No matter how cynical the overall market is, Caterpillar Inc (CAT) performance over the last week is recorded -2.72%

On Tuesday, Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) was -0.55% drop from the session before settling in for the closing price of $384.46. A 52-week range for CAT has been $241.81 – $418.50.

During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Industrials Sector giant was 5.49%. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 2.91%. With a float of $481.83 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $499.38 million.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 113200 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 35.91%, operating margin of 20.61%, and the pretax margin is 20.37%.

Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Caterpillar Inc stocks. The insider ownership of Caterpillar Inc is 0.20%, while institutional ownership is 72.14%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 15 ’24, was worth 766. In this transaction Director of this company sold 2 shares at a rate of $383.20, taking the stock ownership to the 10,846 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 07 ’24, when Company’s Group President sold 12,657 for $410.25, making the entire transaction worth $5,192,561. This insider now owns 71,107 shares in total.

Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Recent Fiscal highlights

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 2.91% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 9.51% during the next five years compared to 14.42% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Trading Performance Indicators

You can see what Caterpillar Inc (CAT) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted a quick ratio of 0.86. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.81. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 19.20.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 21.57, a number that is poised to hit 5.06 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 22.06 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Caterpillar Inc (CAT)

Looking closely at Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT), its last 5-days average volume was 1.79 million, which is a drop from its year-to-date volume of 2.61 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.17%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 8.74.

During the past 100 days, Caterpillar Inc’s (CAT) raw stochastic average was set at 67.55%, which indicates a significant increase from 20.94% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 42.11% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 29.58% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $383.82, while its 200-day Moving Average is $352.20. However, in the short run, Caterpillar Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $384.38. Second resistance stands at $386.42. The third major resistance level sits at $389.60. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $379.16, it is likely to go to the next support level at $375.98. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $373.94.

Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Key Stats

There are 482,802K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 184.59 billion. As of now, sales total 67,060 M while income totals 10,335 M. Its latest quarter income was 16,106 M while its last quarter net income were 2,464 M.