Jim Cramer says General Electric (GE) - Get Report is "one of the toughest stocks I've ever had to deal with" because it's unclear whether new CEO John Flannery plans to maintain the industrial giant's traditional quarterly dividend.

General Electric currently pays a 4% dividend, but its share price stumbled for years under former CEO Jeff Immelt, who left in August. The stock closed at just $23.93 Friday -- way below the nearly $60 it peaked at in 2000 shortly before Immelt became heir apparent to legendary ex-GE chief Jack Welch.

But now, Cramer said Immelt's departure and Flannery's arrival leave him unsure what to do with the GE shares Cramer's charitable trust owns.

"My take is that it's too low to sell, but I can't countenance buying [additional stock] until John tells us more about what he intends to do with the company," Cramer said. "John is no longer saying the dividend is inviolate."

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, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, is long GE.