Caterpillar Stock Forecast, Price & News

Caterpillar's stock was trading at $100.69 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, CAT stock has increased by 56.0% and is now trading at $157.05.
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23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Caterpillar in the last year. There are currently 3 sell ratings, 9 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 Friday, January 29th 2021.
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Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 27th. The industrial products company reported $1.34 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.15 by $0.19. The industrial products company had revenue of $9.88 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.78 billion. Caterpillar had a return on equity of 25.24% and a net margin of 7.60%. The company's quarterly revenue was down 22.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $2.66 earnings per share.
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Caterpillar announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 14th. Investors of record on Monday, October 26th will be given a dividend of $1.03 per share on Friday, November 20th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.62%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, October 23rd.
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23 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Caterpillar's stock. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $220.00. On average, they anticipate Caterpillar's share price to reach $149.11 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 5.1%.
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Headlines about CAT stock have trended somewhat positive this week, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a coverage optimism score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.
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Caterpillar saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,640,000 shares, an increase of 27.8% from the September 30th total of 6,760,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,170,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.7 days. Currently, 1.6% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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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 variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Prudential PLC (0.09%), Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.08%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.08%), State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D (0.07%), Toronto Dominion Bank (0.06%) and Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.06%). Company insiders that own Caterpillar stock include Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel, Lange Bob De, Suzette M Long and William P Ainsworth.
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CAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, Aptus Capital Advisors LLC, Prudential PLC, Axel Capital Management LLC, Standard Life Aberdeen plc, Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, and Ziegler Capital Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Caterpillar company stock in the last year include Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel, Lange Bob De, and William P Ainsworth.
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CAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, Bradley Foster & Sargent Inc. CT, Candriam Luxembourg S.C.A., Envestnet Asset Management Inc., ARK Investment Management LLC, Foundry Partners LLC, Transform Wealth LLC, and Assenagon Asset Management S.A..
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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 $157.05.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $85.04 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]