Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) kicked off on Friday, up 0.09% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $553.55. Over the past 52 weeks, CAT has traded in a range of $267.30-$596.21.
Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales surged by 15.48% over the last five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded -15.09%. With a float of $466.99 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $467.98 million.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Insider Activity
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 73.64%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 11 ’25, was worth 6,034,490. In this transaction Group President of this company sold 10,707 shares at a rate of $563.60, taking the stock ownership to the 8,649 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 10 ’25, when Company’s Group President sold 8,184 for $570.18, making the entire transaction worth $4,666,353. This insider now owns 41,512 shares in total.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Earnings and Forecasts
In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 12/31/2024, the organization reported 5.14 earnings per share (EPS), higher than consensus estimate (set at 5.03) by 0.11. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 4.36 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -15.09% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 6.22% 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 0.86. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.01. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 34.30.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 19.49, a number that is poised to hit 4.65 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 22.12 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Caterpillar Inc (CAT)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Caterpillar Inc, CAT], we can find that recorded value of 2.44 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 2.8 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 39.82%.
During the past 100 days, Caterpillar Inc’s (CAT) raw stochastic average was set at 81.10%, which indicates a significant increase from 43.41% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 18.17 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 10.63 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $506.17, while its 200-day Moving Average is $398.94. Now, the first resistance to watch is $561.23. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $568.42. The third major resistance level sits at $578.54. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $543.92, it is likely to go to the next support level at $533.80. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $526.61.
Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 259.27 billion has total of 467,980K 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 17,638 M and last quarter income was 2,300 M.
