NYSE:CATCaterpillar Stock Price, Forecast & News

Caterpillar's stock was trading at $100.69 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, CAT stock has increased by 41.6% and is now trading at $142.57.
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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) announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, July, 31st. The industrial products company reported $1.03 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.37. The industrial products company had revenue of $10 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $9.40 billion. Caterpillar had a return on equity of 30.52% and a net margin of 8.90%. The company's revenue was down 30.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $2.83 EPS.
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Caterpillar announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, June 10th. Shareholders 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 is Friday, July 17th.
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24 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Caterpillar's stock. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $166.00. On average, they expect Caterpillar's share 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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Headlines about CAT stock have trended extremely negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. 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 -4.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines 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 effect on the company's share price in the next several days.
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Caterpillar saw a decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 7,260,000 shares, a decrease of 18.2% from the June 15th total of 8,870,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,130,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.8 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Sanders Capital LLC (1.14%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.07%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%), Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.98%), FMR LLC (0.62%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.48%). 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, American International Group Inc., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Hexavest Inc., Strs Ohio, and FMR LLC. 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., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, TD Asset Management Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department, PGGM Investments, Fisher Asset Management LLC, Main Street Research LLC, and Marshall Wace LLP.
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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 $142.57.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $77.20 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]