DEERFIELD, Ill., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of
directors of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) voted today to increase
the quarterly cash dividend by eight
cents, a 10 percent raise, to eighty-six cents ($0.86) per share of common stock, payable
August 20, 2018, to shareholders of
record at the close of business on July 20,
2018.
"Increasing our dividend builds on our long history of dividend
growth," said Caterpillar CEO Jim
Umpleby. "It also demonstrates our confidence in our
strategy to pursue long-term profitable growth to deliver increased
value to shareholders."
Caterpillar has paid higher dividends to its shareholders for 24
consecutive years and, at $0.86 per
share, the company's quarterly cash dividend has more than doubled
since 2009. Caterpillar has paid a cash dividend every year since
the company was formed and has paid a quarterly dividend since
1933.
About Caterpillar
For more than 90 years, Caterpillar
Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving
positive change on every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar
to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource
assets. With 2017 sales and revenues of $45.462 billion, Caterpillar is the world's
leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel
and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and
diesel-electric locomotives. The company principally operates
through its three primary segments - Construction Industries,
Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation - and also
provides financing and related services through its Financial
Products segment. For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To
connect with us on social media, visit
caterpillar.com/social-media.
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statements regarding our outlook, projections, forecasts or trend
descriptions. These statements do not guarantee future performance
and speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not
undertake to update our forward-looking statements.
Caterpillar's actual results may differ materially from those
described or implied in our forward-looking statements based on a
number of factors, including, but not limited to: (i) global and
regional economic conditions and economic conditions in the
industries we serve; (ii) commodity price changes, material price
increases, fluctuations in demand for our products or significant
shortages of material; (iii) government monetary or fiscal
policies; (iv) political and economic risks, commercial instability
and events beyond our control in the countries in which we operate;
(v) our ability to develop, produce and market quality products
that meet our customers' needs; (vi) the impact of the highly
competitive environment in which we operate on our sales and
pricing; (vii) information technology security threats and computer
crime; (viii) additional restructuring costs or a failure to
realize anticipated savings or benefits from past or future cost
reduction actions; (ix) failure to realize all of the anticipated
benefits from initiatives to increase our productivity, efficiency
and cash flow and to reduce costs; (x) inventory management
decisions and sourcing practices of our dealers and our OEM
customers; (xi) a failure to realize, or a delay in realizing, all
of the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions, joint ventures or
divestitures; (xii) union disputes or other employee relations
issues; (xiii) adverse effects of unexpected events including
natural disasters; (xiv) disruptions or volatility in global
financial markets limiting our sources of liquidity or the
liquidity of our customers, dealers and suppliers; (xv) failure to
maintain our credit ratings and potential resulting increases to
our cost of borrowing and adverse effects on our cost of funds,
liquidity, competitive position and access to capital markets;
(xvi) our Financial Products segment's risks associated with the
financial services industry; (xvii) changes in interest rates or
market liquidity conditions; (xviii) an increase in delinquencies,
repossessions or net losses of Cat Financial's customers; (xix)
currency fluctuations; (xx) our or Cat Financial's compliance with
financial and other restrictive covenants in debt agreements; (xxi)
increased pension plan funding obligations; (xxii) alleged or
actual violations of trade or anti-corruption laws and regulations;
(xxiii) international trade policies and their impact on demand for
our products and our competitive position; (xxiv) additional tax
expense or exposure including the impact of U.S. tax reform; (xxv)
significant legal proceedings, claims, lawsuits or government
investigations; (xxvi) new regulations or changes in financial
services regulations; (xxvii) compliance with environmental laws
and regulations; and (xxviii) other factors described in more
detail in Caterpillar's Forms 10-Q, 10-K and other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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