NYSE:CAT - Caterpillar Stock Price, Forecast & News

Caterpillar trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CAT."

Caterpillar announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 9th. Shareholders of record on Monday, October 21st will be given a dividend of $1.03 per share on Wednesday, November 20th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.89%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 18th. View Caterpillar's Dividend History.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $2.66 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $2.82 by $0.16. The industrial products company had revenue of $12.76 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.49 billion. Caterpillar had a net margin of 10.99% and a return on equity of 42.51%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 5.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $2.86 earnings per share. View Caterpillar's Earnings History.

Caterpillar is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Friday, January 31st 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $10.90-11.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $11.65. The company issued revenue guidance of modestly lower from $54.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $55.72 billion.

20 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Caterpillar's stock. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $160.00. On average, they expect Caterpillar's stock price to reach $137.80 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.4%. View Analyst Price Targets for Caterpillar.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Caterpillar in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 8 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Caterpillar.

Media stories about CAT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a daily sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 13,530,000 shares, an increase of 46.1% from the October 31st total of 9,260,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,080,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.3 days. Currently, 2.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Caterpillar's Current Options Chain.

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Caterpillar's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include State Street Corp (8.36%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (0.96%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.43%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.29%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.24%) and Russell Investments Group Ltd. (0.17%). Company insiders that own Caterpillar stock include David L Calhoun, Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel, Joseph E Creed, Lange Bob De, Suzette M Long and Thomas A Pellette. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Caterpillar.

CAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Strs Ohio, Man Group plc, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, Boston Partners and Artemis Investment Management LLP. Company insiders that have sold Caterpillar company stock in the last year include Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel and Suzette M Long. View Insider Buying and Selling for Caterpillar.

CAT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Fisher Asset Management LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, OLD Republic International Corp, Hexavest Inc., LA Financiere DE L Echiquier, First Trust Advisors LP and 6 Meridian. Company insiders that have bought Caterpillar stock in the last two years include David L Calhoun and Lange Bob De. View Insider Buying and Selling for Caterpillar.

Shares of CAT can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $142.72.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $78.88 billion and generates $54.72 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $6.15 billion in net income (profit) each year or $11.22 on an earnings per share basis. Caterpillar employs 104,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Caterpillar.

The official website for Caterpillar is http://www.caterpillar.com/.

Caterpillar's mailing address is 510 Lake Cook Road Suite 100, Deerfield IL, 60015. The industrial products company can be reached via phone at 224-551-4000 or via email at [email protected]