O’Neal Manufacturing Services is expanding its business partnership with Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) to provide a variety of fabricated parts and components for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)’s new Small Track Type Tractor. The announcement includes a $5 million investment by OMS-Birmingham in equipment designed to meet Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)’s current and future needs, and it will result in 20 to 25 new jobs. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) net profit margin is 6.90% and weekly performance is 0.05%. On last trading day company shares ended up $105.06. Analysts mean target price for the company is $111.96. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is 5.00%.
Deere & Company (NYSE:DE), which gets 63 percent of its sales domestically, is set to report earnings on Wednesday, while Wal-Mart Stores Inc , the largest of a slew of retailers reporting next week, is due to post results on Thursday. Wal-Mart gets 71 percent of its revenue from the United States. Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) shares advanced 0.06% in last trading session and ended the day on $94.34. DE Gross Margin is 32.00% and its return on assets is 6.10%. Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) quarterly performance is 9.62%.
Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW), with Crane segment sales not as strong in the first quarter of 2014 as stock analysts would liked to have seen, shares of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW) have fallen more than 10 percent in the past week. But Glen Tellock, president-CEO-board chairman, shared plenty of optimistic trends and developments at Tuesday’s annual shareholders meeting including a new grill for barbecuing chicken at Chick-fil-A’s restaurants worldwide created by Foodservice group engineers. Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW) shares moved up 0.22% in last trading session and was closed at $27.93, while trading in range of $27.46 – $27.95. Manitowoc Company, Inc. (NYSE:MTW) year to date (YTD) performance is 19.77%.
Mining equipment maker Joy Global Inc. (NYSE:JOY) and phone service provider Frontier Communications Corp. were among eight companies that had short interest exceeding 20 percent of their shares available for trading at the end of February. Their stocks have since increased an average 2.9 percent. Joy Global Inc. (NYSE:JOY) ended the last trading day at $58.96. Company weekly volatility is calculated as 1.27% and price to cash ratio as 20.30. Joy Global Inc. (NYSE:JOY) showed a negative weekly performance of -0.49%.
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