CAT (CAT) Stock

About CAT

CAT is led by CEO Joseph E. Creed, employs 112,900 people, headquartered in Irving, US, publicly traded since 1929.

CAT stock trades at $779.16 with a market capitalization of $358.91B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 35.22, price-to-book of 19.51, price-to-sales of 5.07. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $410.52 and $1073.46, and currently trades 27.4% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 0.79%.

On profitability, CAT generates a return on equity (ROE) of 54.14% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 20.84%, an operating margin of 16.56%, a net profit margin of 14.50%.

In its most recent fiscal year, CAT reported annual revenue of $67.6B, net profit of $8.9B, revenue has compounded at 10.1% a year over the last five years, profit at 24.2% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.33 — a leveraged balance sheet worth monitoring, a current ratio of 1.35, total assets of $98.6B, $10.0B in cash and equivalents.

CAT has an average daily trading volume of 3,032,740 shares, a beta of 1.60 (more volatile than the overall market).