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 paid a dividend of $1.03 per share on Thursday, February 20th. This represents a $4.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.10%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 17th. View Caterpillar's Dividend History.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, January, 31st. The industrial products company reported $2.63 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.37 by $0.26. The industrial products company earned $13.14 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $13.42 billion. Caterpillar had a return on equity of 41.85% and a net margin of 11.32%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was down 8.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $2.55 earnings per share. View Caterpillar's Earnings History.

Caterpillar is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Friday, January, 31st. The company provided EPS guidance of $8.50-10.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $10.67.

19 brokers have issued 1-year target prices for Caterpillar's shares. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $185.00. On average, they expect Caterpillar's share price to reach $144.75 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Caterpillar.

19 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Caterpillar in the last year. There are currently 5 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Caterpillar.

Headlines about CAT stock have trended very negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research group ranks the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. 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 media sentiment score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar saw a decline in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 6,860,000 shares, a decline of 14.8% from the January 15th total of 8,050,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,220,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.2% of the company's stock are short sold. View Caterpillar's Current Options Chain.

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Caterpillar's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Wealth Quarterback LLC (26.98%), State Street Corp (8.10%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.37%), Sanders Capital LLC (1.29%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.86%) and FMR LLC (0.68%). 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, Bank of Montreal Can, AQR Capital Management LLC, LSV Asset Management, Oakbrook Investments LLC, Alliancebernstein L.P., Calamos Advisors LLC and Point72 Asset Management L.P.. 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 Wealth Quarterback LLC, FMR LLC, American International Group Inc., Sanders Capital LLC, Capital International Investors, Hexavest Inc., Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc. and Strs Ohio. 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 $132.87.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $73.09 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.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]