NYSE · Industrials · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · USA
Caterpillar Inc is a mega cap company (market value over $200 billion) in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry.
Caterpillar designs and manufactures machinery for construction and mining operations, along with engines, turbines, and locomotives for various industrial applications. The company operates through three main segments serving customers in infrastructure, quarries, oil and gas, power generation, and rail sectors globally. Cat Financial offers financing solutions to support equipment sales worldwide.
From its FY2025 annual report (Form 10-K)
Intrinsic value, DCF valuation, financial health and value investing analysis for the Caterpillar Inc stock.
Overvalued: intrinsic value $362.07 per share, market price $725.79, margin of safety -100.5% (as of 2026-10-19).
Discounting its cash flows at 11.3% (average of 3 methods) values the shares at $362.07; the price of $725.79 is 100% above that value, and 69% of that value comes from beyond year five.
Leak Score: 58/100 on 12 of 12 signals (Weak Signal).
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8 more in this industry show a wider margin of safety.
CAT is overvalued (as of the 2026-10-19 close). Discounting its cash flows at 11.3% (average of 3 methods) values the shares at $362.07; the price of $725.79 is 100% above that value, and 69% of that value comes from beyond year five.
$362.07 per share (as of the 2026-10-19 close), against a market price of $725.79. That is a margin of safety of -100.5%. The value is the average of the valuation methods that apply to this company, recomputed every night after the US close.
The price needs faster growth than we project for any company. It is betting on an exception. Yearly sales growth the price needs: 39.8%. Yearly sales growth it has sustained: 12.8%.
58 out of 100, which we rate "Weak Signal", on 12 of 12 value investing signals.