machinery

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) were trading higher by more than 3 percent ahead of Thursday's market open and even traded above its all-time high of $173.24. But the stock opened at $173.10 and then quickly traded as low as $162.46 before rebounding to the $170 level. Shares were...

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) investors saw a return of 75 percent in 2017 versus the S&P 500's 22-percent gain, and a Wall Street analyst is projecting the growth will continue.  The Analyst JPMorgan's Ann Duignan upgraded Caterpillar's stock from Neutral to Overweight...

Much investor attention throughout the holiday season is focused on retail and e-commerce companies, but it may be a mistake to ignore activity in other sectors, such as the agriculture equipment space. The Analyst Deutsche Bank's Nicole DeBlase upgraded Deere & Company (NYSE: DE)'s...

Gardner Denver Holdings Inc (NYSE: GDI), an industrial machinery maker, completed its initial public offering in early May. A slew of sell-side reports were released Tuesday, with the general consensus being bullish. Credit Suisse: Neutral Credit Suisse's Julian Mitchell initiated coverage of...

Share of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) came under serious selling pressure Thursday after three federal agencies raided the company's corporate headquarters in Peoria, Illinois. On Friday, Ross Gilardi of Bank of America offered his take on the situation. For starters, Gilardi believes...

Goldman in a research note released on Monday raised its machinery coverage view to Attractive but lowered its construction products coverage to Neutral. Noting that the construction spending in the United States has increased 28 percent since it turned positive on the U.S. construction cycle in...

While the key machinery end markets appear to be bottoming, manufacturing restructuring would likely drive “structurally higher margins” for companies like Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) and Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI), Goldman Sachs’ Jerry Revich said in a report. He recommended a...

Oshkosh Corp (NYSE: OSK) disappointed investors by providing downbeat outlook for the fiscal year 2017 though it offered upbeat forecast for the current fiscal year. This sparked investors to dump the stock in the pre-market trading on Friday. The outlook provided by the company is likely to...

Deutsche Bank is cautious on the machinery sector in the United States. Analysts Nicole DeBlase and Saree Boroditsky don't see any recovery in sight in the natural resources segment, although they think the sector has bottomed. However, the brokerage picked up Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) as the...

While Oshkosh Corp (NYSE: OSK) has outperformed its peers by 18 percentage points year-to-date driven by positive defense news, the stock trades in line with the peer group, despite the company’s superior growth profile. Deutsche Bank’s Nicole DeBlase initiated coverage of the company...