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

CAT POWR Grades

• Growth is the dimension where CAT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 75.76% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CAT is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 163 days.
• CAT's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 53.2% of US stocks).

CAT Stock Summary

• CAT has a higher market value than 97.94% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $117,184,178,808.
• The capital turnover (annual revenue relative to shareholder's equity) for CAT is 2.9 -- better than 83.46% of US stocks.
• CAT's went public 36.08 years ago, making it older than 92.74% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Caterpillar Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be GSK, DE, AXP, SNY, and DEO.
• Visit CAT's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's 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 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 17.42%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 38.32%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 35.81%.

Over the past 49 months, CAT's revenue has gone up $6,268,000,000.

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
2021-09-30	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
2020-06-30	46,534	5,724	4,142

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.