A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) stock price up 0.12% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $433.7. CAT’s price has ranged from $267.30 to $441.15 over the past 52 weeks.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Industrials Sector giant was 15.48%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -14.17%. With a float of $469.30 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $470.31 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 112900 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 35.49%, operating margin of 19.59%, and the pretax margin is 19.62%.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry. The insider ownership of Caterpillar Inc is 0.22%, while institutional ownership is 71.75%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 14 ’25, was worth 985,311. Before that another transaction happened on May 07 ’25, when Company’s Director bought 375 for $320.70, making the entire transaction worth $120,262. This insider now owns 6,653 shares in total.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -14.17% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 3.76% during the next five years compared to 15.48% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Caterpillar Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.81. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.23. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 26.39.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 19.66, a number that is poised to hit 4.75 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 21.44 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 3.94 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 2.73 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 63.45%.
During the past 100 days, Caterpillar Inc’s (CAT) raw stochastic average was set at 96.02%, which indicates a significant increase from 77.90% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 8.17 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 7.78 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $387.76, while its 200-day Moving Average is $364.57.
