What the Market Missed From General Electric's Q2 Earnings

I feel the pain of General Electric (NYSE: GE) shareholders right now (because I am one). The industrial conglomerate has seen its stock price drop by more than 60% over the last five years, even as the S&P 500 has chalked up a nearly 50% gain. 

GE's Q2 report was definitely a mixed bag, but that's at least a step up from the terrible earnings reports it was churning out in 2018. So the market's reaction -- shares are down 11.4% since the announcement -- seems unusually harsh. Here's what investors are missing from GE's earnings report. 

General Electric's top division, aviation, suffered in Q2. Image source: Getty Images.

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