Caterpillar Inc
NYSE:CAT
Dividends
Dividend Yield
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Dividend Per Share
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CAT have
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by 8%.
Payout Ratio
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Dividends
Shareholder Yield
Current shareholder yield for CAT is
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Shareholder yield represents the total return a company provides to its shareholders, calculated as the sum of dividend yield, buyback yield, and debt paydown yield. What is shareholder yield?
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Shareholder Yield
Buybacks
Buyback Yield measures how much a company reduces its outstanding shares through repurchases, expressed as a percentage.
This metric directly reflects the company’s efforts to return value to shareholders. By reducing the number of shares, buybacks can increase earnings per share and potentially boost the stock's price.
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Buybacks
Debt Paydown
Debt Paydown Yield measures the amount of debt a company repays within a specific period, shown as a percentage of its market capitalization.
This metric indicates how the company is using its capital to decrease financial liabilities, which can strengthen its financial health and potentially enhance shareholder value.
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Debt Paydown
Price Appreciation
CAT Price
Caterpillar Inc
| Average Annual Return | 15.92% |
| Standard Deviation of Annual Returns | 13.9% |
| Max Drawdown | -32% |
| Market Capitalization | 332.1B USD |
| Shares Outstanding | 467 980 000 |
| Percentage of Shares Shorted | 2.15% |
CAT Return Decomposition
Main factors of price return
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 CAT's 4th stock split, following the previous one in Jul 14, 1997.
