Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.75% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $362.49.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $359.80. The PE ratio was 17.66 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $418.50, and the low was $267.30. On the whole, CAT has fluctuated by 3.72% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Caterpillar Inc currently standing at about $170.49 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Apr-30. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 5.64, with its dividend yield at 1.56%.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 6.54, with the price of CAT currently trading nearly 2.47% and 9.26% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 63.30, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.35% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.16%. Furthermore, Caterpillar Inc (CAT)’s beta value is 1.37, and its average true range (ATR) is 6.71.
A comparison of Caterpillar Inc (CAT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. CAT showed an intraday change of 0.75% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 12.44%%.
Data on historical trading for Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 2.80 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 471.04 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.22% of Caterpillar Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 71.74% of the company’s shares. The stock has fallen by -0.07% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the CAT stock heading into the next quarter.
