Caterpillar Inc.
NYSECaterpillar has done the hard work in 48 hours — the Q2 print delivered a 7.5% gap-up and the stock closed Tuesday at $876.54, clawing back roughly a third of July's brutal losses — and now the question the Street must answer is whether the recovery deserves more credit than a relief bounce. The analyst response to the earnings print is moving faster than usual. Truist Securities…
CAT cost to borrow surges 188% in one week to 0.91%, signaling rising scarcity as availability swells to 9,405% of short interest.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumCaterpillar has done the hard work in 48 hours — the Q2 print delivered a 7.5% gap-up and the stock closed Tuesday at $876.54, clawing back roughly a third of July's brutal losses — and now the question the Street must…
Snapshot as of 12 Aug 2026
Caterpillar has already moved — up 5.6% on Tuesday to $876.54 and 7.5% above last Monday's close — meaning the Q2 print landed this morning with immediate market impact, and the question now shifts to whether the…
Caterpillar arrives at Tuesday's Q2 earnings report with its stock sitting 15% below the analyst consensus target — a gap that crystallises a genuine disagreement about whether the company's tariff headwinds are a…
Caterpillar heads into its August 4 earnings print with a fresh downgrade on the tape, a stock down 16% in a month, and options traders quietly less defensive than the price action might suggest. The week's defining…
Caterpillar has done what last week's note said it might: after the June 26 spike-and-reversal briefly pushed it back below $1,000, the stock has stormed through that level again, closing June 30 at $1,064.90 — an 8.2%…
Caterpillar has extended its post-earnings recovery to fresh highs, and the wider industrial machinery complex is moving with it — but options traders are quietly adding a layer of caution that wasn't there a week…
Caterpillar reported its June 10 earnings and closed the day at $914.70, up half a percent on the week — the pre-print calm that defined the past two weeks of coverage has now resolved into a post-earnings reality…
Caterpillar heads into its June 10 earnings call having given back nearly 4% in a single session — a sharp reversal that now puts the recently unwound options calm to the test. Thursday's 3.8% decline to $904.28 is the…
Caterpillar jumped 5.1% on Tuesday to $909.81, a sharp single-day move that arrived just one week before the company's June 10 earnings call — and the options market barely flinched. That composure is the most…
Caterpillar enters mid-May with a cluster of insider selling at the top of the house — even as Wall Street races to lift targets after a blockbuster first-quarter print. The most striking feature of the past week is…
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