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NYSE · US · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery

CAT Caterpillar

Recip gensets and Solar Turbines for onsite power

Tight but sold off Its supply chain is tightening but the stock is below its 50-day average — price and fundamentals disagree. (automatic: supply-chain trend + price vs 50-day average)
Last close (delayed) · 2026-10-30
$622.8
−3.81% today
1W
−9.1%
1M
−24.5%
3M
−24.8%
YTD
+9.6%
1Y
+7.7%
Off 52w high
−41.3%
Next earnings (est.): 2027-01-28
Market cap$286B
P/E (trailing)26.8Forward 19.3
EV / sales4.3×EV/EBITDA 19.4×
Revenue (TTM)$77.77BGrowth 17.3% y/y
Margins30.3%gross · op 20.4%
Free cash flow$4.95BCash $7.93B · debt $45.20B
Analyst target$917.7+47.4% upside · 26 analysts · buy
Riskβ —Short 1.8% of float · yield 1.01%

Fundamentals from public market data, refreshed daily (2026-10-30 21:21 UTC). Figures in reporting currency.

CAT · price with what management and the data said

Supply tighteningBeat / raiseMiss / cutData releaseEasing Hover a numbered marker for details · dashed lines = 50- and 200-day averages

Timeline: management commentary, data & earnings

8 events
  1. 8
    2026-10-29EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 7.2 vs 7.03 expected (+2.4% surprise).

  2. 7
    2026-08-04EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 8.17 vs 6.2 expected (+31.8% surprise).

  3. 6
    2026-04-30EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 5.54 vs 4.64 expected (+19.3% surprise).

  4. 5
    2026-01-29EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 5.16 vs 4.71 expected (+9.5% surprise).

  5. 4
    2025-10-29EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 4.95 vs 4.52 expected (+9.4% surprise).

  6. 3
    2025-08-05EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS 4.72 vs 4.9 expected (-3.7% surprise).

  7. 2
    2025-04-30EarningsMiss / cut

    Reported EPS 4.25 vs 4.34 expected (-2.2% surprise).

  8. 1
    2025-01-30EarningsBeat / raise

    Reported EPS 5.14 vs 5.03 expected (+2.2% surprise).

Earnings history

EPS vs expectations
DateExpected EPSReported EPSSurprise
2026-10-297.037.2+2.4%
2026-08-046.28.17+31.8%
2026-04-304.645.54+19.3%
2026-01-294.715.16+9.5%
2025-10-294.524.95+9.4%
2025-08-054.94.72−3.7%
2025-04-304.344.25−2.2%
2025-01-305.035.14+2.2%
2024-10-305.355.17−3.4%
2024-08-065.545.99+8.1%
2024-04-255.135.6+9.1%
2024-02-054.755.23+10.1%
2023-10-314.795.52+15.2%
2023-08-014.585.55+21.2%
2023-04-273.794.91+29.5%
2023-01-314.033.86−4.2%
2022-10-273.173.95+24.8%
2022-08-023.023.18+5.4%
2022-04-282.62.88+10.6%
2022-01-282.262.69+18.9%
2021-10-282.22.66+20.8%
2021-07-302.412.6+8.0%
2021-04-291.942.87+48.0%
2021-01-291.492.12+42.5%

About Caterpillar

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Caterpillar Inc. provides construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in the United States and internationally. The Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, cold planers, compactors, forestry machines, material handlers, motor graders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, telehandlers, track-type tractors, and track and wheel excavators; backhoe, compact track, skid steer, track-type, and wheel loaders; and related parts and work tools. Its Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, mining trucks, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wide-body trucks, wheel tractor scrapers and dozers, and landfill and soil compactors; machinery components, and wear and maintenance components; and technology products a…

118,000 employees · Irving, United States

Three OEMs make nearly all heavy-duty gas turbines. Slot reservations stretch years out and set the pace for new firm generation.

Gas supply→Turbine→Plant→Grid

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if turbine slot reservations are cancelled or pricing per kW falls.

When the grid can't deliver in time, campuses build their own: recip engines, fuel cells and aeroderivatives as a bridge — at higher cost per MWh.

Gas→Recip / fuel cell→Microgrid→Campus

What would prove us wrong. Weakens if interconnection speeds up enough that onsite power loses its time-to-power premium.

Peers at the same bottleneck

Who else supplies this

StockRoleLast1D1MYTDTrend
GEV
GE Vernova
Gas turbines, grid equipment and SMRs $857.9−3.38%−13.1%+31.6%
ENR.DE
Siemens Energy
Gas turbines and grid technology €126.9−6.87%−10.9%+5.9%
7011.T
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Heavy-duty gas turbines ¥3,413.0−2.46%−11.1%−10.5%
BE
Bloom Energy
Fuel cells for onsite data-centre power $203.2−8.61%−26.8%+133.8%
CMI
Cummins
Gensets and engines for backup and prime power $500.1−3.46%−3.3%−1.0%
GNRC
Generac
Large gensets for data centres $197.9−2.67%−4.8%+45.1%
WRT1V.HE
Wärtsilä
Recip engine power plants €25.64−3.39%−8.9%−12.8%

Not investment advice. Prices delayed and in local currency. Quotes in "double quotes" are verbatim as reported by the linked source; other commentary is our paraphrase. Earnings dates are estimates.