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Caterpillar Inc  

Company profile

Symbol: CAT Exchange: NYSE Sector: Capital Goods Industry: Constr. & Agric. Machinery
Market Cap: $21.46 B Data Since: 1963-01-02 Last Close : $62.81 (2008-01-18)
Website: www.cat.com
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Analysis :    [Random Walk]   [Default Prediction]   [Fundamental Analysis]


Price Prediction

 

Random walk modeling for 2008 (what's this?). Click on the images for the high resolution version.

Initial Value* : $72.56 Historic Volatility : 1.95% Annual Drift : 7%

Predicted price distribution   Predicted high to date and low to date price

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Money Flow Index

 

Money FLow Index for 2008

Money Flow Index   

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Default Prediction for 2007-12-31

 

Default prediction by Z-Score (what's this?).

Z Score :  
1.7834   

Sector         Industry
Caterpillar Inc Z score histogram (Capital Goods sector)   Caterpillar Inc Z score histogram (Constr. & Agric. Machinery industry)

View the other companies in the same industry : Constr. & Agric. Machinery

Alternative Z-Scores designed for non-public companies (i.e. take these with a grain of salt):

For manufacuring companies:
Z' Score :  
1.5349   

Sector         Industry
Caterpillar Inc Z' score histogram (Capital Goods sector)  Caterpillar Inc Z' score histogram (Constr. & Agric. Machinery industry)  

For non-manufacturing companies:
Z'' Score :  
2.3485   

Sector         Industry
  Caterpillar Inc Z'' score histogram (Capital Goods sector)  Caterpillar Inc Z score histogram (Constr. & Agric. Machinery industry)

 

Fundamental Analysis for 2007-

 

Fundamental Analysis measures (what's this?).

Date of financial statements used:  2007-12-31
Book Value : $6.445 B Internal Value : $6.445 B Working Capital : $3.232 B
Debt to Asset Ratio : 0.842 Current Ratio: 0.873 Turnover Ratio: 24.963
Net Margins : 50.786 EPS : 10.365 P/E ratio : 6.060
P/B ratio : 3.329 ROE : 0.549 ROA : 0.063