Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Caterpillar Inc. (CAT): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. provides construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in the United States and internationally. The 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; backhoe, compact track, skid steer, track-type, and wheel loaders; and related parts and work tools. Its Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, mining trucks, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wide-body trucks, wheel tractor scrapers and dozers, and landfill and soil compactors; machinery components, and wear and maintenance components; and technology products and services for fleet management, equipment management analytics, autonomous machine capabilities, safety services, and mining performance solutions.
Sector: Industrials · Industry: Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · United States · 118,000 employees · caterpillar.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) had a market capitalization of $374.15B, a trailing P/E of 35.1 (forward 25.1), a dividend yield of 0.81% and a beta of 1.59; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $416.44 – $1073.46 (89.1% over the year).
- Market cap
- $374.15B
- Enterprise value
- $407.00B
- Trailing P/E
- 35.1
- Forward P/E
- 25.1
- PEG ratio
- 1.40
- Price / book
- 19.29
- EPS (trailing)
- $23.20
- EPS (forward)
- $32.38
- Dividend yield
- 0.81%
- Payout ratio
- 26.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-07-20
- 52-week range
- $416.44 – $1073.46
- 52-week change
- 89.1%
- Beta
- 1.59
- Average volume
- 3.2M
- Shares outstanding
- 459.7M
- Short % of float
- 1.57%
- Profit margin
- 14.5%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) last closed at $805.00 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 43 (neutral territory), price -1.7% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -4.7%, MACD histogram 3.02.
Sentiment inputs: 77% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 86% bullish; Reddit mentions 0% over 24 hours; analyst consensus score 61/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 48 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of CAT; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 14 sells (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-09-01). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Joseph E. Creed (0B/14S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
CAT has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell CAT.
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