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What CAT's price assumes
Caterpillar Inc. trades at 35.4× earnings against 26.3× for the median Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery name, more expensive than its own group.
35.4
Trailing P/E · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery median 26.3 · 1.35× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 4.66
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 2.4%
Free cash flow yield · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery median 3.8%
- Growth the price implies
- +16%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +16% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +7.3% a year over the last three.
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- Industrials median P/E351 names
- 29.0
- Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery median P/E13 names
- 26.3
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $10.7B
- Market capitalisation
- $454.1B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +4.9%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +7.3%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| What its own history would imply | not meaningful, 33.2× today against a 16.1× median |
| 52-week range | $409.72 – $1,022.28 |
| Today | $822.60 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
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