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. Since then, CAT shares have increased by 41.6% and is now trading at $142.53.
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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) released its quarterly earnings data on Friday, July, 31st. The industrial products company reported $1.03 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.37. The industrial products company earned $10 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $9.40 billion. Caterpillar had a net margin of 8.90% and a return on equity of 30.52%. The firm's revenue was down 30.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $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 paid a dividend of $1.03 per share on Thursday, August 20th. This represents a $4.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.89%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 17th.
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24 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets 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 year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.2%.
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Media headlines about CAT stock have been trending negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a media sentiment score of -2.6 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 media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.
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Caterpillar saw a increase in short interest in the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totaling 9,450,000 shares, an increase of 72.4% from the January 31st total of 5,480,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,970,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.2 days. Currently, 1.7% 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 investors include Sanders Capital LLC (1.14%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.07%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.98%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.48%), Swiss National Bank (0.40%) and New York State Common Retirement Fund (0.22%). 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, Russell Investments Group Ltd., Hexavest Inc., Strs Ohio, 6 Meridian, and Banco Santander S.A.. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Macquarie Group Ltd., PGGM Investments, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Main Street Research LLC, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC, Janney Capital Management LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., and Envestnet Asset Management Inc..
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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 $142.53.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $77.18 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]