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, December 11th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, January 21st will be given a dividend of $1.03 per share on Thursday, February 20th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.03%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, January 17th. View Caterpillar's Dividend History.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $2.66 earnings per share 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 company's revenue for the quarter was down 5.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business 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 will be holding an earnings conference call on Friday, January 31st at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

21 analysts have issued 12-month target prices for Caterpillar's shares. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $178.00. On average, they anticipate Caterpillar's share price to reach $147.69 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.8% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Caterpillar.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Caterpillar in the last year. There are currently 4 sell ratings, 9 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 very positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a media sentiment score of 3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar saw a drop in short interest in January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 8,050,000 shares, a drop of 8.3% from the December 31st total of 8,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,260,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.5 days. Currently, 1.5% of the company's shares are short sold. View Caterpillar's Current Options Chain.

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Caterpillar's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include California Public Employees Retirement System (0.24%), New York State Teachers Retirement System (0.15%), OLD Republic International Corp (0.09%), Strs Ohio (0.09%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.08%) and Hexavest Inc. (0.08%). 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 Calamos Advisors LLC, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, California Public Employees Retirement System, New York State Teachers Retirement System, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Cozad Asset Management Inc. and Grassi Investment Management. 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Strs Ohio, Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., OLD Republic International Corp, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Braun Stacey Associates Inc., Usca Ria LLC and Loveless Wealth Management LLC. 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 $135.78.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $75.04 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]