| Valuation |
8.2 |
auto |
P/E 44.0 |
| Liquidity |
7.9 |
auto |
Current ratio 1.44 |
| Growth |
8.6 |
auto |
Revenue growth 18.0% |
| Profitability |
7.6 |
auto |
Net margin 13.1% |
| Efficiency |
10.0 |
auto |
ROE 43.5% |
| Leadership Tenure |
8.4 |
ai |
CEO Jim Umpleby has led Caterpillar since January 2017 (~8 years), with a deep bench and orderly succession culture; long-tenured but not iconic-founder territory. |
| Ownership Alignment |
4.4 |
auto |
Insider holding 0.22% |
| Strategic Vision |
8.1 |
ai |
Clear roadmap around services revenue target ($28B by 2026), autonomy (Cat Command for mining trucks deployed across major miners), energy transition products, and infrastructure/data-center power generation — coherent if incremental. |
| Focus / Clarity |
8.3 |
ai |
Tightly organized into three coherent segments — Construction Industries, Resource Industries, Energy & Transportation — plus Cat Financial supporting equipment sales; disciplined pure-play heavy machinery franchise. |
| Diversification |
8.6 |
ai |
~$65B revenue spread across construction, mining, oil & gas, power gen, and rail; geographically diversified across North America, EAME, Asia-Pacific, Latin America with no single customer concentration. |
| Maturity / Revenue |
9.5 |
ai |
Revenue $67.6B |
| Growth Potential |
8.3 |
ai |
Multiple tailwinds compounding: US infrastructure bill, reshoring capex, mining super-cycle for copper/critical minerals, and surging data-center backup power demand for Cat reciprocating gensets — meaningful rerating runway despite mature category. |
| Volatility |
5.7 |
auto |
β 1.52 · D/E 206.67 |
| Market Standing |
9.1 |
auto |
Market cap $380.5B |
| Competitive Moat |
9.2 |
ai |
Global dealer network of 150+ independent dealers is effectively unreplicable, top-tier global market share in heavy equipment, massive installed base driving high-margin aftermarket parts/services, and scale economies in manufacturing — best-in-class industrial moat just shy of the +1 boost. |