Caterpillar Inc.
NYSECaterpillar heads into the final stretch before its October 29 Q3 earnings print with the stock slightly off its highs, shorts consolidating at a still-modest level, and options traders notably less defensive than they were a week ago. The clearest development this week is in options positioning, and it cuts against the cautious grain of recent weeks. The put/call ratio has dropped…
CAT Freedom Broker upgrades to Buy with $980 price target, up from Hold rating; stock at $815.56, down 0.8% today but up 2.9% over past week as analyst sentiment tilts constructive.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumCaterpillar heads into the final stretch before its October 29 Q3 earnings print with the stock slightly off its highs, shorts consolidating at a still-modest level, and options traders notably less defensive than they…
Snapshot as of 27 Sept 2026
Caterpillar enters September with its CEO selling shares at the market and the stock down 4% on the week — a combination that puts the near-term bull case under mild pressure even as the fundamental story remains…
Caterpillar surrendered the ground it had been quietly rebuilding — closing Tuesday at $840.87, down 4.6% on the day and erasing the modest gains of the prior week — and the selloff is not a CAT-specific story. Every…
Caterpillar 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…
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…
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