Caterpillar Inc. Overview
CAT market data
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Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. Its reporting segments are construction, resource, energy, and transportation. Market share approaches 20% across many products. Caterpillar operates a captive finance subsidiary to facilitate sales. The firm has a global reach that is approximately evenly balanced between the US and the rest of the world. Construction skews more domestic, while the other divisions are more geographically diversified. An independent network of over 150 dealers operates approximately 2,800 facilities, giving Caterpillar reach into about 190 countries for sales and support services.
- Source
- massive
- Observed
- Cadence
- Reference data reviewed periodically
- Status
- fresh
Price HistoryDaily closing prices from recorded market data. The latest point represents the most recent completed daily period; prices can move before the next point appears.
- O
- 571.40
- H
- 571.86
- L
- 554.98
- C
- 556.45
- Vol
- 114,388.00
Daily history from Jan 4, 2016
- Source
- US equities market feed
- Observed
- Cadence
- Five-minute page cache; daily and stored hourly bars
- Status
- fresh
Key Stats & PerformanceOpen, range, return and notional-volume facts calculated from daily market bars.
- Open
- $571.40
- Previous Close
- $553.45
- Day High
- $571.86
- Day Low
- $554.98
- 52 Week High
- $1,068.93
- 52 Week Low
- $533.01
- 7 Day Return
- -10.65%
- 30 Day Return
- -31.46%
- 90 Day Return
- -33.41%
- 1 Year Return
- -1.47%
- Daily Notional Volume
- $63.7M Latest daily bar volume multiplied by its closing price.
Valuation & ProfitabilityProvider-backed valuation, profitability, and range metrics for the selected company. Display-only; never feeds scores or decisions.
- P/E (TTM)
- 22.77 Trailing twelve-month price-to-earnings ratio. Higher means the market is pricing in more growth. Negative or missing when earnings are negative.
- Forward P/E
- — P/E based on consensus forward EPS estimates. Lower versus trailing implies expected earnings growth.
- EPS (TTM)
- $18.81 Diluted earnings per share over the trailing twelve months.
- Beta
- 1.64 Volatility relative to the index. 1.00 equals market, above 1 amplifies the broad-market move, below 1 dampens it.
- Dividend Yield
- 2.1% Annual dividend per share divided by current price. Zero or blank when the company does not pay a dividend.
- Profit Margin
- 15.2% Net income divided by revenue. Comparable within a sector, less so across sectors.
- 52w range
- $537.08 – $1,073.46 Lowest and highest closing prices over the past 52 weeks.
- Analyst Target
- — Mean of sell-side analyst 12-month price targets. Use as a sentiment gauge; targets are biased upward in aggregate.
Display-only. Refreshed once per symbol per 24 hours · market cap $269.4B · P/B 12.58 · P/S 3.46.