shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 009 higher to 26275 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 024 to 456572 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 031 to 3506121 caterpillar inc closed 329 short of its 52week high 26604 which the company reached on january 27th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors wednesday as deere  co de rose 107 to 43617 trading volume 28 m remained 283882 below its 50day average volume of 30 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