Caterpillar Inc (CAT) with a beta value of 1.36 appears to be a promising investment opportunity.

Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) kicked off on Tuesday, down -1.57% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $298.12. Over the past 52 weeks, CAT has traded in a range of $267.30-$418.50.

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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Industrials sector was 5.16%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -9.02%. With a float of $476.91 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $477.93 million.

Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 112900 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 36.06%, operating margin of 20.56%, and the pretax margin is 20.63%.

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

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry. The insider ownership of Caterpillar Inc is 0.21%, while institutional ownership is 72.30%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 18 ’25, was worth 860,148. In this transaction Group President of this company sold 2,425 shares at a rate of $354.70, taking the stock ownership to the 6,275 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 18 ’25, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 2,425 for $354.70, making the entire transaction worth $860,137.

Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Recent Fiscal highlights

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -9.02% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 3.28% during the next five years compared to 15.48% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Caterpillar Inc’s (CAT) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.89. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.16. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 15.90.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 22.07, a number that is poised to hit 4.35 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 22.14 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Caterpillar Inc (CAT)

Compared to the last year’s volume of 2.81 million, its volume of 4.03 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 42.68%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 13.87.

During the past 100 days, Caterpillar Inc’s (CAT) raw stochastic average was set at 18.04%, which indicates a significant decrease from 34.98% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 64.81% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 33.97% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $334.51, while its 200-day Moving Average is $359.58. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $299.31 in the near term. At $305.19, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $308.65. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $289.97, it is likely to go to the next support level at $286.51. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $280.63.

Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 140.24 billion has total of 477,932K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 64,809 M in contrast with the sum of 10,792 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 16,215 M and last quarter income was 2,791 M.