How is Caterpillar (CAT) doing?

Caterpillar is a company in the agricultural, machinery industry, based in Irving, TX, worth $368.7B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Strong

Caterpillar shares are up 59% over the past year, 38 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Bellwether. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 93rd percentile on market beat, the 67th on staying power and the 65th on business growth. It appears on 6 of our dashboards.

$800.47+59% in a yearWorth $368.7B

Compare with DE · CNH · CMI · PCAR · URI

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

CAT against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. Caterpillar +59%, the S&P 500 +16%.

CATS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Bellwether

BeatingSteadyGrowingBought

Beating the market, steadily, with a growing business and buyers adding. Everything is lined up.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Bellwether this month; Rolling Over before that.

Also Bellwether (93 in all): NDSN · NWL · AME · SNDK · LITE · MU

EmbracedToppingAccumulatingRejectedStable rankBellwetherDistribution TopCoiled SpringWallflowerHolding rankFaith TradeRolling OverBottom FishedSleepy StapleUnsteady rankHot HandChurning WinnerTurning UpShow-Me GrowerBouncy rankSpeculative PopExhausted RallyFalling KnifeBroken Year

How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Industrials / SMID, 133 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Broad industrial and small/mid-cap cyclicals — the economy beta.

CAT, past year+59%6 of 133 in the group

Rest of the group+10%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

Caterpillar is +59% over the past year, against +10% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 6th of 133 in Industrials / SMID.

CATRest of the group

Best in the groupAVT Avnet+92%ARW Arrow Electronics+89%LFUS Littelfuse+65%

Worst in the groupGPK Graphic Packaging−56%APTV Aptiv−48%THO Thor Industries−39%

Its closest rivalsDE Deere &+35%CNH CNH Industrial+7%CMI Cummins+20%

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How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual Caterpillar typically moves 3.3% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings more than 58% of large US stocks.

Typical day3.3%about $26.30 a share

Its usual3.3%about usual, 1.0× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5003.0×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±6.6%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−27%now 25% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks87%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 1.0

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 3.34%

CAT on our dashboards

Every question where Caterpillar appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with CAT highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
What moved this week? What’s leading	72Typical	54 of 60	This week −5.3% · × normal week 0.9× · 1M −1%
Which companies are worth the most? What’s leading	–	35 of 50	Market value $368.7B · Places, 1Y +2 · Value, 1Y +59%
Which stocks show persistent price growth and business growth? Leading stocks	74Strong	38 of 60	Pressure 60 · 1Y +59%
Who is beating its rivals? Leading stocks	92Ahead	41 of 60	3M −10 pts · 1Y +57 pts · Rivals DE, CNH, CMI
Who is outgrowing its rivals? Business quality	91Outgrowing	45 of 60	Revenue, 1Y +18% · Rivals +3% · Lead +15 pts
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	91Decades	36 of 60	Years raised 32 years · Growth, 5Y +7% a yr · Yield 0.8%

Go deeper on Stox

CAT’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see CAT’s full profile on Stox.

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