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On Friday, Gordon Johnson of Axiom initiated Caterpillar with a Sell rating and $28 price target. Johson argued that Caterpillar's 2016 EPS would be $2.79 – 38 percent below Wall Street expectations.
Eagle Bay Capital Founder JC Parets mirrored Johnson's pessimism in an interview on Benzinga's #PreMarket Prep, stating that the technicals don't look promising for a rebound. Parets argued that the best strategy has been to sell Caterpillar on strength, particularly since the stock broke below support at $80.
Now, the stock is acting like one of the worst in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, right along the likes of the beaten-down energy names. Caterpillar is "obviously" in the worst of the worst – and it has been one of them for a "long, long time, Parets said.
Parets also pointed to Caterpillar's downward-sloping 200-day moving average, which ended Friday at $81.44, as evidence of the stock's weakness. He suggested that the price could fall to $58 in the near term, a level that corresponds with its 61.8 percent Fibonacci retracement of its 2009 to 2011 rally.
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