Caterpillar Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of CAT?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	29,930	0.0062%
State or Government	512,603	0.106%
Individual Insiders	922,189	0.191%
General Public	132,202,031	27.4%
Institutions	349,135,735	72.3%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 49.92% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
9.64%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	46,525,174	AR$17.3t	0.1%	0.25%
7.54%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	36,384,598	AR$13.5t	-0.63%	0.49%
7.33%	BlackRock, Inc.	35,411,116	AR$13.2t	-2.21%	0.21%
4.17%	Capital Research and Management Company	20,118,886	AR$7.5t	-8.23%	0.35%
3.67%	State Farm Insurance Companies, Asset Management Arm	17,734,370	AR$6.6t	0%	5.82%
2.12%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	10,213,455	AR$3.8t	0.66%	0.26%
1.85%	Fisher Asset Management, LLC	8,952,632	AR$3.3t	2.34%	1.33%
1.52%	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust	7,353,614	AR$2.7t	0%	6.84%
1.27%	Northern Trust Global Investments	6,122,853	AR$2.3t	-3.77%	0.34%
1.23%	Norges Bank Investment Management	5,915,124	AR$2.2t	0%	0.17%
1.14%	UBS Asset Management AG	5,486,594	AR$2.0t	0.58%	0.2%
0.96%	Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments	4,625,909	AR$1.7t	6.25%	0.19%
0.83%	FMR LLC	3,990,856	AR$1.5t	-11.7%	0.09%
0.72%	Legal & General Investment Management Limited	3,492,033	AR$1.3t	-9.59%	0.23%
0.67%	BNY Asset Management	3,241,378	AR$1.2t	-3.88%	0.23%
0.67%	Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.	3,232,679	AR$1.2t	0.23%	0.19%
0.64%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	3,098,956	AR$1.2t	0.95%	0.18%
0.61%	Eaton Vance Management	2,930,934	AR$1.1t	2.72%	0.25%
0.58%	Bank of America Corporation, Asset Management Arm	2,807,123	AR$1.0t	59.9%	0.3%
0.55%	Citigroup Inc.,Banking and Securities Investments	2,645,989	AR$984.0b	254%	0.7%
0.51%	Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P.	2,466,005	AR$917.1b	-1.17%	0.24%
0.46%	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund	2,236,486	AR$831.7b	1.69%	0.2%
0.44%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	2,117,763	AR$787.6b	0.42%	0.17%
0.42%	Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Banking Investments	2,036,884	AR$757.5b	0.09%	0.27%
0.39%	Amundi Asset Management SAS	1,860,608	AR$692.0b	-15.8%	0.14%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/19 17:32
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/19 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Caterpillar Inc. is covered by 68 analysts. 16 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
John Eade	Argus Research Company
William Grace	Avondale Partners
Mircea Dobre	Baird