shares of caterpillar inc cat rose 191 to 24518 friday on what proved to be an allaround grim trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 029 to 439895 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 055 to 3373488 caterpillar inc closed 2086 below its 52week high 26604 which the company reached on january 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as deere  co de rose 102 to 40528 trading volume 29 m remained 307020 below its 50day average volume of 32 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use