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

CAT POWR Grades

• CAT scores best on the Growth dimension, with a Growth rank ahead of 83.27% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for CAT is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 48 weeks.
• CAT's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 49.68% of US stocks).

CAT Stock Summary

• CAT has a market capitalization of $107,643,839,842 -- more than approximately 97.6% of US stocks.
• With a one year PEG ratio of 888.25, Caterpillar Inc is expected to have a higher PEG ratio (a measure of how expensive a stock is relative to its expected earnings growth) than 96.61% of US stocks.
• CAT's went public 35.75 years ago, making it older than 92.65% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Caterpillar Inc are GE, ZTS, DE, SYK, and MMM.
• 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 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 35.81%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 14.42%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 59.23%.

CAT's revenue has moved down $4,333,000,000 over the prior 70 months.

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
2021-06-30	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
2020-03-31	50,969	6,921	5,304

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 56.41% of graded US stocks.
• CAT's asset turnover comes in at 0.578 -- ranking 71st of 104 Machinery stocks.
• MTW, ETN, and RXN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with CAT.

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