Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) open the trading on Thursday, with great promise as it jumped 0.11% to $569.78, before settling in for the price of $569.15 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, CAT posted a 52-week range of $267.30-$596.21.
The Industrials sector firm’s twelve-monthly sales growth has been 15.48% for the last half of the decade. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 15.48%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -15.31%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $467.98 million, simultaneously with a float of $467.02 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $266.65 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $489.08, while the 200-day Moving Average is $393.86.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry. Caterpillar Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.20%, in contrast to 71.82% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Nov 06 ’25, this organization’s Director bought 300 shares at the rate of 568.86, making the entire transaction reach 170,658 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 7,947. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 05 ’25, Company’s Chief Accounting Officer sold 1,200 for 572.22, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 686,664. This particular insider is now the holder of 1,323 in total.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 4.38 per share during the current fiscal year.
Caterpillar Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -15.31% and is forecasted to reach 22.13 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 6.39% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 15.48% 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 0.86. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $29.24, and its Beta score is 1.56. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 4.12. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 35.27.
In the same vein, CAT’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 19.49, a figure that is expected to reach 4.60 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 22.13 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Caterpillar Inc (CAT)
[Caterpillar Inc, CAT] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was poorer than the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 56.74% While, its Average True Range was 63.13.
Raw Stochastic average of Caterpillar Inc (CAT) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 88.95%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 69.27% 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 15.31 that was higher than 10.03 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
