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Caterpillar Inc

NYSE: CAT Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
$647.39
▼ $65.99 (−9.25%) today
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CAT at a Glance

Valuation
Market cap
$297.6B
P/E ratio
27.9
Profitability
Revenue (TTM)
$74.7B
Profit margin
14.5%
EPS (TTM)
$23.23
Price
52-week range
$533 – $1,069
24/7 target
$817.11
Street target
$926.91
Earnings
Next report
Jan 27, 2027
Q3 2026 EPS
$7.20
vs. $7.03 est.
+2.4%

Headquartered in Irving, TX Fiscal year ends December NYSE: CAT caterpillar.com

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives, which it sells mostly through a global network of independent dealers and OEMs. 2025 sales and revenues were $67.6 billion. The company reports three primary segments plus a finance arm:
- Power & Energy (the largest by sales) supplies reciprocating engines, generator sets, turbines, centrifugal gas compressors and related services. It serves Power Generation, including fast-growing data center demand, as well as Oil and Gas and Industrial applications, including marine and on-highway engine product support.
- Construction Industries makes machines for infrastructure and building construction, including excavators, loaders, dozers, motor graders, pavers and compact equipment.
- Resource Industries serves mining, heavy construction and quarry & aggregates customers with large trucks, shovels, drills and autonomy and fleet-management technology. After a realignment, it now also includes the Rail business (locomotives and rail services).
- Financial Products, primarily Cat Financial and Caterpillar Insurance Holdings, provides financing and insurance to customers and dealers. Updated

Latest Activity

Two blue chips are opening at record-setting earnings gaps, with 10.93% the line that would make Caterpillar's drop the worst in its history.

Along with Alphabet $GOOGL set for its biggest gap down on earnings in history, Caterpillar $CAT is set to have its biggest gap down on earnings since July 2002. If it opens down more than 10.93%, it will be its biggest ever. Some historic drops for big blue chips this morning. https://t.co/PMpBoUlaMj
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CATCaterpillar
Q3 2026
EPS
$7.20
est $7.03+2.4%
Revenue
$20.68B
est $20.69B-0.1%

Data centers are now a Caterpillar story: Power Generation sales climbed 30% on turbines and large reciprocating engines, helping drive a fourth straight quarterly earnings beat. Revenue landed essentially in line with estimates, and management is pointing to a record backlog heading into the fourth quarter.

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Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/7/26

  • Cramer splits the market in two: credit-dependent names like Caterpillar, Ford and IBM versus AI borrowers that price near Treasuries
  • SpaceX seeking $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips at triple-B rating, while Paramount Skydance bondholders got hit at 8%
  • Oracle flagged as the one data-center name still exposed to credit market scrutiny
  • Caller advice: swap Western Digital into cheaper Micron; Vertiv the pick after GE Vernova on data center infrastructure

AI and data-center names no longer trade off Treasury auctions, so a weak auction hits the industrial and consumer side of your book while chip and power names sail through, with Oracle the named exception. On the calls, he pushed Micron over Western Digital and ranked Vertiv right behind GE Vernova on infrastructure.

CATCaterpillar
Regular session
$807.34
-4.38%open $844.35

A 4.4% intraday slide to $807.34 is a rare one-day drawdown for a $371 billion industrial bellwether, erasing roughly $37 off the open. Keep an eye on whether it holds into the close.

Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/2/26

  • 29,000 September jobs eased rate-hike fears; G7 releasing 100 million barrels capped oil's rally
  • PepsiCo called uninvestable into Thursday earnings: down 12% this year while Coca-Cola is up 22.5%
  • Nvidia compute scarcity framed as the real money-maker behind data center and Starlink demand
  • Caller verdicts on Applied Materials, Simon Property Group, Goldman Sachs and Duke Energy at a 3.8% yield

A 4.7% PepsiCo yield loses to the 10-year, so any bounce off Thursday's earnings report is just a trade. Cramer stays long AI compute while telling snack and beer holders the consumer shift is structural.

Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 10/1/26

  • Cramer still buys Palantir at $190 after the stock gained 60% in Q3 and stalled short of his $250 target
  • Salesforce, up 46.5%, called the better SaaS-apocalypse rebound than Veeva at 30 times earnings
  • Caterpillar's 24% Q3 profit taking framed as a buying chance on data center engine demand
  • IBM, down 22% on its miss, gets the wait-a-quarter rule; Home Depot stays hostage to rates

Cramer wants to add software as the bounce-back trade and the beaten-down industrial names tied to data center power. He also warns that rising rates are the real threat heading into earnings season in a couple of weeks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Caterpillar do?

Caterpillar Inc. manufactures construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives, which it sells mostly through a global network of independent dealers and OEMs. 2025 sales and revenues were $67.6 billion.

What is the CAT stock price target?

24/7 Wall St.'s 12-month price target for CAT is $817.11, rated Buy. The Wall Street consensus target is $926.91. CAT price prediction →