Diversified Machinery: Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL), Broadwind Energy (NASDAQ:BWEN)

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) has the potential to generate around $15-$17 billion of cumulative free cash through 2016, and could even repurchase up to 35 million shares per year over the next three years, says a report from Barclays on 31 March 2014 by analysts Andy Kaplowitz, Vlad Bystricky, Alan Fleming and Jing Feng. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) stock performance was 0.44% in last session and finished the day at $99.81. Traded volume was 4,814,300 million shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 6.29 million shares. The beta of the stock remained 1.79. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) insider ownership is 0.20 %.

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) Intelligent Platforms today announced that it had received orders from Agusta Westland of Italy for GE’s MAGIC1 Rugged Display Computer. The MAGIC1 will be part of Agusta Westland’s OPLS (Obstacle Proximity LIDAR system) which the company will offer on helicopters destined for search and rescue (SAR) deployment. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) dropped -0.08 percent to $25.87 yesterday on volume of 800.00 million shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $25.75 to $25.99. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has a market capitalization of $260.27 billion.

Credit Suisse boosted their price objective on shares of Pall Corp. (NYSE:PLL) from $94.00 to $102.00 in a research note issued on Tuesday, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports. The firm currently has an “outperform” rating on the stock. Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL)’s stock on April 1, 2014 reported an increase of 1.46% to the closing price of $90.78. Its fifty two weeks range is $62.72 -$90.82. The total market capitalization recorded $9.97 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 600,900 million shares. In its share capital, Pall Corporation (NYSE:PLL) has 109.78 million outstanding shares.

Broadwind Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:BWEN) just hit a fresh high breaching the psychologically-important $10.00 per share mark for the first time. This level is also close to the 52 week high for Broadwind Energy which has added roughly 15% in the last 12 weeks, suggesting that decent momentum is present in BWEN. On Tuesday, shares of Broadwind Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:BWEN) advanced 3.68% to close the day at $12.67. Company return on investment (ROI) is -15.80% and its monthly performance is recorded as 29.02%. Broadwind Energy Inc. (NASDAQ:BWEN) quarterly revenue growth is 33.09%.