Caterpillar Inc (CAT) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $309.27, with 5.12 million shares of worth about $1.58 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -19.87% during that period and on April 30, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.61%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 477.93M shares, out of which, 476.91M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 4.56% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -6.22%. Year-to-date (YTD), CAT shares are showing a performance of -14.75% which decreased to -9.93% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $267.30 but also hit the highest price of $418.50 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Caterpillar Inc shares is 2.96 million. The stock is currently trading 3.94% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -4.13% for SMA50 and it goes to -13.62% lower than SMA200.
Caterpillar Inc (NYSE: CAT) currently have 477.93M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 72.16% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $147.81B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.35. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 14.01, while it has posted earnings per share of $22.07 in the same period. Its PEG reads 5.10 and has Quick Ratio of 0.89 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 2.00. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for CAT, volatility over the week remained 2.82% while standing at 4.35% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -12.42% while it is estimated to increase by 11.11% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 2.75% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 15.48% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Morgan Stanley on April 16, 2025 offering an Equal-weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $283 to it. Coverage by UBS stated Caterpillar Inc (CAT) stock as a Sell in their note to investors on April 07, 2025, suggesting a price target of $243 for the stock. On February 03, 2025, UBS Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 13, 2025, Evercore ISI Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $365. Stock get an Underperform rating from Evercore ISI on November 13, 2024.
