Caterpillar Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Caterpillar Inc has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Caterpillar Inc (CAT)
| 07/20/2026 | 06/10/2026 | 07/20/2026 | 08/19/2026 | $1.63 |
| 04/20/2026 | 04/08/2026 | 04/20/2026 | 05/19/2026 | $1.51 |
| 01/20/2026 | 12/10/2025 | 01/20/2026 | 02/19/2026 | $1.51 |
| 10/20/2025 | 10/06/2025 | 10/20/2025 | 11/20/2025 | $1.51 |
| 07/21/2025 | 06/11/2025 | 07/21/2025 | 08/20/2025 | $1.51 |
| 04/21/2025 | 04/09/2025 | 04/21/2025 | 05/20/2025 | $1.41 |
| 01/21/2025 | 12/10/2024 | 01/21/2025 | 02/20/2025 | $1.41 |
| 10/21/2024 | 10/09/2024 | 10/21/2024 | 11/20/2024 | $1.41 |
| 07/22/2024 | 06/12/2024 | 07/22/2024 | 08/20/2024 | $1.41 |
| 04/19/2024 | 04/10/2024 | 04/22/2024 | 05/20/2024 | $1.30 |
More About Caterpillar Inc
Caterpillar Inc. provides construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives in the United States and internationally. The Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, cold planers, compactors, forestry machines, material handlers, motor graders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, telehandlers, track-type tractors, and track and wheel excavators; backhoe, compact track, skid steer, track-type, and wheel loaders; and related parts and work tools. Its Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, mining trucks, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wide-body trucks, wheel tractor scrapers and dozers, and landfill and soil compactors; machinery components, and wear and maintenance components; and technology products and services for fleet management, equipment management analytics, autonomous machine capabilities, safety services, and mining performance solutions. The Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engine powered generator sets; reciprocating engines, drivetrain, and integrated systems and solutions; centrifugal gas compressors and related services; and diesel-electric locomotive components, and other rail-related products. Its Financial Products segment provides operating and finance leases, revolving charge accounts, installment sale contracts, repair/rebuild financing, working capital loans, and wholesale financing; and insurance and risk management products and services. The All Other segment offers parts distribution; logistics and distribution services; electronics and control systems; dealer portfolio management; brand management and marketing strategy; and digital investment services. It also provides mining software solutions. The company was formerly known as Caterpillar Tractor Co. Caterpillar Inc. was incorporated in 1925 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
Owning Caterpillar Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Caterpillar Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Caterpillar Inc stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Caterpillar Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Caterpillar Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Caterpillar Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Caterpillar Inc Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Caterpillar Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Caterpillar Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Caterpillar Inc ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Caterpillar Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Caterpillar Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Caterpillar Inc put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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