How to buy Caterpillar (CAT) stocks

Learn how to easily invest in Caterpillar stocks.

Caterpillar is a farm & heavy construction machinery business based in the US. Caterpillar shares (CAT.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $385.73 – a decrease of 0.7% over the previous day. Caterpillar employs 113,200 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $66.4 billion.

How to buy shares in Caterpillar

  1. Open a brokerage account. Choose from our top broker picks or compare brokers in depth. Then, complete an application.
  2. Fund your account. Add money to your account via bank transfer, debit card or credit card.
  3. Search the platform by ticker symbol. CAT in this case.
  4. Choose an order type. Place a market order or limit order with your preferred number of shares or dollar amount.
  5. Submit the order. It's that simple.
The whole process can take as little as 15 minutes. You'll need a smartphone or computer, an internet connection, your passport or driving licence and a means of payment.

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Is it a good time to buy Caterpillar stock?

Review technicals and fundamentals to help you determine if now's a good time for you to invest.

Technical analysis

View Caterpillar's price performance, share price volatility, historical data and technicals.

Use our graph to track the performance of CAT stock over time.

Historical closes compared with the last close of $385.73

1 week (2024-11-13) -1.87%
1 month (2024-10-20) 0.31%
3 months (2024-08-20) 10.45%
6 months (2024-05-20) 13.20%
1 year (2023-11-20) 60.01%
2 years (2022-11-20) 105.27%
3 years (2021-11-20) 102.44%
5 years (2019-11-20) 208.09%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Caterpillar under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Caterpillar P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA.

Caterpillar's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 18x. In other words, Caterpillar's stocks trade at around 18x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Caterpillar's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.0133. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Caterpillar's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Caterpillar's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $16.2 billion ($1 CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of Caterpillar's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

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