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Caterpillar (CAT) owners watched the stock rise 2.3% in the last five sessions while the S&P 500 fell 1.2%. If the rest of your money follows the market, Caterpillar's moves on ordinary market days matter more than one good week. So is Caterpillar stock increasing your market risk.

Caterpillar's shifting revenue mix reveals a company changing its core narrative. Management sounds notably different on its earnings calls today compared to a year ago. Through 2025, leadership kept pointing to one specific sales tool for its construction machines. However, in the fiscal Q2 2026 call, management pivoted to lead with data centers instead. Construction is still about a third of Caterpillar's revenue, so you should care when management changes how it talks about a business that si

You want to know what could send Caterpillar (CAT) stock higher again. For one part of Caterpillar, buyers are not the problem. Some customers of its Power & Energy business are already placing orders as far out as 2030. That business—formerly Energy & Transportation, now Power & Energy—was Caterpillar's largest segment by revenue in fiscal 2025, so how fast it fills those orders is critical to the company's performance. So what is Caterpillar building to fill them.

Wall Street’s bearish price targets for the stocks in this article signal serious concerns. Such forecasts are uncommon in an industry where maintaining cordial corporate relationships often trumps delivering the hard truth.

Three farm stocks collect income from completely different points in the crop chain, and right now those differences are splitting their fortunes wide open. Knowing which one fits your portfolio comes down to understanding exactly where each sits when harvests are plentiful but farmers stop spending.

Toro (TTC) trades within about 4% of its 52-week high, and it keeps buying back shares with cash from zero-turn mowers, golf equipment and Ditch Witch drills. But over three years the buybacks have only softened a fall in earnings per share, and today's price assumes profit growth comes back.

The U.S. and China extended their trade truce, but the deal treated soybeans and semiconductors very differently. Which sector actually has something to gain, and which is already priced as if China does not exist?

Deere has delivered a powerful run in recent years, and the stock now trades near the upper end of its recent range, which naturally puts the spotlight on what investors are paying for its underlying cash flows. With that share price backdrop in mind, the question is how closely the current valuation lines up with the stream of cash the business is expected to generate over time. Over the past 5 years, Deere has returned 120.8%, which raises the stakes on whether the current share price can...

Whether you see them or not, industrials businesses play a crucial part in our daily activities. Still, their generally high capital requirements expose them to the ups and downs of economic cycles, and the market seems confused about where we could go next. This uncertainty has led to a flat return for the industry over the past six months while the S&P 500 was up 16.9%.

Caterpillar (CAT) stock returned 74% in the twelve months to September 23, 2026. A $10,000 holding at the start was worth about $17,350 at the end. The run turned out to be about customers buying more, led by power equipment for data centers. Caterpillar's own sales, though, were still falling when the run began. You would have needed a public sign that Caterpillar's demand was turning before its sales did.

Investing.com -- Yardeni Research has cautioned investors not to expect a major breakthrough when President Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, though it said modest progress would still be welcome.

During these busy times, it pays to stay on top of the latest profit opportunities. And today’s blog post should be a great place to start. After taking a close look at the latest data on institutional buying pressure and each company’s fundamental health, I decided to revise my Stock Grader recommendations for 95 big blue chips. Chances are that you have at least one of these stocks in your portfolio, so you may want to give this list a skim and act accordingly. This Week’s Ratings Changes: Upg

Even if a company is profitable, it doesn’t always mean it’s a great investment. Some struggle to maintain growth, face looming threats, or fail to reinvest wisely, limiting their future potential.

Large-cap stocks usually command their industries because they have the scale to drive market trends. The flip side though is that their sheer size can limit growth as expanding further becomes an increasingly challenging task.

Caterpillar (CAT) delivered the biggest quarter in its history, with a $72 billion order book behind it—59% of which it expects to ship over the next twelve months. The stock has gained 82.8% on a price basis over the past twelve months against 15.6% for the S&P 500, and still sits about 25% below its 52-week high. Neither the record nor the backlog is the number to watch. That would be the roughly $2.2 billion of tariff costs, before the second-quarter recoveries, that Caterpillar expects to ca