Caterpillar
$816.98Change from previous close: +0.76%Absolute change: +$6.19
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $375.85B
- Enterprise value
- $411.9B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 35.3
- Forward P/E
- 25.3
- PEG
- 1.45
- Price/book
- 19.4
- Price/sales
- 5.03
- EV/EBITDA
- 25.3
- EV/revenue
- 5.51
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 29.7%
- Operating margin
- 22.2%
- Net margin
- 14.5%
- ROE
- 57.0%
- ROA
- 9.0%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 24.0%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 68.2%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $5.94B
- Total debt
- $45.15B
- Debt/equity
- 2.33
- Current ratio
- 1.37
- Quick ratio
- 0.78
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $6.52
- Dividend yield
- 0.8%
- Payout ratio
- 26.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- July 20, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $975.61
- Median price target
- $980.50
- High price target
- $1,225.00
- Low price target
- $575.00
- Number of analysts
- 26
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $32.38
- EPS estimate, current year
- $27.19
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 1.59
- Average volume
- 2.7M
- Shares outstanding
- 459.67M
- Float
- 458.22M
- Institutional ownership
- 73.5%
- Insider ownership
- 0.2%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 2.0%
- Short ratio (days)
- 3.54