NYSE:CAT - Caterpillar Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Caterpillar trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "CAT."

Caterpillar announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 10th. Investors of record on Monday, October 22nd will be given a dividend of $0.86 per share on Tuesday, November 20th. This represents a $3.44 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, October 19th. View Caterpillar's Dividend History.

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The industrial products company reported $2.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $2.83 by $0.03. The industrial products company earned $13.51 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $13.28 billion. Caterpillar had a net margin of 7.13% and a return on equity of 44.13%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 18.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $1.95 earnings per share. View Caterpillar's Earnings History.

Caterpillar is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Caterpillar.

Caterpillar issued an update on its FY18 earnings guidance on Tuesday, October, 23rd. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $11-12 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $11.66. Caterpillar also updated its FY 2018 guidance to $11.00-12.00 EPS.

28 analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Caterpillar's stock. Their forecasts range from $105.00 to $200.00. On average, they anticipate Caterpillar's stock price to reach $157.8095 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 26.2% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Caterpillar.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Caterpillar in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 12 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Caterpillar.

Media coverage about CAT stock has trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie identifies positive and negative media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Caterpillar earned a media sentiment score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 7.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is likely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term.

Caterpillar saw a increase in short interest during the month of October. As of October 31st, there was short interest totalling 13,480,710 shares, an increase of 97.9% from the October 15th total of 6,810,835 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 10,318,364 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's stock are short sold. View Caterpillar's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Caterpillar include Komatsu (KMTUY), CNH Industrial (CNHI), Lonking (LONKF), Columbus McKinnon (CMCO), Douglas Dynamics (PLOW), Astec Industries (ASTE), Manitowoc (MTW), Gencor Industries, Inc. (DE) (GENC) and ASV (ASV).

Caterpillar's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.01%), Jennison Associates LLC (0.95%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.86%), FMR LLC (0.72%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.39%) and Prudential Financial Inc. (0.33%). Company insiders that own Caterpillar stock include Bradley M Halverson, Daniel M Dickinson, David L Calhoun, Denise C Johnson, Jananne A Copeland, Joseph E Creed, Lange Bob De, Suzette M Long, Thomas A Pellette and William A Osborn. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Caterpillar.

CAT stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, FMR LLC, Cornerstone Wealth Management LLC, Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, ClariVest Asset Management LLC, Selz Capital LLC and American Century Companies Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Caterpillar company stock in the last year include Bradley M Halverson, Denise C Johnson, Jananne A Copeland, Joseph E Creed, Suzette M Long and Thomas A Pellette. View Insider Buying and Selling for Caterpillar.

CAT stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including NN Investment Partners Holdings N.V., Russell Investments Group Ltd., Toronto Dominion Bank, Factory Mutual Insurance Co., Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd., CI Investments Inc., Cadinha & Co. LLC and Suffolk Capital Management 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of CAT stock can currently be purchased for approximately $125.00.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $74.89 billion and generates $45.46 billion in revenue each year. The industrial products company earns $754 million in net income (profit) each year or $6.88 on an earnings per share basis. Caterpillar employs 98,400 workers across the globe.

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]