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Caterpillar, Inc.

799.37USD-0.14%
Today's range795.76 – 812.00
52-week range491.30 – 1,073.46

Key numbers

Market value
$367.96B

What the whole company is worth on the stock market.

P/E ratio
34.4

Price ÷ last year's profit per share. Higher means investors pay more for each $1 of profit.

Forward P/E
24.7

The same ratio using next year's expected profit.

Beta
1.58

How much the stock swings compared with the market: 1 moves like the market, 1.5 moves 50% more.

Dividend yield
0.81%

Yearly dividend as a share of the price.

What analysts say

28 analysts

Strong buy: 1Buy: 14Hold: 11Sell: 1Strong sell: 1
Average price target970.80 +21.45% vs today's price

Recent analyst actions

2024-10-14 · JP MorganOverweight
2024-10-14 · Morgan StanleyEqual-Weight → Underweight
2024-10-09 · CitigroupBuy
2024-10-09 · Truist SecuritiesBuy
2024-09-30 · B of A SecuritiesBuy
2024-08-19 · Evercore ISI GroupIn-Line

Financial health

Piotroski F-Score
7/9

Nine checks of profitability, debt and efficiency. 7–9 strong, 4–6 average, 0–3 weak.

Altman Z-Score
5.04 · Safe zone

A bankruptcy-risk score. Above 3 is the safe zone, 1.8–3 grey, below 1.8 distress.

Profitability and debt

Revenue, last 12 months$74.73B
Revenue growth+24.0%
Gross margin29.7%
Operating margin22.2%
Net margin14.5%
Return on equity57.0%
Free cash flow$5.05B
Debt to equity233%
Current ratio1.37

Short-term assets ÷ short-term debts. Below 1 means more due within a year than on hand.

Fair value (DCF model)

A discounted-cash-flow model: what future cash flows are worth today. It is a model, not a promise.

Pessimistic
247.30
Base case
293.87
Optimistic
329.60
Margin of safety
-63.2%

Compared with similar companies

The company next to its sector peers.

CompanyPriceP/EP/BMarket value
CATCaterpillar, Inc.799.3733.912.6$367.96B
GEGE Aerospace308.6435.617.4$319.78B
RTXRTX Corporation186.6632.43.8$250.64B
DEDeere & Company632.6134.44.8$167.42B
UNPUnion Pacific Corporation281.5722.67.4$165.35B
BABoeing Company (The)189.5061.831.2$150.46B
LMTLockheed Martin Corporation511.8818.716.7$117.61B
MMM3M Company160.8927.518.1$82.49B
UPSUnited Parcel Service, Inc.95.3417.65.2$80.46B
HONHoneywell International Inc.209.647.68.0$65.84B
Sector average29.212.5

About the company

SectorIndustrials
IndustryFarm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Employees118,000
CountryUnited States

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 Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, cold planers, compactors, forestry machines, material handlers, motor graders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, telehandlers, track-type tractors, and track and wheel excavators; backhoe, compact track, skid steer, track-type, and wheel loaders; and related parts and work tools. Its Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, mining trucks, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wide-body trucks, wheel tractor scrapers and dozers, and landfill and soil compactors; machinery components, and wear and maintenance components; and technology products a…

Data: Elcaro Core (Yahoo Finance, Binance, Treasury) · Information, not investment advice.