Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT): Price and Financial Metrics

CAT POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where CAT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 85.34% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CAT is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• CAT's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 28.18% of US stocks).

CAT Stock Summary

• CAT has a higher market value than 97.99% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $121,013,093,066.
• Caterpillar Inc's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, CAT is more volatile than only 8.2% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Caterpillar Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be DE, GE, SYK, ZTS, and MDT.
• CAT's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Caterpillar Inc's official web site, go to www.caterpillar.com.

CAT Valuation Summary

• CAT's price/earnings ratio is 26.3; this is 0.96% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• CAT's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 1.6 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, CAT's price/sales ratio has gone up 1.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CAT.

CAT Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 59.23%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 26.41%.
• The year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 2.95%.

Over the past 34 months, CAT's revenue has gone down $4,358,000,000.

The table below shows CAT's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	50,971	7,198	6,489
2021-09-30	48,408	7,858	5,149
2021-06-30	45,892	7,852	4,391
2021-03-31	43,000	7,125	3,436
2020-12-31	41,748	6,327	2,998
2020-09-30	43,657	6,689	3,316

CAT's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• CAT has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 55.35% of graded US stocks.
• CAT's asset turnover comes in at 0.578 -- ranking 72nd of 104 Machinery stocks.
• MTW, GRC, and PPIH are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CAT.

The table below shows CAT's key quality metrics over time.