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Wall Street Drivers beta

📊 Professional Investors(wallstreet) pay a lot of heed at these numbers, long term history matters - specially 9+ year trends
Score 3.0 / 10.0

  • revenue cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['2.85 is NOT greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business which grow >= 5% YoY, better than GDP growth of >= 2-3%
  • cashflows cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['3.04 is NOT greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business which generate cashflows >= 5% YoY, for some industries like finance specially Banks this might be lower/red and its OK for them
  • shares outstanding cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['-2.31 is less than equal to 2']
  • mental_model: As a business owner equity is important, We want less dilution over years OR it should reduce so our share of business increases with time, less than 2% is ideal, >=10% is potentially bad be careful
  • debt cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['4.2 is NOT less than equal to 2']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business with lower debt growth
  • equity cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['0.57 is NOT greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business having shareholder equity growth >= 5% YoY
  • leverage average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['12.07 is NOT less than equal to 5', '12.07 is greater than equal to 0']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business which can pay their debts in less than 5 years using cashflows, for some industries like finance specially Banks this might be lower/red and its OK for them
  • interestRate average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['0.01 is less than equal to 0.05']
  • mental_model: We prefer lower interest rate than the current prevailing interest rates, we want long term debt profile too

Business Durability beta

🏰 Quality companies with moats show higher or stable trends, long term trends matters, Consistency is the Key
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • margin cashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 0.17 wrt mean ratio: 0.143']
  • cash average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 6957000000.0 wrt mean ratio: 6898166666.666']
  • mental_model: We want stability on cash growth

Business Trends last 3 years beta

Score 5.0 / 10.0

  • capex running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 0.03 wrt mean ratio: 0.031']
  • cash running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.11 wrt mean ratio: 0.137']
  • mental_model: cash trend should be similar or greater to revenue, if company is heavily reinvesting it might be OK, but do check

Profits Matter beta

💰 Companies needs to have positive profits to reward its shareholders in the long term
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • positive cashflows profits average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['10895333333.33 is greater than equal to 0']
  • mental_model: We want to see positive cashflows profits for last 3 years, Profits determine Stock prices in the long term

Capital Allocation beta

🧠 Remember: Shareholders only gets rewarded if management does prudent capital allocation decisions
Score 4.0 / 10.0

  • capex to Cashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.15 wrt mean ratio: 0.225']
  • depreciation to capex running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 1.33 wrt mean ratio: 1.867']
  • mental_model: Helps understand where the company is investing for the future, OR it has to replenish its assets to maintain business
  • cashToRevenue running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.11 wrt mean ratio: 0.137']
  • cashToEquity running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.38 wrt mean ratio: 0.45']
  • cashToCapex running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 4.28 wrt mean ratio: 5.139']

Business Performance beta

Score 5.0 / 10.0

  • Operating Leverage Cashflow cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [1.07] for last 9 year ratio, threshold 0.9, value_1: 3.04, value_2: 2.85']
  • debt cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [1.47] for last 9 year ratio, threshold 1, value_1: 4.2, value_2: 2.85']
  • cash cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [1.02] for last 9 year ratio, threshold 0.9, value_1: 0.58, value_2: 0.57']
  • debt-equity-cagr cagr for last 9 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [7.37] for last 9 year ratio, threshold 1, value_1: 4.2, value_2: 0.57']
  • mental_model: We want debt to grow less than equity

Balance Sheet Quality beta

📈 Quality companies can withstand darkest hours, strong balance sheet is the key
Score 8.0 / 10.0

  • debtToCashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 12.07 wrt mean ratio: 15.503']
  • debtToEquity running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: 7.19 wrt mean ratio: 7.199']
  • leverage average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['12.07 is NOT less than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business which can pay their debts in less than 5 years
  • interestRate average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['0.01 is less than equal to 0.05']
  • mental_model: We prefer lower interest rate than the current prevailing interest rates, we want long term debt profile too

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1. Showing SPECIAL_REPORT report for CAT [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 294.25 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
CAT StockMarketPrice 361.43 289.94 230.20 194.10 167.40 131.84 110.32 133.81 76.45 53.80 69.84 67.50 65.26 64.24
CAT revenue 64.81B 67.06B 59.43B 50.97B 41.75B 53.80B 54.72B 42.68B 35.77B 44.15B 52.14B 52.69B 63.07B 57.39B 39.87B 29.54B
CAT cash 6.89B 6.98B 7.00B 9.25B 9.35B 8.28B 7.86B 8.26B 7.17B 6.46B 7.34B 6.08B 5.49B 3.06B 3.59B 4.87B
CAT ppnenet 13.36B 12.68B 12.03B 12.09B 12.40B 12.90B 13.57B 14.15B 15.32B 16.09B 16.58B 17.07B 16.46B 14.39B 12.54B 12.39B
CAT owner_earnings 10.05B 11.29B 6.47B 6.11B 5.35B 5.86B 5.28B 4.81B 4.50B 5.29B 6.34B 7.57B 2.24B 4.31B 3.28B 4.97B
CAT cashflow::operating 12.04B 12.88B 7.77B 7.20B 6.33B 6.91B 6.56B 5.71B 5.64B 6.70B 8.06B 10.19B 5.24B 7.01B 5.01B 6.50B
CAT grossincome 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.42B 7.46B 10.40B 11.42B 11.97B 16.01B 13.81B 9.50B 5.65B
CAT marketcap 174.50B 147.60B 119.80B 105.00B 90.94B 72.86B 65.10B 79.08B 44.73B 31.32B 43.86B 44.41B 43.66B 42.78B 0.0 0.0
CAT ev 264.87B 240.06B 310.69B 249.99B 227.07B 250.54B 148.01B 154.69B 120.57B 109.76B 125.74B 123.09B 133.33B 128.17B 0.0 0.0
CAT ebitda 15.22B 15.11B 10.12B 9.23B 6.99B 10.87B 11.06B 7.34B 4.20B 6.83B 8.49B 8.71B 11.39B 9.68B 0.0 0.0
CAT equity 19.49B 19.50B 15.89B 16.52B 15.38B 14.63B 14.08B 13.77B 13.21B 14.88B 16.83B 20.88B 17.58B 12.93B 10.86B 8.82B
CAT debt 97.26B 99.44B 197.90B 154.25B 145.48B 185.96B 90.76B 83.87B 83.01B 84.89B 89.22B 84.75B 95.16B 88.44B 68.86B 66.72B
CAT interestRate 0.01 0.01 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.01
CAT owner_earningsToInterest 7.81 10.96 11.45 12.51 9.08 7.77 7.32 9.05 8.91 10.43 13.09 16.29 4.79 10.87 9.57 12.79
CAT cashflow::operatingToInterest 9.36 12.51 13.75 14.75 10.74 9.17 9.08 10.75 11.17 13.21 16.65 21.92 11.22 17.70 14.60 16.71
CAT shares 0.49B 0.51B 0.53B 0.55B 0.55B 0.57B 0.60B 0.60B 0.58B 0.60B 0.63B 0.66B 0.67B 0.67B 0.66B 0.67B
CAT shares_calc 0.48B 0.51B 0.52B 0.54B 0.54B 0.55B 0.59B 0.59B 0.59B 0.58B 0.63B 0.66B 0.67B 0.67B 0.66B 0.67B
CAT capex 1.99B 1.60B 1.30B 1.09B 0.98B 1.06B 1.28B 0.90B 1.11B 1.39B 1.54B 2.52B 3.35B 2.52B 1.57B 1.50B
CAT depreciation 2.15B 2.14B 2.22B 2.35B 2.43B 2.58B 2.77B 2.88B 3.03B 3.05B 3.16B 3.09B 2.81B 2.53B 2.30B 2.34B
CAT inventoryTurnover 3.91 4.12 4.23 4.47 3.71 4.67 5.46 3.63 2.92 2.76 3.23 2.62 3.24 4.55 4.77 3.76
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)

2. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to shares_calc for CAT [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 294.25 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
CAT StockMarketPrice
CAT revenue 134.24 131.73 114.19 94.23 76.85 97.35 92.73 72.21 61.14 75.82 83.03 80.08 94.27 86.17 60.53 44.12
CAT cash 14.27 13.71 13.46 17.11 17.21 14.99 13.31 13.98 12.25 11.10 11.69 9.24 8.21 4.59 5.45 7.27
CAT ppnenet 27.67 24.91 23.11 22.35 22.83 23.35 23.00 23.95 26.19 27.63 26.40 25.95 24.61 21.61 19.04 18.50
CAT owner_earnings 20.81 22.17 12.43 11.29 9.85 10.60 8.95 8.14 7.69 9.08 10.09 11.51 3.34 6.47 4.98 7.43
CAT cashflow::operating 24.93 25.31 14.92 13.31 11.65 12.51 11.11 9.66 9.64 11.51 12.83 15.49 7.83 10.53 7.61 9.71
CAT grossincome 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.32 12.76 17.87 18.19 18.19 23.94 20.74 14.42 8.44
CAT marketcap 361.43 289.94 230.20 194.10 167.40 131.84 110.32 133.81 76.45 53.80 69.84 67.50 65.26 64.24 0.0 0.0
CAT ev 548.61 471.56 597.01 462.14 417.98 453.34 250.81 261.75 206.08 188.51 200.22 187.07 199.29 192.45 0.0 0.0
CAT ebitda 31.53 29.68 19.45 17.06 12.86 19.66 18.74 12.42 7.17 11.73 13.52 13.24 17.02 14.53 0.0 0.0
CAT equity 40.38 38.31 30.54 30.53 28.31 26.47 23.86 23.29 22.58 25.57 26.79 31.73 26.28 19.41 16.50 13.18
CAT debt 201.45 195.33 380.27 285.15 267.79 336.49 153.81 141.92 141.88 145.80 142.07 128.81 142.24 132.80 104.55 99.64
CAT shares 1.01 1.01 1.02 1.01 1.01 1.03 1.02 1.01 1.00 1.03 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
CAT shares_calc 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
CAT capex 4.12 3.14 2.49 2.02 1.80 1.91 2.16 1.52 1.90 2.38 2.45 3.83 5.01 3.78 2.39 2.25
CAT depreciation 4.46 4.21 4.26 4.35 4.48 4.66 4.69 4.87 5.19 5.23 5.04 4.69 4.20 3.79 3.49 3.49
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)

3. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to revenue for CAT [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 294.25 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
CAT StockMarketPrice
CAT revenue 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
CAT cash 10.63% 10.41% 11.79% 18.16% 22.40% 15.40% 14.36% 19.36% 20.04% 14.63% 14.08% 11.54% 8.70% 5.33% 9.01% 16.48%
CAT ppnenet 20.62% 18.91% 20.24% 23.72% 29.70% 23.99% 24.81% 33.17% 42.83% 36.45% 31.79% 32.40% 26.10% 25.08% 31.45% 41.93%
CAT owner_earnings 15.50% 16.83% 10.89% 11.98% 12.81% 10.88% 9.65% 11.27% 12.58% 11.98% 12.15% 14.37% 3.55% 7.50% 8.23% 16.84%
CAT cashflow::operating 18.57% 19.21% 13.07% 14.12% 15.16% 12.85% 11.98% 13.37% 15.76% 15.17% 15.45% 19.34% 8.31% 12.21% 12.56% 22.00%
CAT grossincome 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.75% 20.86% 23.57% 21.91% 22.71% 25.39% 24.07% 23.83% 19.14%
CAT marketcap 269.25% 220.11% 201.59% 205.99% 217.83% 135.43% 118.97% 185.30% 125.04% 70.95% 84.12% 84.29% 69.23% 74.55% 0.0 0.0
CAT ev 408.69% 357.98% 522.81% 490.46% 543.91% 465.69% 270.47% 362.48% 337.04% 248.62% 241.14% 233.59% 211.40% 223.33% 0.0 0.0
CAT ebitda 23.49% 22.53% 17.03% 18.11% 16.73% 20.20% 20.21% 17.19% 11.73% 15.47% 16.28% 16.54% 18.05% 16.87% 0.0 0.0
CAT equity 30.08% 29.08% 26.74% 32.40% 36.84% 27.19% 25.73% 32.26% 36.94% 33.72% 32.27% 39.62% 27.88% 22.53% 27.25% 29.87%
CAT debt 150.07% 148.28% 333.01% 302.62% 348.47% 345.66% 165.86% 196.53% 232.04% 192.29% 171.10% 160.84% 150.88% 154.11% 172.72% 225.86%
CAT shares 0.75% 0.76% 0.89% 1.08% 1.31% 1.05% 1.09% 1.40% 1.63% 1.36% 1.20% 1.25% 1.06% 1.16% 1.65% 2.27%
CAT shares_calc 0.74% 0.76% 0.88% 1.06% 1.30% 1.03% 1.08% 1.38% 1.64% 1.32% 1.20% 1.25% 1.06% 1.16% 1.65% 2.27%
CAT capex 3.07% 2.38% 2.18% 2.14% 2.34% 1.96% 2.33% 2.10% 3.10% 3.14% 2.95% 4.79% 5.31% 4.38% 3.95% 5.09%
CAT depreciation 3.32% 3.20% 3.73% 4.61% 5.83% 4.79% 5.05% 6.74% 8.48% 6.90% 6.07% 5.86% 4.46% 4.40% 5.76% 7.91%
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)

4. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to ppnenet for CAT [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 294.25 as of 2025-04-18
T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
CAT StockMarketPrice
CAT revenue 485.06% 528.86% 494.07% 421.60% 336.65% 416.92% 403.14% 301.49% 233.47% 274.38% 314.54% 308.60% 383.14% 398.69% 317.94% 238.50%
CAT cash 51.56% 55.03% 58.23% 76.54% 75.41% 64.20% 57.88% 58.36% 46.78% 40.15% 44.28% 35.61% 33.35% 21.24% 28.65% 39.29%
CAT ppnenet 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
CAT owner_earnings 75.20% 89.02% 53.79% 50.50% 43.13% 45.38% 38.91% 33.97% 29.38% 32.86% 38.22% 44.35% 13.58% 29.91% 26.17% 40.16%
CAT cashflow::operating 90.08% 101.62% 64.57% 59.54% 51.02% 53.56% 48.31% 40.31% 36.80% 41.63% 48.60% 59.68% 31.84% 48.70% 39.95% 52.47%
CAT grossincome 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 80.65% 48.71% 64.67% 68.91% 70.08% 97.28% 95.96% 75.76% 45.65%
CAT marketcap 1306.03% 1164.07% 995.99% 868.46% 733.34% 564.65% 479.60% 558.66% 291.93% 194.68% 264.58% 260.12% 265.23% 297.21% 0.0 0.0
CAT ev 1982.41% 1893.25% 2583.06% 2067.74% 1831.07% 1941.59% 1090.36% 1092.83% 786.91% 682.14% 758.49% 720.87% 809.96% 890.38% 0.0 0.0
CAT ebitda 113.95% 119.16% 84.16% 76.34% 56.33% 84.21% 81.47% 51.83% 27.39% 42.45% 51.22% 51.04% 69.17% 67.25% 0.0 0.0
CAT equity 145.90% 153.81% 132.12% 136.61% 124.01% 113.37% 103.73% 97.25% 86.24% 92.51% 101.50% 122.27% 106.81% 89.82% 86.64% 71.23%
CAT debt 727.94% 784.21% 1645.29% 1275.82% 1173.14% 1441.13% 668.65% 592.53% 541.76% 527.61% 538.20% 496.37% 578.08% 614.41% 549.16% 538.67%
CAT shares 3.66% 4.05% 4.41% 4.53% 4.42% 4.39% 4.41% 4.23% 3.81% 3.74% 3.79% 3.85% 4.06% 4.63% 5.25% 5.41%
CAT shares_calc 3.61% 4.01% 4.33% 4.47% 4.38% 4.28% 4.35% 4.18% 3.82% 3.62% 3.79% 3.85% 4.06% 4.63% 5.25% 5.41%
CAT capex 14.88% 12.59% 10.77% 9.04% 7.89% 8.18% 9.40% 6.34% 7.24% 8.63% 9.28% 14.77% 20.35% 17.47% 12.56% 12.14%
CAT depreciation 16.11% 16.91% 18.45% 19.45% 19.61% 19.97% 20.38% 20.32% 19.80% 18.93% 19.08% 18.08% 17.09% 17.55% 18.31% 18.86%
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)


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