Caterpillar Stock Cash And Equivalents
| CAT1 Stock | EUR 384.00 3.00 0.78% |
Caterpillar fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Caterpillar's financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Caterpillar Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Caterpillar's intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Caterpillar stock.
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Caterpillar Company Cash And Equivalents Analysis
Caterpillar's Cash or Cash Equivalents are the most liquid of all assets found on the company's balance sheet. It is used in calculating many of the firm's liquidity ratios and is a good indicator of the overall financial health of a company. Companies with a lot of cash are usually attractive takeover targets. Cash Equivalents are balance sheet items that are typically reported using currency printed on notes.
Current Caterpillar Cash And Equivalents | 10.49 B |
Most of Caterpillar's fundamental indicators, such as Cash And Equivalents, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Caterpillar is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
Cash equivalents represent current assets that are easily convertible to cash such as short term bonds, savings account, money market funds, or certificate of deposits (CDs). One of the important consideration companies make when classifying assets as cash equivalent is that investments they report on their balance sheets under current assets should have almost no risk of change in value over the next few months (usually three months).
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In accordance with the recently published financial statements, Caterpillar has 10.49 B in Cash And Equivalents. This is much higher than that of the Industrials sector and significantly higher than that of the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry. The cash and equivalents for all Germany stocks is significantly lower than that of the firm.
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Caterpillar Fundamentals
| Return On Equity | 0.41 | |||
| Return On Asset | 0.074 | |||
| Profit Margin | 0.11 % | |||
| Operating Margin | 0.16 % | |||
| Current Valuation | 144.41 B | |||
| Shares Outstanding | 516.35 M | |||
| Shares Owned By Insiders | 0.14 % | |||
| Shares Owned By Institutions | 72.03 % | |||
| Price To Earning | 33.02 X | |||
| Price To Book | 7.78 X | |||
| Price To Sales | 2.02 X | |||
| Revenue | 59.43 B | |||
| Gross Profit | 15.56 B | |||
| EBITDA | 11.41 B | |||
| Net Income | 6.71 B | |||
| Cash And Equivalents | 10.49 B | |||
| Cash Per Share | 19.15 X | |||
| Total Debt | 25.6 B | |||
| Debt To Equity | 2.30 % | |||
| Current Ratio | 1.60 X | |||
| Book Value Per Share | 30.73 X | |||
| Cash Flow From Operations | 7.77 B | |||
| Earnings Per Share | 11.92 X | |||
| Price To Earnings To Growth | 1.55 X | |||
| Target Price | 229.89 | |||
| Number Of Employees | 109.1 K | |||
| Beta | 1.1 | |||
| Market Capitalization | 119.7 B | |||
| Total Asset | 81.94 B | |||
| Z Score | 2.4 | |||
| Annual Yield | 0.02 % | |||
| Five Year Return | 2.54 % | |||
| Net Asset | 81.94 B | |||
| Last Dividend Paid | 4.71 |
About Caterpillar Fundamental Analysis
The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Caterpillar's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Caterpillar using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Caterpillar based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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