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

CAT POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where CAT ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 89.57% of US stocks.
• CAT's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 179 days.
• CAT ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 60th percentile.

CAT Stock Summary

• CAT has a higher market value than 98.36% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $120,891,093,166.
• CATERPILLAR INC's capital turnover -- a measure of revenue relative to shareholder's equity -- is better than 86.08% of US listed stocks.
• CAT's went public 36.94 years ago, making it older than 93.49% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to CATERPILLAR INC are DE, MDT, SNY, GE, and IBM.
• 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

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, CAT's price/sales ratio is 10% higher, now standing at 2.2.
• CAT's EV/EBIT ratio has moved down 12.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for CAT.

CAT Growth Metrics

Its 4 year price growth rate is now at 8.74%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -8.45%.
• The 5 year price growth rate now stands at 8.74%.

Over the past 52 months, CAT's revenue has gone up $5.449e+09.

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
2022-09-30	56,628	6,439	7,371
2022-06-30	54,031	5,698	6,756
2022-03-31	52,673	5,583	6,496
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

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.