CATERPILLAR INC vs GE Vernova Inc., two Industrial Machinery stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CAT and GEV diverge most: on debt / equity, CAT reads 0.00 and GEV reads 0.21; on return on invested capital, CAT reads 49.4% and GEV reads 7.9%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. What CAT's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CAT | GEV |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $814.55 | $990.15 |
| Market cap | $379.4B | $267.3B |
| Sector | Industrial Machinery | Industrial Machinery |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| P/E | 40.6 | 28.4 |
| P/B | 20.33 | 20.38 |
| P/S | 5.36 | 6.46 |
| EV/EBITDA | 26.9 | 109.5 |
| Revenue growth | +12.3% | +13.4% |
| Gross margin | — | 21.3% |
| Operating margin | 17.7% | 5.9% |
| Net margin | 13.3% | 5.2% |
| Return on equity | 50.5% | 16.5% |
| Return on assets | 9.9% | 2.7% |
| Return on invested capital | 49.4% | 7.9% |
| FCF yield | 2.5% | 4.7% |
| Dividend yield | 0.7% | 0.1% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.21 |
| Current ratio | 1.35 | 0.85 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 4.96 | 2.98 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 6 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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