Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.56M but it saw 3240318 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 194.18B USD, the company’s current market price of $412.88 came rising about 2.04 while comparing to the previous closing price of $404.64. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $418.50 and as low as $267.30. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $403.32 while lowest mark touched by it was $413.06.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Melius which upgraded the stock as “Buy” in its note to investors issued on July 09, 2025, recommending a price target of $500 for it. UBS also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $357.
Over the week, CAT’s stock price is moving 2.66% up while it is 15.64% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 23.03% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 13.82%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-30, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 4.9 while estimate for next year EPS is 18.62. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $15.77B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $62.51B and seeing the company making $65.59B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $16.14B for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Caterpillar Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 471.04M with 0.22% of that held by the insiders while 72.18% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 22.65% and return on equity (ROE) at 55.67%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 20.12 while having a 19.40 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.39. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 10.76 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.07. Its return on asset (ROA) is 11.78% on average.
