Caterpillar's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2024 was 2.62.
The historical rank and industry rank for Caterpillar's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:
CAT'
s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.86 Med: 3.26 Max: 6.98
Current: 2.62
During the past 13 years, Caterpillar's highest Yield on Cost was 6.98. The lowest was 1.86. And the median was 3.26.
CAT's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than 63.77% of 138
companies
in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry
Industry Median: 3.4
vs CAT: 2.62
Competitive Comparison of Caterpillar's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %
For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery subindustry, Caterpillar's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Caterpillar's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery Industry
For the Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery industry and Industrials sector, Caterpillar's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Caterpillar's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.
Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.
Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.
Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Caterpillar is calculated as
Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.
Caterpillar 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Related Terms
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Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Its reporting segments are: construction industries (40% sales/47% operating profit, or OP), resource industries (20% sales/19% OP), and energy & transportation (40% sales/34% OP). Market share approaches 20% across many products. Caterpillar operates a captive finance subsidiary to facilitate sales. The firm has global reach (46% US sales/54% ex-US). Construction skews more domestic, while the other divisions are more geographically diversified. An independent network of 156 dealers operates approximately 2,800 facilities, giving Caterpillar reach into about 190 countries for sales and support services.
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