Caterpillar Inc (CAT)

CAT on New York Consolidated

87.67USD
17 May 2013
Price Change (% chg)

$0.89 (+1.03%)
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$86.78
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$87.39
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$87.86
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Volume
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$99.70
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$78.25

CAT

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About

Caterpillar Inc. (Caterpillar) is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. It operates in two segments: Machinery and Power Systems, and Financial Products. Machinery and Power Systems represents a total of Construction... (more)

Overall

Beta: 1.88
Market Cap (Mil.): $57,641.71
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 657.48
Dividend: 0.52
Yield (%): 2.37

Financials

  CAT Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 11.80 11.81 24.30
EPS (TTM): 7.43 -- --
ROI: 8.72 16.34 8.56
ROE: 29.93 19.75 13.05
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China deal ends distraction, but not questions, for Caterpillar

CHICAGO - Caterpillar Inc's deal to cut the purchase price of a Chinese mining-equipment maker it bought last year ends an embarrassing episode that overshadowed the company's effort to expand in China and distracted its executives for months.

17 May 2013

Caterpillar says settles Siwei deal with cut in purchase price

- Caterpillar Inc and China-based Mining Machinery Ltd said on Thursday they have settled outstanding issues related to Caterpillar's acquisition of mining equipment firm ERA and its Siwei unit through a reduction in the purchase price.

17 May 2013

UPDATE 1-Caterpillar settles soured China deal with cut in purchase price

May 17 - Caterpillar Inc has reached a deal to cut $135 million from the price owed for a Chinese mining equipment maker, after accounting irregularities were discovered at the acquired company that forced Caterpillar to take a $580 million impairment charge.

17 May 2013

Caterpillar says settles Siwei deal with cut in purchase price

May 16 - Caterpillar Inc and China-based Mining Machinery Ltd said on Thursday they have settled outstanding issues related to Caterpillar's acquisition of mining equipment firm ERA and its Siwei unit through a reduction in the purchase price.

16 May 2013

Talks suspended between Caterpillar, Milwaukee workers' union

- Caterpillar Inc said Thursday that a bid by the United Steelworkers Union to re-open contract talks on behalf of workers in Milwaukee who make mining machinery had not resulted in a breakthrough and that no new meetings between the two sides were scheduled.

10 May 2013

Shares of Caterpillar look 'cheap': Barron's

- Shares of the world's largest construction and mining equipment maker Caterpillar Inc look poised to rise as the economic recovery picks up, financial newspaper Barron's said on Sunday.

05 May 2013

Analysis: Caterpillar cries "uncle" on mining; investors cry "buy"

CHICAGO - An odd thing happened on Monday when Caterpillar Inc , the world's largest maker of earth-moving equipment, posted disappointing profits and cut its full-year forecast, blaming weakness in the mining industry it bet on so heavily in recent years.

22 Apr 2013

PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - April 23

April 22 - Headlines Bumi shares halted amid payments concern () Bribery probe lifts Walmart directors' pay ()

22 Apr 2013

Caterpillar cries "uncle" on mining; investors cry "buy"

CHICAGO - An odd thing happened on Monday when Caterpillar Inc , the world's largest maker of earth-moving equipment, posted disappointing profits and cut its full-year forecast, blaming weakness in the mining industry it bet on so heavily in recent years.

22 Apr 2013

US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St ends up, buoyed by Microsoft, Caterpillar

NEW YORK, April 22 - U.S. stocks climbed on Monday, led by gains in the Nasdaq after reports that activist investor ValueAct Capital took a $2 billion stake in Microsoft , while a jump in the shares of Caterpillar helped buoy the Dow industrials.

22 Apr 2013

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