| Company name | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Stock ticker | CAT |
| Live stock price | [stckqut]CAT[/stckqut] |
| P/E compared to competitors | Good |
| Employee productivity | Fair |
| Sales growth | Good |
| EPS growth | Good |
| P/E growth | Poor |
| EBIT growth | Good |
| Confident Investor Rating | Good |
| Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) | $129.84 |
| Target stock price (averages with growth) | $175.52 |
| Target stock price (averages with no growth) | $134.07 |
| Target stock price (manual assumptions) | $94.03 |
The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=cat
Caterpillar Inc. (Caterpillar) is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The Company also is a service provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services, Caterpillar Logistics Services and Progress Rail Services. Caterpillar owns a portfolio of brands, which includes Anchor Coupling, AsiaTrak, Balderson, Barber-Greene, Cat, Cat Financial, Cat Logistics, Cat Reman, Cat Rental Store, E-Ject, Eurenov, FG Wilson, Hindustan, Mak, Olympian, Perkins, Prentice, Progress Rail, Shandong Engineering Machinery Co. (SEM), Solar Turbines, Turbomach, Turner Powertrain System,Verachtert and Xpart. It has remanufactured diesel engines and components for its own machines and power systems. On July 2011, the Company acquired Bucyrus International, Inc.
Confident Investor comments: Caterpillar is susceptible to a sustained world-wide recession but at this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in this stock.