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NYSE:CAT

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Price: 816.035 USD 0.99% Market Closed
Market Cap: $375.9B

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Over the past 5 Years, dividends per share for CAT have increased by 47%.
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Price Appreciation

CAT Price
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Annual Price Range
816.035
52w Low
463.72
52w High
1 064.9
Price Metrics
Average Annual Return 33.92%
Standard Deviation of Annual Returns 16.07%
Max Drawdown -30%
Shares Statistics
Market Capitalization 372.2B USD
Shares Outstanding 460 590 000
Percentage of Shares Shorted 2.19%

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Stock Splits

CAT's latest stock split occurred on Jul 14, 2005

The company executed a 2-for-1 stock split, meaning that for every share held, investors received 2 new shares.

Before the split, CAT traded at 99.84 per share. Afterward, the share price was about 31.0377.

The adjusted shares began trading on Jul 14, 2005. This was stock split number 4 in CAT's history, following the previous one in Jul 14, 1997.

Pre-Split Price
30.3804 99.84
Post-Split Price
31.0377
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