Caterpillar Earnings Preview: Can It Pull Off Another Upside Surprise?

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The world's largest construction and agricultural equipment maker, Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), is scheduled to discuss its first-quarter financial results in a conference call Monday, April 26, at 11:00 AM (ET). You can catch the live webcast of the call (later archived) at the company's website.

During the three months that ended in March, Caterpillar announced that it would join a clean-coal alliance, launched new operations in Australia and considered moving jobs from Japan to the U.S. But analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters expect the Peoria-based company to report first-quarter earnings of $0.39 per share, the same as in the year-ago period. And revenue is expected to have fallen 4.2% to $8.8 billion.

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