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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	$255.38 -6.5%	$251.02	$191.31 ▼ $282.98	$9.71B	0.94	331,132 shs	579,391 shs
AOS A. O. Smith	$72.18 -0.5%	$68.35	$58.83 ▼ $92.06	$10.12B	1.22	1.58 million shs	1.25 million shs
ASTE Astec Industries	$45.15 -1.3%	$40.75	$29.04 ▼ $46.64	$1.03B	1.43	188,742 shs	268,269 shs
CAT Caterpillar	$407.41 -2.4%	$399.63	$267.30 ▼ $441.15	$191.04B	1.4	3.16 million shs	3.11 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	0.00%	-2.92%	-2.65%	+8.21%	+28.39%
AOS A. O. Smith	0.00%	+1.96%	+2.12%	+2.37%	-9.56%
ASTE Astec Industries	0.00%	+4.54%	+16.07%	+7.50%	+41.09%
CAT Caterpillar	0.00%	-2.17%	-2.58%	+15.22%	+20.74%

Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	4.3916 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	3.3	1.4	2.7	1.7	2.5
AOS A. O. Smith	4.6578 of 5 stars	2.1	3.0	4.2	2.0	3.6	2.5	2.5
ASTE Astec Industries	1.7781 of 5 stars	1.0	4.0	1.7	0.0	2.6	1.7	1.3
CAT Caterpillar	4.6915 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	4.2	1.3	4.1	2.5	2.5

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	2.86	Moderate Buy	$287.86	12.72% Upside
AOS A. O. Smith	2.29	Hold	$77.43	7.27% Upside
ASTE Astec Industries	2.00	Hold	$41.00	-9.19% Downside
CAT Caterpillar	2.78	Moderate Buy	$444.00	8.98% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest CAT, ASTE, AIT, and AOS Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/15/2025	AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	Raymond James Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Outperform ➝ Market Perform
8/15/2025	AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	Oppenheimer Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$290.00 ➝ $300.00
8/15/2025	AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	Robert W. Baird Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$265.00 ➝ $300.00
8/14/2025	AOS A. O. Smith	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C)
8/6/2025	CAT Caterpillar	Citigroup Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$460.00 ➝ $500.00
8/6/2025	CAT Caterpillar	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$475.00 ➝ $520.00
8/6/2025	CAT Caterpillar	Barclays Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Equal Weight ➝ Equal Weight	$383.00 ➝ $425.00
8/6/2025	CAT Caterpillar	Bank of America Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$460.00 ➝ $495.00
8/6/2025	CAT Caterpillar	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$414.00 ➝ $507.00
7/29/2025	AOS A. O. Smith	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C) ➝ Hold (C)
7/28/2025	AOS A. O. Smith	UBS Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Neutral ➝ Neutral	$74.00 ➝ $76.00

(Data available from 8/17/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	$4.56B	2.13	$12.05 per share	21.20	$48.43 per share	5.27
AOS A. O. Smith	$3.82B	2.65	$4.34 per share	16.63	$13.17 per share	5.48
ASTE Astec Industries	$1.31B	0.79	$4.53 per share	9.97	$29.50 per share	1.53
CAT Caterpillar	$63.14B	3.02	$26.91 per share	15.14	$39.84 per share	10.23

Compare 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
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	$385.76M	$10.12	25.24	23.71	3.14	8.61%	21.78%	12.74%	10/23/2025 (Estimated)
AOS A. O. Smith	$533.60M	$3.59	20.11	17.19	1.57	13.68%	28.42%	16.52%	10/28/2025 (Estimated)
ASTE Astec Industries	$4.30M	$1.99	22.69	∞	N/A	3.50%	11.52%	7.07%	11/5/2025 (Estimated)
CAT Caterpillar	$10.79B	$19.66	20.72	18.43	2.43	14.95%	48.95%	10.60%	10/29/2025 (Estimated)

Latest CAT, ASTE, AIT, and AOS Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/14/2025	Q4 2025	AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	$2.60	$2.80	+$0.20	$2.80	$1.18 billion	$1.22 billion
8/6/2025	Q2 2025	ASTE Astec Industries	$0.60	$0.88	+$0.28	$0.72	$361.00 million	$330.30 million
8/5/2025	Q2 2025	CAT Caterpillar	$4.88	$4.72	-$0.16	$4.62	$16.14 billion	$16.57 billion
7/24/2025	Q2 2025	AOS A. O. Smith	$0.97	$1.07	+$0.10	$1.07	$997.89 million	$1.01 billion

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	$1.84	0.72%	N/A	18.18%	16 Years
AOS A. O. Smith	$1.36	1.88%	N/A	37.88%	31 Years
ASTE Astec Industries	$0.52	1.15%	N/A	26.13%	N/A
CAT Caterpillar	$6.04	1.48%	N/A	30.72%	30 Years

Latest CAT, ASTE, AIT, and AOS Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
6/25/2025	AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	quarterly	$0.46	0.78%	8/15/2025	8/15/2025	8/29/2025
7/25/2025	ASTE Astec Industries	quarterly	$0.13	1.28%	8/11/2025	8/11/2025	8/29/2025
6/11/2025	CAT Caterpillar	quarterly	$1.51	1.67%	7/21/2025	7/21/2025	8/20/2025
7/7/2025	AOS A. O. Smith	quarterly	$0.34	2%	7/31/2025	7/31/2025	8/15/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	0.31	3.32	2.51
AOS A. O. Smith	0.15	1.65	1.03
ASTE Astec Industries	0.13	2.71	1.08
CAT Caterpillar	1.50	1.34	0.81

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	93.52%
AOS A. O. Smith	76.10%
ASTE Astec Industries	93.16%
CAT Caterpillar	70.98%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	1.67%
AOS A. O. Smith	0.76%
ASTE Astec Industries	0.69%
CAT Caterpillar	0.33%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies	6,500	38.09 million	37.45 million	Optionable
AOS A. O. Smith	12,700	140.13 million	139.07 million	Optionable
ASTE Astec Industries	4,148	22.88 million	22.72 million	Optionable
CAT Caterpillar	112,900	468.48 million	466.93 million	Optionable

CAT, ASTE, AIT, and AOS Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

United Capital Management of KS Inc. Has $4.44 Million Stake in Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

August 17 at 7:49 AM | marketbeat.com

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Stock Position Reduced by State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D

August 17 at 7:48 AM | marketbeat.com

Ethic Inc. Sells 995 Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

August 17 at 7:06 AM | marketbeat.com

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Shares Acquired by Brandywine Global Investment Management LLC

August 17 at 6:54 AM | marketbeat.com

Aberdeen Group plc Boosts Stock Position in Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

August 17 at 6:37 AM | marketbeat.com

Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Sells 93,762 Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

August 17 at 6:28 AM | marketbeat.com

Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) Stock Holdings Decreased by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

August 17 at 6:27 AM | marketbeat.com

Kovitz Investment Group Partners LLC Acquires 35,836 Shares of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

August 17 at 5:59 AM | marketbeat.com

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August 16 at 8:20 AM | marketbeat.com

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Prudential PLC Has $2.85 Million Stake in Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

August 16 at 5:00 AM | marketbeat.com

Caterpillar Blames Operating Profit Slide on Tariffs

August 16 at 2:16 AM | manufacturing.netM

Jim Cramer Predicts Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Is Going To Receive “Huge” Orders

August 15 at 8:11 PM | finance.yahoo.com

Pacer Advisors Dumps Caterpillar Shares Worth $458.6 Million

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August 15 at 2:58 PM | marketbeat.com

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CAT, ASTE, AIT, and AOS Company Descriptions

Applied Industrial Technologies NYSE:AIT

$255.38 -17.66 (-6.47%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$255.26 -0.12 (-0.05%)

As of 08/15/2025 07:22 PM Eastern

Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. distributes industrial motion, power, control, and automation technology solutions in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. It operates in two segments, Service Center Based Distribution, and Engineered Solutions. The company distributes bearings, power transmission products, engineered fluid power components and systems, specialty flow control solutions, advanced automation products, industrial rubber products, linear motion components, automation solutions, tools, safety products, oilfield supplies, and other industrial and maintenance supplies; and motors, belting, drives, couplings, pumps, hydraulic and pneumatic components, filtration supplies, valves, fittings, process instrumentation, actuators, and hoses, filtration supplies, as well as other related supplies for general operational needs of customers' machinery and equipment. It also operates fabricated rubber shops and service field crews that install, modify, and repair conveyor belts and rubber linings, as well as offer hose assemblies. In addition, the company provides technical support services; engages in the distribution of fluid power and industrial flow control products; advanced automation solutions, including machine vision, robotics, motion control, and smart technologies. It distributes industrial products through a network of service centers. The company serves various industries, including agriculture and food processing, cement, chemicals and petrochemicals, fabricated metals, forest products, industrial machinery and equipment, life sciences, mining, oil and gas, primary metals, technology, transportation, and utilities, as well as government entities. The company was formerly known as Bearings, Inc. and changed its to name to Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. in 1997. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

A. O. Smith NYSE:AOS

$72.18 -0.34 (-0.47%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$72.21 +0.03 (+0.04%)

As of 08/15/2025 04:20 PM Eastern

A. O. Smith Corporation manufactures and markets residential and commercial gas and electric water heaters, boilers, heat pumps, tanks, and water treatment products in North America, China, Europe, and India. The company offers water heaters for residences, restaurants, hotels, office buildings, laundries, car washes, and small businesses; boilers for hospitals, schools, hotels, and other large commercial buildings, as well as homes, apartments, and condominiums; and water treatment products comprising point-of-entry water softeners, well water solutions, and whole-home water filtration products, and point-of-use carbon and reverse osmosis products for residences, restaurants, hotels, and offices. It also provides commercial water treatment and filtration product; expansion tanks, commercial solar water heating systems, swimming pool and spa heaters, and related products and parts; and electric wall-hung, gas tankless, combi-boiler, and heat pump and solar water heaters. The company offers its products under the A. O. Smith, State, Lochinvar, Hague, Water-Right, Master Water, Atlantic Filter, and Water Tec brands. It distributes its products through independent wholesale plumbing distributors, as well as to retail channels consisting of hardware and home center chains, and manufacturer representative firms; and offers Aquasana branded products directly to consumers through e-commerce channels. A. O. Smith Corporation was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Astec Industries NASDAQ:ASTE

$45.15 -0.58 (-1.27%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$45.16 +0.01 (+0.03%)

As of 08/15/2025 07:51 PM Eastern

Astec Industries, Inc. designs, engineers, manufactures, and markets equipment and components used primarily in road building and related construction activities worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Infrastructure Solutions and Materials Solutions. The Infrastructure Solutions segment offers asphalt plants and related components, heaters, concrete dust control systems, asphalt pavers, vaporizers, concrete material handling systems, screeds, heat recovery units, paste back-fill plants, asphalt storage tanks, hot oil heaters, bagging plants, fuel storage tanks, industrial and asphalt burners and systems, custom batch plants, material transfer vehicles, soil stabilizing-reclaiming machinery, blower trucks and trailers, milling machines, soil remediation plants, wood chippers and grinders, pump trailers, concrete batch plants, control systems, liquid terminals, storage equipment and related parts, construction and retrofits, polymer plants, and concrete mixers, as well as engineering and environmental permitting services. This segment provides its products to asphalt producers; highway and heavy equipment contractors; utility contractors; sand and gravel producers; construction, demolition, recycle and crushing contractors; forestry and environmental recycling contractors; mine and quarry operators; port and inland terminal authorities; power stations; and domestic and foreign government agencies. The Materials Solutions segment designs and manufactures crushing equipment, mobile plants, bulk material handling solutions, vibrating equipment, screening equipment, electrical control centers, modular plants and systems, conveying equipment, plant automation products, portable plants, and mineral processing equipment, as well as offers consulting and engineering services. The company was incorporated in 1972 and is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Caterpillar NYSE:CAT

$407.41 -10.09 (-2.42%)

Closing price 08/15/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$407.93 +0.52 (+0.13%)

As of 08/15/2025 07:58 PM Eastern

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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