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Caterpillar Cracks $1,000.00 Per Share. History In The Making.

How did this stock get this high? What happened to the worries last summer that tariffs rising raw material would crush their bottom line? What happened to the worries that management commented on during their last few quarterly profit reports. Now look at Caterpillars five day chart. Caterpillar reached the $1,000.00 per share mark for the very first time. Yesterday the stock had a powerful one day surge upwards. Are some people now thinking that the stock could move even higher?. Think about this. Other stocks have also recently reached this threshold. Let's look at a three year chart on Costco to see what it's stock did after reaching the $1,000.00 dollar level for the very first time. Between January 29th and February 3th in 2024 the stock went from $979.00 to $1,022. Then on February 13th it reached $1,072.00 to only then fall back to $927.00 on March 12th. These are big numbers flying around. Let's move on to Eli Lilly and visit it's "reaching the $1,000....

Roku Jumped in Anticipation Of A Good Earnings Report

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Only to fall again. Look at this five and thirty day chart. ................................................... Yet thats only part of the story. Look at it's year to date chart. How bad was their earnings report? Do you think their pain and suffering is all now behind them? The stock is down 38% on the year. All I know is that they still seem to be making a pile of money. On a different note and in a different industry a stock named "First Solar" was stuck in neutral a few months back because interest rates where to seemingly high and companies in that industry were cutting back on the size and number of projects they were working on. Since that time and for whatever reason the stock in on fire. Both Boeing and Caterpillar also crashed last week on earning report releases. There seemed to be a hint of danger present in both companies releases. It's almost as if there was a domino effect. Next question? Why is Netflix gettng beat up? Look at it's chart. Is ...

Caterpillar - It's First Quarter Earnings Report And Traders Are Staying Away. A Read Which Might Be A Good Reference Point Going Forward.

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Boeing rallied yesterday on the release of it's earnings report only then to tank. Caterpillar is tanking this morning in the premarkets. Let's begin with it's 5 day and 30 day chart. ... The world needs to be rebuilt and Caterpillar is there to help. It's growing, it's got a good reputation, it's not laying off employees and it's doing just fine. If it misses a beat on it's earnings report so what? Life goes on. Then there are those pesky analyst who are known to offer a convoluted spin on things. If you like Caterpillar just buy it on the dips and put it away. So the markets will be opening on the commentary by the companies C.E.O of "sales about flat". Phrasing it that way is a recipe for short term disaster. ..... The two printouts above show some of the early morning action in one Put series and in One Call series. What happened the next day? A slight rebound with next to no traders trying to capitalize on a rebound. What does this tell ...