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Caterpillar (CAT)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$379.63 USD

379.63
1,633,332

+3.43 (0.91%)

Updated Nov 1, 2024 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $379.57 -0.06 (-0.02%) 7:58 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.10%
2Buy17.80%
3Hold9.50%
4Sell2.70%
5Strong Sell2.70%
S&P50011.20%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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C Value C Growth D Momentum C VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Bottom 6% (235 out of 250)

Industry: Manufacturing - Construction and Mining

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Zacks News

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                      Caterpillar's (CAT) Monthly Sales Growth Peaks 12% in July

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                          Why Caterpillar (CAT) is a Must-Add Stock to Your Portfolio

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                                Caterpillar Poised to Ride on Asia, Cost Cuts & Construction

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                                      Zacks Earnings Trends Highlights: Caterpillar, Facebook and Intel

                                      Zacks Earnings Trends Highlights: Caterpillar, Facebook and Intel

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                                              Caterpillar Scales 52-Week High: What's Driving the Stock?

                                              Caterpillar Inc.'s (CAT) share prices have gained on the back of strong Q2 results, robust backlog and hiked guidance. Will cost cuts, sustained improvement in construction keep the momentum alive?

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                                                Positive Trends in Q3 Estimate Revisions

                                                Total earnings for Q2 are expected to be up +10.1% from the same period last year.

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                                                  Positive Trends in Q3 Estimate Revisions

                                                  Total earnings for Q2 are expected to be up +10.1% from the same period last year.