Will General Electric Maintain Current Dividend Levels in 2018?
General Electric (GE) announced that in 4Q17 it didn’t receive a dividend from GE Capital. In the words of Jamie Miller, GE’s chief financial officer and senior vice president, during the 4Q17 earnings call, “We did not receive a dividend from GE Capital in the quarter and this is in line with our prior communications. FCF (free cash flow) is calculated by subtracting capex from a company’s operating cash flows.