CAT · Industrials
What a holder would want to know before buying CAT: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 63% above the lowest point of the past year and 25% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 57% of days and more expensive on 43%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 96% of days.
Right at its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 6 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 46%; the longest took 2.8 years to get back to its peak. 5 of 6 have recovered so far.
It is in one now: 25% below the Jun 2026 peak.
Caterpillar Inc. · Industrials · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · a mega-cap worth $367.96B
Caterpillar Inc. provides construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in the United States and internationally. The…
revenue profit
Sales of $67.59B in 2025, with $8.88B of profit. Sales grew in 2 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 15 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Would need about 8.9 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.
You pay $34 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $25 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays 0.82% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Jul 20.
28 analysts: 15 say buy, 11 hold, 2 sell. Their average 12-month target is $970.80 (range $575.00–$1,155.00).
Insiders made 1 purchase and 10 sales in the last 6 months.
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