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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CAT Caterpillar	$357.93 -0.1%	$345.95	$204.04 ▼ $382.01	$178.95B	1.17	2.10 million shs	1.92 million shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CAT Caterpillar	-0.11%	-3.78%	+1.14%	+25.47%	+59.33%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CAT Caterpillar	4.6801 of 5 stars	2.2	4.0	4.2	1.3	3.2	3.3	2.5

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CAT Caterpillar	2.39	Hold	$307.56	-14.07% Downside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest DPA, CAT, AGOU, EIH, and VNC Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/18/2024	CAT Caterpillar	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Perform ➝ Market Perform
4/16/2024	CAT Caterpillar	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$357.00 ➝ $408.00
4/16/2024	CAT Caterpillar	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$385.00 ➝ $435.00
3/14/2024	CAT Caterpillar	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$390.00
2/20/2024	CAT Caterpillar	Evercore ISI Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ In-Line	$321.00 ➝ $338.00
2/12/2024	CAT Caterpillar	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$255.00 ➝ $340.00
2/6/2024	CAT Caterpillar	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Underperform ➝ Underperform	$210.00 ➝ $257.00
2/6/2024	CAT Caterpillar	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$345.00 ➝ $385.00
2/6/2024	CAT Caterpillar	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$290.00 ➝ $325.00
2/6/2024	CAT Caterpillar	The Goldman Sachs Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$274.00 ➝ $357.00

(Data available from 4/19/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CAT Caterpillar	$67.06B	2.67	$25.58 per share	13.99	$38.31 per share	9.34

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CAT Caterpillar	$10.34B	$20.14	17.77	15.58	1.59	15.41%	56.99%	12.69%	4/25/2024 (Confirmed)

Latest DPA, CAT, AGOU, EIH, and VNC Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue	Details
4/25/2024	N/A	CAT Caterpillar	$5.11	N/A	-$5.11	N/A	N/A	N/A
2/5/2024	12/31/2023	CAT Caterpillar	$4.76	$5.23	+$0.47	$5.18	$17.06 billion	$17.07 billion

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CAT Caterpillar	$5.20	1.45%	+6.67%	25.82%	29 Years

Latest DPA, CAT, AGOU, EIH, and VNC Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/10/2024	CAT Caterpillar	quarterly	$1.30	1.4%	4/19/2024	4/22/2024	5/20/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
CAT Caterpillar	1.25	1.35	0.87

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CAT Caterpillar	70.98%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CAT Caterpillar	0.33%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CAT Caterpillar	113,200	499.40 million	497.75 million	Optionable

DPA, CAT, AGOU, EIH, and VNC Headlines

Source	Headline
	NYC Fibromyalgia Awareness-Caterpillar Walk volunteermatch.org - April 19 at 8:01 AM
	Caterpillar Sees Unusually Large Options Volume (NYSE:CAT) americanbankingnews.com - April 19 at 2:26 AM
	Q1 2024 EPS Estimates for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Boosted by Zacks Research americanbankingnews.com - April 19 at 1:48 AM
	Oppenheimer Keeps Their Hold Rating on Caterpillar (CAT) markets.businessinsider.com - April 18 at 5:54 PM
	Xponance Inc. Sells 3,593 Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) marketbeat.com - April 18 at 4:41 PM
	Caterpillar Target of Unusually Large Options Trading (NYSE:CAT) marketbeat.com - April 18 at 4:33 PM
	Caterpillar's Earnings: Can The Stock Keep Outperforming? seekingalpha.com - April 18 at 12:53 PM
	Caterpillar (CAT) Reports Next Week: Wall Street Expects Earnings Growth zacks.com - April 18 at 11:07 AM
	Why Investors Need to Take Advantage of These 2 Industrial Products Stocks Now zacks.com - April 18 at 9:51 AM
	5 Blue-Chip Stocks Set to Beat on Earnings Results This Month zacks.com - April 18 at 9:41 AM
	Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) Receives "Market Perform" Rating from Oppenheimer marketbeat.com - April 18 at 9:13 AM
	The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights Eli Lilly, Linde, Caterpillar, Salesforce, and Wells Fargo finance.yahoo.com - April 18 at 7:53 AM
	Brokers Issue Forecasts for Caterpillar Inc.'s Q1 2024 Earnings (NYSE:CAT) marketbeat.com - April 18 at 5:59 AM
	Here's how much Bill Gates earns from dividends finbold.com - April 18 at 4:31 AM
	Caterpillar (CAT) to Release Quarterly Earnings on Thursday americanbankingnews.com - April 18 at 3:10 AM
	Caterpillar hit with $100 million US jury verdict in importer's lawsuit reuters.com - April 17 at 8:27 PM
	Caterpillar (CAT) Stock Moves -0.43%: What You Should Know finance.yahoo.com - April 17 at 8:27 PM
	Daiwa Securities Group Inc. Sells 6,201 Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) marketbeat.com - April 17 at 6:51 PM
	This Combination of 3 Stocks Provides Monthly Income zacks.com - April 17 at 5:42 PM
	BKT earns Caterpillar supplier recognition honor tirebusiness.com - April 17 at 3:27 PM
	The 3 Smartest Infrastructure Stocks to Buy to Pave Your Way to Profits investorplace.com - April 17 at 1:19 PM
	2 Wall Street Analysts Share Differing Views on Caterpillar Stock. Who Is Right? fool.com - April 17 at 10:27 AM
	2 Wall Street Analysts Share Differing Views on Caterpillar Stock. Who Is Right? fool.com - April 17 at 9:23 AM
	Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) Price Target Raised to $408.00 at The Goldman Sachs Group americanbankingnews.com - April 17 at 4:56 AM

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Company Descriptions

Caterpillar

NYSE:CAT

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in worldwide. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, road reclaimers, forestry machines, cold planers, material handlers, track-type tractors, excavators, telehandlers, motor graders, and pipelayers; compact track, wheel, track-type, backhoe, and skid steer loaders; and related parts and tools. The company's Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, tractors, mining trucks, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wheel tractor scrapers and dozers, fleet management products, landfill and soil compactors, machinery components, autonomous ready vehicles and solutions, work tools, and safety services and mining performance solutions, as well as related parts and services. Its Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engine powered generator sets; reciprocating engines, drivetrain, and integrated systems and solutions; turbines, centrifugal gas compressors, and related services; and diesel-electric locomotives and components, and other rail-related products. The company's Financial Products segment provides operating and finance leases, installment sale contracts, revolving charge accounts, repair/rebuild financing services, working capital loans, and wholesale financing; and insurance and risk management products and services. Its All Other Operating segment offers filters and fluids, undercarriage, ground engaging tools, fluid transfer products, precision seals, and rubber sealing and connecting components; parts distribution; logistics solutions and distribution services; brand management and marketing strategy services; and digital investments services. Caterpillar Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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