NYSE:CATCaterpillar Stock Price, Forecast & News

Caterpillar's stock was trading at $100.69 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CAT stock has increased by 41.6% and is now trading at $142.57.
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24 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Caterpillar in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."
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Caterpillar is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 28th 2020.
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Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) posted its quarterly earnings results on Friday, July, 31st. The industrial products company reported $1.03 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.37. The industrial products company earned $10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.40 billion. Caterpillar had a net margin of 8.90% and a return on equity of 30.52%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 30.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $2.83 EPS.
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Caterpillar declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 10th. Investors of record on Monday, July 20th will be given a dividend of $1.03 per share on Thursday, August 20th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.89%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 17th.
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24 brokerages have issued 12-month price objectives for Caterpillar's shares. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $166.00. On average, they anticipate Caterpillar's stock price to reach $137.94 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.2%.
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News stories about CAT stock have trended negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a coverage optimism score of -2.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news stories 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 effect on the company's share price in the next few days.
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Caterpillar saw a decline in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 7,260,000 shares, a decline of 18.2% from the June 15th total of 8,870,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,130,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 1.8 days. Currently, 1.3% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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Caterpillar trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CAT."

Caterpillar's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Sanders Capital LLC (1.14%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.07%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.98%), FMR LLC (0.62%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.48%). Company insiders that own Caterpillar stock include Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel, Lange Bob De and Suzette M Long.
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CAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, Sanders Capital LLC, Prudential PLC, American International Group Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Hexavest Inc., Strs Ohio, and FMR LLC. Company insiders that have sold Caterpillar company stock in the last year include Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel, and Suzette M Long.
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CAT stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Macquarie Group Ltd., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, TD Asset Management Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department, PGGM Investments, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Main Street Research LLC, and Marshall Wace LLP.
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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 $142.57.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $77.20 billion and generates $53.80 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $6.09 billion in net income (profit) each year or $11.06 on an earnings per share basis. Caterpillar employs 102,300 workers across the globe.

The official website for Caterpillar is 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]