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The Noteworthy Trends From Caterpillar’s Q4 Earnings Beat
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) reported strong earnings this week, ending the year on a strong note. Caterpillar grew consistently throughout 2017, comfortably beating estimates in each quarter. Net revenues for the fourth quarter grew to $12.9 billion ...
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Caterpillar Q3 Earnings: What To Expect
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) is scheduled to report its Q3 earnings on October 24, and we expect a low single digit increase in its overall sales. We expect Caterpillar’s construction sales from China to continue to increase due to government s...
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Why Caterpillar’s Stock Rallied To An All Time High
Caterpillar ’s (NYSE: CAT) stock price increased nearly 35% in the last 6 months, driven largely by improved margins and improving global sentiment, which could boost global expenditures on infrastructure and mining activities. Metal commodity pr...
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Asia Pacific Helped Deliver A Solid Quarter For Caterpillar
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) released its Q2 earnings earlier this week, marking the second consecutive quarter in which the company beat consensus estimates. The trends that we saw in the first quarter continued in Q2 as well. The results were driven...
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How Caterpillar And Deere’s Construction Businesses Compare
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and Deere (NYSE: DE) are often compared with one another in their respective construction equipment businesses, despite several differences. While Deere’s focus in primarily the agricultural equipment industry, Caterpillar...
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Key Takeaways From Caterpillar’s Earnings
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) released its Q1’17 earnings on April 25, beating consensus estimates for revenue by nearly $600 million. The results were driven by strength in the Asia Pacific construction industry, increased resource industry demand fro...
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Caterpillar Earnings Preview: Sales May Shrink, But There Is A Silver Lining
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) will report its Q1’17 earnings on April 25, and we expect a low single-digit decline in its sales due to weakness in the mining and construction industries. While commodity prices have rallied of late, which could signal a...
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Caterpillar Q4’16 Earning Note: Businesses Declined In Q4’16 But Expect Recovery Soon
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) reported its Q4’16 earning on January 26th and the results came in line with consensus estimates. Caterpillar’s sales continued to decline in all of its industrial segments, primarily due to the economic concerns in Europe...
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Caterpillar Earnings Preview: Revenue Decline To Continue In Q4’16
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) will announce its Q4’16 earnings on January 26th. Caterpillar’s revenues have declined year to year each quarter for the last couple of years and we expect that this trend continued in this quarter as well. Although oil pr...
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What 2017 Holds For Caterpillar: Caterpillar Businesses May Shrink Further But There Is A Silver Lining
The year 2016 was challenging for the heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and 2017 is expected to be a tough one for the company as well. Commodity prices continue to remain low as compared to 2015 levels, due to the downturn in ...
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The Year 2016 In Review: Another Challenging Year for Caterpillar
The year 2016 was a challenging one for the American heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT). The company saw nearly 15% to 25% decline across all its major segments, including energy & transportation, construction industrie...
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Is Caterpillar’s Increased Stock Price Warranted?
Following Donald Trump’s victory in U.S. presidential election, the stocks of U.S. construction equipment manufacturers Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) and Deere (NYSE: DE) stocks rose sharply on expectations of increased infrastructure spending by th...
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Caterpillar’s Mining Industry Sales Could Witness Growth Amid OPEC Deal Optimism
The current downturn in commodity prices, economic slowdown of China and global economic uncertainties have resulted in a momentous decline in the last two years and is likely to continue in the short term as economic uncertainties across the glo...
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Caterpillar’s situation worsens in Q3’16 despite restructuring affects
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) announced its Q3’16 earnings on October 25th and the results came in significantly below consensus estimates. Caterpillar witnessed declines in all of its industrial segments due to weakness in the Oil & Gas, Construct...
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Caterpillar Pre Earnings: Another Challenging Quarter For Caterpillar?
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) will declare its Q2’16 earning results on October 25th. We expect mid to low single digit growth in earnings due to about 21% increase in crude oil prices in Q3’16 and company’s restructuring efforts which were announced i...
