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David MacLennan bought $120k of CAT

director at CATERPILLAR INC. 375 shares at an average of $320.70, traded May 7, 2025, filed May 8, 2025.

Conviction score
40
Value
$120k
375 shares
Holdings after
6,653
+6% from before
From 52-week low
+17%
low $269.21, close $316.27
From 52-week high
-23%
high $408.18, as of May 7, 2025

Score components

  • Role
    Director
    +15
  • Trade size
    $120k at market
    +10
  • Relative to holdings
    Holdings up 6%
    +3
  • Price context
    23% below the 52-week high
    +4
  • Cluster
    2 insiders buying within 14 days
    +8
  • Repeat buying
    First buy in 90 days
    0
  • Track record
    Too few past buys to judge (0 with prices)
    0

What happened after comparable buys

Same side and tier, against the S&P 500, at 1, 3 and 6 months. Shown to Pro users; the whole table is on the backtest page.

Price around the trade, and since

From a quarter before the trade to today. The arrow is the trade, the circle the day the filing reached EDGAR, which is the first day anyone outside could act; the dotted line is the S&P 500 rebased to that day's close.

CATOct 9, 2026 · close 800.47
Since filing May 8, 2025: +150.0%SPY +40.1% · excess +109.9%

Daily candles, adjusted for splits and dividends. Green arrows are insider buys, red are sells, sized by value; the dashed line is the close on the filing day, the dotted line SPY rebased to it.Charts by TradingView Lightweight Charts™

Rows in this filing

Every transaction in Form 4 0001104659-25-045921, as filed. Open on EDGAR

DateTransactionSharesPriceValueHoldings afterFiled
May 7, 2025POpen-market purchase
Common Stock
+375$320.70$120k6,653May 8, 2025

Related signals

Other insiders at CATERPILLAR INC and this insider’s other filings.

ScoreCompanyInsiderValueHoldingsFiled
45Moderate
CATsell
CATERPILLAR INC
Joseph E Creed
Chief Executive Officer
$26M
32,401 shares
-48%
25Weak
CATsell10b5-1
CATERPILLAR INC
Donald J Umpleby III
Executive Chairman
$7.9M
17,166 shares
-4%
25Weak
CATsell10b5-1
CATERPILLAR INC
Donald J Umpleby III
Executive Chairman
$7.1M
17,168 shares
-3%
57Moderate
CATsell 2
CATERPILLAR INC
Susan C Schwab
director
$953k
2,324 shares
-25%
42Moderate
CATsell 2
CATERPILLAR INC
Jason Kaiser
Group President
$903k
2,161 shares
-20%
22Weak
CATbuy 210b5-1
CATERPILLAR INC
Gerald Johnson
director
$32k
100 shares
+3%
53Moderate
CATsell
CATERPILLAR INC
Jason Kaiser
Group President
$860k
2,425 shares
-28%
11Weak
CATbuy10b5-1
CATERPILLAR INC
Gerald Johnson
director
$37k
100 shares
+3%
32Weak
CATsell10b5-1
CATERPILLAR INC
Andrew R J Bonfield
Chief Financial Officer
$3.8M
10,000 shares
-18%
6Weak
CATbuy10b5-1
CATERPILLAR INC
Gerald Johnson
director
$40k
100 shares
+4%

Not investment advice. Scores and forward returns are decision support built from public SEC filings and past prices; they describe what happened after comparable filings, not what will happen after this one. Do your own research and size your risk.

David MacLennan bought $120k of CAT | InsiderTell