Short interest in Caterpillar Inc (NYSE:CAT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 11.75M to 11.81M. This put 2.42% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Caterpillar gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Caterpillar's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.09M shares traded per day, it would take 5.65 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.