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Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) stock score

Industrials · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · United States

$800.47 ▲ +0.54% today

59.1
Dad Score, out of 100
middling

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) is a Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company in the Industrials sector, listed in the United States. On DadFin's weekly run it scores 59.1 out of 100 on the Dad Score, a middling reading that places the business ahead of 59% of the 5,774 US and Canadian stocks DadFin fully scores. Inside Industrials it ranks #310 of 704. Its strongest axes are quality, price action and liquidity; its weakest are valuation and conviction.

Scores from the run of Oct 4, 2026. The Dad Score answers one question: how good is this business, measured against its own sector. How it is built →

The eight axes

Valuation
Weak
Quality
Strong
Growth
Average
Price action
Strong
Risk
Average
Conviction
Weak
Liquidity
Strong
Macro
Below average

Each axis is ranked inside the stock's own sector. Subscribers see the percentile and every input behind each bar.

Key numbers

P/E (trailing)36.4×
P/E (forward)26.1×
Dividend yield0.75%
Return on capital19.6%
Operating margin22.2%
Revenue growth (YoY)+4.3%
FCF yield1.8%
Net debt / EBITDA2.41×
Piotroski F-Score6 / 9
52-week change+72.2%
Market cap$388.6B
Next earningsOct 29, 2026

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Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery peers

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PCARPACCAR Inc27.0weak$57.7B
CNHCNH Industrial N.V.12.9poor$21.7B
OSKOshkosh Corporation30.1weak$8.3B
AGCOAGCO Corporation17.6weak$8.0B
FSSFederal Signal Corporation94.3strong$7.1B
TEXTerex Corporation75.1good$6.5B
ALGAlamo Group Inc.38.1weak$2.0B

Prices from DadFin's live feed (refreshed about every 15 minutes in the session); scores from the weekly run of Oct 4, 2026. Fundamentals as reported in the latest filings. Research, not investment advice.