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Caterpillar Inc.

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CAT in the last 90 days

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) had no congress transactions and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 8,377,107 shares held short, 3.7 days to cover, up 10.9% from the report before.

  • Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 03 JUN 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$826$721 → $826 · +15% over six months

CAT is up 15%. Short sellers still aren't backing off.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are up 10% over the same stretch.

$721 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCTNOW $826

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +19%15 SEPT +10%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT

Money betting CAT falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.

Politicians

None filed

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets up 10%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

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Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

Our take on how well CAT holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 21 SEPT 2026

Vulnerable

When CAT gets hit, it tends to drop more easily than usual.

Lately, CAT has been easier to push down than usual.

That's been true for the last 54 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable
MAYJUNJULAUGSEPT
31 MAR 2026Now · 21 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

1 of 4 sources

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The disclosed money is split, on what has actually been filed. This reads on one source only, so treat it lightly.

Short interest
Short interest rose 4.0% — 8,054,245 to 8,377,107 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
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This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

8,377,107shares held short

Days to cover

3.70

Avg daily volume

2,263,202

Since last report

+10.89%

As of 15 September 2026, 8,377,107 Caterpillar Inc. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 822,402 shares more than the previous report, a 10.89% increase. At the average daily volume of 2,263,202 shares, that position represents 3.70 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for CAT — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 7,944,830 shares on 31 March 2026 to 8,377,107 today, a change of 5.4%. The highest reading in that window was 9,052,419 shares on 30 June 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 20268,377,1073.70
31 AUG 20267,554,7053.06
14 AUG 20266,455,4872.16
31 JUL 20266,854,1152.14
15 JUL 20268,054,2452.81
30 JUN 20269,052,4191.86
15 JUN 20268,445,3342.99
29 MAY 20268,103,4542.93
15 MAY 20268,353,9373.31
30 APR 20268,186,6123.37
15 APR 20267,595,7763.59
31 MAR 20267,944,8303.19
What is CAT's short interest?
8,377,107 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?
We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?
It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?
It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 3.70. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?
FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions21

Latest change03 JUN 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 21

Congress transactions on file

21 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Tim WalbergBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00007 FEB 202503 JUN 2026481 days — the law says 45
Hon. Jared MoskowitzSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial31 MAR 202630 APR 202630 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00018 NOV 202515 DEC 202527 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00017 OCT 202518 NOV 202532 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$15,001 – $50,00012 MAY 202522 JUN 202541 days
Hon. Rob BresnahanBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00015 MAY 202531 MAY 202516 days
Hon. Bruce WestermanSOLD$1,001 – $15,00021 APR 202512 MAY 202521 days
Hon. Bruce WestermanBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00008 APR 202512 MAY 202534 days
Hon. Jared MoskowitzBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00007 APR 202509 MAY 202532 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00017 APR 202508 MAY 202521 days
Hon. Rob BresnahanSOLD$1,001 – $15,00008 APR 202508 MAY 202530 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 MAY 202506 MAY 20251 day
Hon. Bruce WestermanBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00003 MAR 202516 APR 202544 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$15,001 – $50,00013 MAR 202511 APR 202529 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00004 APR 202507 APR 20253 days
Hon. Rob BresnahanSOLD$1,001 – $15,00025 FEB 202527 MAR 202530 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00017 MAR 202519 MAR 20252 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$50,001 – $100,000 · partial24 FEB 202509 MAR 202513 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00008 JAN 202527 JAN 202519 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00008 JAN 202527 JAN 202519 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00008 JAN 202527 JAN 202519 days
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