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Caterpillar Inc. · NYSE
Price: $835.24 · Annual div: $5.94/share · Frequency: quarterly · Payout ratio: 50% · Ex-div: TBD
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$10,000 in CAT → $5.88M in 10 years · $214.75/month
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines worldwide. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, backhoe loaders, compactors, cold planers, compact track and multi-terrain loaders, excavators, motorgraders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, site prep tractors, skid steer loaders, telehandlers, and utility vehicles; mini, small, medium, and large excavators; compact, small, and medium wheel loaders; track-type tractors and loaders; and wheel excavators. The Resource Industries segment provides electric rope shovels, draglines, hydraulic shovels, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, track-type tractors, mining trucks, longwall miners, wheel loaders, off-highway trucks, articulated trucks, wheel tractor scrapers, wheel dozers, fleet management, landfill compactors, soil compactors, machinery components, autonomous ready vehicles and solutions, select work tools, and safety services and mining performance solutions. The Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engines, generator sets, integrated systems and solutions, turbines and turbine-related services, remanufactured reciprocating engines and components, centrifugal gas compressors, diesel-electric locomotives and components, and other rail-related products and services for marine, oil and gas, industrial, and electric power generation sectors. The company's Financial Products segment provides operating and finance leases, installment sale contracts, working capital loans, and wholesale financing plans; and insurance and risk management products for vehicles, power generation facilities, and marine vessels. The All Other operating segment manufactures filters and fluids, undercarriage, ground engaging tools, etc. The company was formerly known as Caterpillar Tractor Co. and changed its name to Caterpillar Inc. in 1986. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.
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Real after-tax yield depends on where you live and how you hold CAT.
| Account/Country | Tax Rate | After-tax Yield | Real Yield | $10K Annual Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Roth IRA / 401k | 0% | 0.71% | -2.09% | $71 / yr |
| 🇺🇸 US Taxable (15%) ✓ | 15% | 0.60% | -2.20% | $60 / yr |
| 🇺🇸 US Taxable (20%) | 20% | 0.57% | -2.23% | $57 / yr |
| 🇬🇧 UK ISA | 0% | 0.71% | -2.09% | $71 / yr |
| 🇬🇧 UK Taxable | 8.75% | 0.65% | -2.15% | $65 / yr |
| 🇨🇦 TFSA | 0% | 0.71% | -2.09% | $71 / yr |
| 🇨🇦 CA Taxable | 25% | 0.53% | -2.27% | $53 / yr |
| 🇦🇺 Super (pension) | 15% | 0.60% | -2.20% | $60 / yr |
| 🇦🇺 AU Taxable | 30% | 0.50% | -2.30% | $50 / yr |
| 🇩🇪 DE Taxable | 26.375% | 0.52% | -2.28% | $52 / yr |
| 🇫🇷 FR Taxable | 30% | 0.50% | -2.30% | $50 / yr |
Real yield = after-tax yield minus US CPI of 2.8%. 12-month CPI (US BLS via FMP economic-indicators). Click any row to select. US withholding tax (30%, reducible by treaty) applies to non-US residents holding US stocks in taxable accounts.
12-month CPI (US BLS via FMP economic-indicators).
Based on current dividend of $5.94/share/yr · 🇺🇸 US Taxable (15%) · static projection (no growth assumed).
CAT pays quarterly — 4 times per year. Next ex-div: TBD.
How CAT compares to typical Industrials averages.
Benchmarks: S&P 500 sector averages (2024–2026). Sources: Morningstar, Bloomberg, NAREIT. 5Y CAGR for CAT sourced from FMP /financial-growth endpoint — real data, not estimates.
When executives buy their own stock, it's a signal they believe in the dividend's sustainability.
| Insider | Title | Type | Date | Shares | Price | Total Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 13,472 | $127.60 | $1.72M | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 8,437 | $219.76 | $1.85M | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 8,705 | $196.70 | $1.71M | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 5,278 | $253.98 | $1.34M | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 2,158 | $338.65 | $730.8K | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 1,996 | $332.04 | $662.8K | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 1,564 | $752.18 | $1.18M | ||
| Other | 2026-05-01 | 5,889 | — | — | ||
| A-Award | 2026-04-24 | 19 | — | — | ||
| A-Award | 2026-03-31 | 33 | — | — |
Insider transactions sourced from SEC Form 4 filings via Financial Modeling Prep. See disclaimer.
Analyst consensus price target via FMP. Not a guarantee of future performance. Past analyst accuracy varies.
Altman Z-Score predicts bankruptcy risk. Piotroski F-Score measures financial strength across 9 criteria. High scores → lower dividend cut risk. Data via FMP financial statements.
Revenue breakdown from latest annual report via FMP. Percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding.
Dividend yields, payout ratios, and financial metrics are sourced from Financial Modeling Prep (FMP) and cross-referenced with SEC EDGAR filings. Data is cached and updated every 24 hours via our nightly refresh. DRIP projections are forward-looking estimates, not guarantees.
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