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. Shareholders 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 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.79%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, January 17th. View Caterpillar's Dividend History.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) released its quarterly earnings data 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 earned $12.76 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $13.49 billion. Caterpillar had a return on equity of 42.51% and a net margin of 10.99%. The business's revenue was down 5.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm 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.

Caterpillar issued an update on its FY19 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 23rd. The company provided EPS guidance of $10.90-11.40 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $11.65. The company issued revenue guidance of modestly lower from $54.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $55.72 billion.

20 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Caterpillar's stock. Their forecasts range from $100.00 to $178.00. On average, they expect Caterpillar's stock price to reach $145.73 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Caterpillar.

20 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 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Caterpillar.

Media headlines about CAT stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. InfoTrie scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a news impact score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles 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 stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 8,050,000 shares, a decrease of 8.3% from the December 15th total of 8,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,360,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Caterpillar's Current Options Chain.

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Caterpillar's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Hexavest Inc. (0.08%), Gateway Investment Advisers LLC (0.05%), Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.05%), Heritage Investors Management Corp (0.04%), Johanson Financial Advisors Inc. (0.03%) and Country Trust Bank (0.03%). 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, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Cozad Asset Management Inc., Grassi Investment Management, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Boenning & Scattergood Inc., Country Trust Bank and Tocqueville 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 bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hexavest Inc., Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC, DNB Asset Management AS, AE Wealth Management LLC, Cumberland Advisors Inc., Hoey Investments Inc. and Douglass Winthrop Advisors 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 $147.46.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $81.49 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]