Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) started the day on Wednesday, with a price increase of 0.07% at $363.52, before settling in for the price of $363.25 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, CAT posted a 52-week range of $204.04-$382.01.
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The Industrials sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 5.49% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 14.42%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 0.11%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $499.38 million, simultaneously with a float of $498.38 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $181.53 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $348.21, while the 200-day Moving Average is $291.45.
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry. Caterpillar Inc.’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.20%, in contrast to 72.34% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Feb 28 ’24, this organization’s Group President sold 4,575 shares at the rate of 329.80, making the entire transaction reach 1,508,835 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 23,474. Preceding that transaction, on Feb 23 ’24, Company’s Director bought 350 for 323.37, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 113,180. This particular insider is now the holder of 5,238 in total.
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Earnings and Revenue Records
Caterpillar Inc.’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 0.11% and is forecasted to reach 22.52 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 12.66% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 14.42% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Caterpillar Inc. (CAT). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.87. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 8.21. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $18.05, and its Beta score is 1.16. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.71. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 18.54.
In the same vein, CAT’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 20.14, a figure that is expected to reach 5.14 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 22.52 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Caterpillar Inc. (CAT)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), its last 5-days Average volume was 2.45 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 2.44 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 41.76% While, its Average True Range was 8.56.
Raw Stochastic average of Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 86.22%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 38.10% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 17.69% that was lower than 22.37% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
