CATR Stock Overview

Manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in worldwide. More details

CATR fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	5/6
Future Growth	2/6
Past Performance	4/6
Financial Health	5/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Trading at 36.3% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 4.15% per year

Earnings grew by 17.2% over the past year

Trading at good value compared to peers and industry

Risk Analysis

Has a high level of debt

My Notes

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Caterpillar Inc. Competitors

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Caterpillar
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$26.71
52 Week High	US$31.01
52 Week Low	US$20.83
Beta	1.1
1 Month Change	-5.78%
3 Month Change	-3.75%
1 Year Change	n/a
3 Year Change	n/a
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	21.63%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	CATR	CA Machinery	CA Market
7D	-5.3%	-4.3%	-3.7%
1Y	n/a	-15.6%	15.0%

Return vs Industry: Insufficient data to determine how CATR performed against the Canadian Machinery industry.

Return vs Market: Insufficient data to determine how CATR performed against the Canadian Market.

Price Volatility

Is CATR's price volatile compared to industry and market?
CATR volatility
CATR Average Weekly Movement	4.3%
Machinery Industry Average Movement	8.7%
Market Average Movement	8.2%
10% most volatile stocks in CA Market	17.6%
10% least volatile stocks in CA Market	2.9%

Stable Share Price: CATR has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the Canadian market.

Volatility Over Time: CATR's weekly volatility (4%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1925	113,200	Jim Umpleby	www.caterpillar.com

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in worldwide. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, road reclaimers, forestry machines, cold planers, material handlers, track-type tractors, excavators, telehandlers, motor graders, and pipelayers; compact track, wheel, track-type, backhoe, and skid steer loaders; and related parts and tools. The company’s Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, tractors, mining trucks, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wheel tractor scrapers and dozers, fleet management products, landfill and soil compactors, machinery components, autonomous ready vehicles and solutions, work tools, and safety services and mining performance solutions, as well as related parts and services.

Caterpillar Inc. Fundamentals Summary

How do Caterpillar's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
CATR fundamental statistics
Market cap	CA$252.85b
Earnings (TTM)	CA$15.37b
Revenue (TTM)	CA$94.50b

16.3x

P/E Ratio

2.6x

P/S Ratio

Is CATR overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
CATR income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$65.66b
Cost of Revenue	US$40.89b
Gross Profit	US$21.36b
Other Expenses	US$10.68b
Earnings	US$10.68b

Last Reported Earnings

Sep 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	22.11
Gross Margin	32.53%
Net Profit Margin	16.26%
Debt/Equity Ratio	195.3%

How did CATR perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Dividends

1.6%

Current Dividend Yield

25%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/19 20:05
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/19 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

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

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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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