R&D expense · 2011–2025

General Electric R&D expense

$1.6B+22.9% · FY2025

General Electric (GE) reported $1.6B in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +22.9% year on year.

$4.6B2011$5.2B2012$5.5B2013$5.3B2014$5.3B2015$5.4B2016$5.5B2017$3.4B2018$3.1B2019$1.7B2020$1.7B2021$808M2022$1.0B2023$1.3B2024$1.6B2025
General Electric — R&D expense, 2011–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$1.6B+22.9%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$1.3B+27.2%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.0B+25.1%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$808M−52.0%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$1.7B−2.2%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.7B−44.8%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$3.1B−8.7%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$3.4B−38.0%Open →
FY20172017-12-31$5.5B+1.3%Open →
FY20162016-12-31$5.4B+3.0%Open →
FY20152015-12-31$5.3B+0.1%Open →
FY20142014-12-31$5.3B−3.4%Open →
FY20132013-12-31$5.5B+5.0%Open →
FY20122012-12-31$5.2B+13.0%Open →
FY20112011-12-31$4.6B—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2011–2025 compound annual growth −7.4%

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{General Electric R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0000040545-26-000008 · January 29, 2026

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