1CAT Stock Overview

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

1CAT fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	5/6
Future Growth	3/6
Past Performance	4/6
Financial Health	5/6
Dividends	4/6

Rewards

Trading at 47.4% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 3.31% per year

Earnings grew by 4.4% over the past year

Trading at good value compared to peers and industry

Risk Analysis

Shares are highly illiquid

Has a high level of debt

Significant insider selling over the past 3 months

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Caterpillar
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	US$329.00
52 Week High	US$359.00
52 Week Low	US$294.50
Beta	1.11
1 Month Change	n/a
3 Month Change	n/a
1 Year Change	10.03%
3 Year Change	98.55%
5 Year Change	199.09%
Change since IPO	153.08%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	1CAT	IT Machinery	IT Market
7D	-2.4%	-1.5%	-0.1%
1Y	10.0%	-0.7%	15.2%

Return vs Industry: 1CAT exceeded the Italian Machinery industry which returned -0.7% over the past year.

Return vs Market: 1CAT underperformed the Italian Market which returned 15.2% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is 1CAT's price volatile compared to industry and market?
1CAT volatility
1CAT Average Weekly Movement	n/a
Machinery Industry Average Movement	4.9%
Market Average Movement	4.2%
10% most volatile stocks in IT Market	7.5%
10% least volatile stocks in IT Market	2.5%

Stable Share Price: 1CAT's share price has been volatile over the past 3 months compared to the Italian market.

Volatility Over Time: Insufficient data to determine 1CAT's volatility change over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1925	112,900	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 the United States and internationally. Its 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; 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, wide-body 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?
1CAT fundamental statistics
Market cap	€159.38b
Earnings (TTM)	€10.31b
Revenue (TTM)	€61.90b

15.5x

P/E Ratio

2.6x

P/S Ratio

Is 1CAT overvalued?

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
1CAT income statement (TTM)
Revenue	US$64.81b
Cost of Revenue	US$40.20b
Gross Profit	US$21.09b
Other Expenses	US$10.30b
Earnings	US$10.79b

Last Reported Earnings

Dec 31, 2024

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)	22.58
Gross Margin	32.54%
Net Profit Margin	16.65%
Debt/Equity Ratio	196.7%

How did 1CAT perform over the long term?

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Dividends

1.6%

Current Dividend Yield

25%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/02/21 19:40
End of Day Share Price	2025/02/21 00:00
Earnings	2024/12/31
Annual Earnings	2024/12/31

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.

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Analyst Sources

Caterpillar Inc. is covered by 66 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

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