CAT Average Annual Return 10 Years
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Growth of $10,000.00
With Dividends Reinvested Into CAT

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CAT Share Performance
CAT Average Annual Return Table 10 Years
Start date: 04/19/2016
End date: 04/17/2026
Start price/share: $80.39
End price/share: $794.65
Starting shares: 124.39
Ending shares: 156.48
Dividends reinvested/share: $42.15
Total return: 1,143.47%
CAT Average Annual Return: 28.67%
Starting investment: $10,000.00
Ending investment: $124,386.43


CAT average annual return is presented with the assumption of reinvestments of any dividends on ex-date.
About Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Co. operates through its three primary segments: Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation. It also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment. The Construction Industries segment is primarily responsible for supporting customers using machinery in infrastructure and building construction applications. The Resource Industries segment is primarily responsible for supporting customers using machinery in mining, heavy construction and quarry and aggregates. The CAT average annual return 10 years is shown above.

The Average Annual Return on the CAT average annual return 10 years page and across the coverage universe of our site, is a measure of the annualized return over the past ten years (or specified start date) for a given investment (up to the end of prior trading session recorded). Arguably, choosing ten years for a measurement period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand provides a sufficiently long window to capture long-term trends.

Thus, researching Average Annual Returns is good practice for investors — whether CAT average annual return 10 years or other benchmarks/peers — and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annualized return is more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors by performing the CAT average annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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★★★★★ Based on a ranking of our entire coverage universe by highest ten year average annual return, Caterpillar (CAT) ranks in the top 25% of all stocks whose returns we have reviewed.
What has the average annual return been for CAT over the past ten years?
✔️Accepted answer: The ten year CAT average annual return has been 28.67% with dividends reinvested.

When you say 'with dividends reinvested' what does that mean?
✔️Accepted answer: That means that each time the stock goes ex-dividend, the average annual return calculation then factors in how that dividend amount could have been reinvested into more shares of CAT at the then-current price — often this is referred to as 'compounding' and is very important when considering average annual return over a long period like a full decade.

What start date was used in your CAT average annual return calculation?
✔️Accepted answer: The start date was 04/19/2016.

What end date was used in your CAT average annual return calculation?
✔️Accepted answer: The end date was 04/17/2026.

If I had invested $10,000 into CAT ten years ago, how much would I have today?
✔️Accepted answer: With dividends reinvested, as of 04/17/2026, you would have $124,386.43.

What does that work out to on a total return basis?
✔️Accepted answer: The CAT ten year total return ending 04/17/2026 works out to 1,143.47%.


Also see:
• CAT stock yearly return 2016
• CAT stock yearly return 2017
• CAT stock yearly return 2018
• CAT stock yearly return 2019
• CAT stock yearly return 2020
• CAT stock yearly return 2021
• CAT stock yearly return 2022
• CAT stock yearly return 2023
• CAT stock yearly return 2024
• CAT stock yearly return 2025
• CAT YTD return
 

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