Caterpillar Stock Forecast, Price & 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 (WHO). Since then, CAT shares have increased by 51.3% and is now trading at $152.39.
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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 earnings results on Friday, July, 31st. The industrial products company reported $1.03 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates 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 company's revenue was down 30.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $2.83 earnings per share.
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Caterpillar announced 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 2.70%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, July 17th.
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24 brokers have issued 12 month price objectives for Caterpillar's shares. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $175.00. On average, they anticipate Caterpillar's share price to reach $141.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.5%.
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Media headlines about CAT stock have trended very negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research group identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded 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 -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.
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Caterpillar saw a increase in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 7,000,000 shares, an increase of 12.2% from the August 15th total of 6,240,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,300,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 1.3% of the shares of the company 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 many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (8.67%), BlackRock Inc. (6.63%), Sanders Capital LLC (1.14%), Fisher Asset Management LLC (1.07%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.04%) and Macquarie Group Ltd. (0.98%). 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 Vanguard Group Inc., LSV Asset Management, Sanders Capital LLC, Prudential PLC, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Advisor Group Holdings Inc., American International Group Inc., and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Company insiders that have sold Caterpillar company stock in the last year include Denise C Johnson, Gary Michael Marvel, Lange Bob De, and Suzette M Long.
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CAT stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Macquarie Group Ltd., BlackRock Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, TD Asset Management Inc., State of Tennessee Treasury Department, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Balyasny Asset Management LLC, and PGGM Investments.
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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 $152.39.

Caterpillar has a market capitalization of $82.52 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]