the tiny amount.
Sadly, this is one of the cats and dogs I held onto from a little dividend portfolio I've been dismantling slowly over time. At least there's a capital loss I can use some day.
Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (Settlement fund) $5.32
You should also see this if you click on your holding:
08/02/2021-Corp Action (Cash in Lieu)-$5.32
Mine checks out, gotta see what I can do with that $5.32!
I don't have capital losses, besides, mine is in my TIRA.
Broken Man 1999
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
Well, it dropped by a lot more than those price targets! I was too complacent to get out when I should have. That's not saying that mgmt. isn't making the hard decisions to streamline the company, now. Its evident they are.Broken Man 1999 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:22 am Not everyone sees GE as a dying company. A previously poorly managed company, prone to collecting other companies, yes!
--BofA Securities Adjusts General Electric's Price Target to $128 from $120, Keeps Buy Rating
08/02/2021 10:08 a.m.
-Wolfe Research Adjusts General Electric's Price Target to $138 From $136, Keeps Outperform Rating
08/02/2021 09:01 a.m.
--RBC Adjusts Price Target on General Electric to $123 From $16 After 1-for-8 Reverse Stock Split; Outperform Maintained
08/02/2021 08:47 a.m.
Time will tell.
Broken Man 1999
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
Oh, I did get the corp action cash. I'm just wondering what tax lot the cash applies to or if this is even supposed to be taxable in the first place.Broken Man 1999 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:34 amLook in your settlement account.kudzu wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:49 am Is the cash in lieu of fractional shares a taxable event? Seems like it should be. So I looked at my distribution payouts on vanguard and there's one that's all zeros for GE. Suspicious. I guess they'll sort it out eventually. Not like it matters much given the tiny amount.
Sadly, this is one of the cats and dogs I held onto from a little dividend portfolio I've been dismantling slowly over time. At least there's a capital loss I can use some day.
Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (Settlement fund) $5.32
You should also see this if you click on your holding:
08/02/2021-Corp Action (Cash in Lieu)-$5.32
Mine checks out, gotta see what I can do with that $5.32!
I don't have capital losses, besides, mine is in my TIRA.
Broken Man 1999
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
This is one of my holdings in my little fun account where I pick my own stocks. I started buying GE in 2019, and bought more in March last year. This is the type of stock I like, one that everybody hates. So far it's up 52% for me.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
Now that Immelt and Bornstein are gone from GE leadership, GE has a good chance to rebound over time.
Those two clowns couldn't manage a canoe let alone a MegaCorp.
Those two clowns couldn't manage a canoe let alone a MegaCorp.
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
I don't know if the extra fractional share is taxable or what. My extra 1/2 share just disappeared.
And I am not going to worry about it.
But I still have 2 shares of WABEC from a previous GE spinoff.
And I am not going to worry about it.
But I still have 2 shares of WABEC from a previous GE spinoff.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
who owns/owned it & got out of their position or is planning to get out?
Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
I have had fractional shares sold and paid in cash a number of times and it has always been a taxable event. That assumes that there was a capital gain or capital loss.
It does make sense for taxable accounts. If a sale of those same shares was taxable the day before the reverse split, the shares should be taxable the following day.
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I sold all of my GE stock five years ago next month at $30/share ($210 post reverse-split). I had held it for decades. It was a third of my portfolio so my timing was fortuitous to say the least! I redeployed the proceeds into index funds and rode the wave higher while GE sank! I haven’t always been this lucky.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
The sale of the fractional shares has been my experience also. But it looks like that didn't happen here. Maybe they just adjusted the cost basis of the new shares to make the correction.Electron wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:48 pmI have had fractional shares sold and paid in cash a number of times and it has always been a taxable event. That assumes that there was a capital gain or capital loss.
It does make sense for taxable accounts. If a sale of those same shares was taxable the day before the reverse split, the shares should be taxable the following day.
But maybe that would be a broker thing not a GE thing.
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Re: Heads up for GE stock owners.... [Reverse stock split]
I've had fractional shares show up in the current year realized capital gains and losses section. To check any changes in cost basis you may need to find the basis prior to the transaction.
The Wabtec spin-off was an interesting case with the 2019 Form 1099-DIV reporting the Wabtec shares as a taxable qualified dividend. My brokerage account at the time showed the transaction as a stock split. There was no indication in the account or statements for the remainder of the year that the spin-off was a taxable dividend. I eventually found that information online but had to wait for the 1099-DIV for final confirmation.
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