shares of caterpillar inc cat rose 117 to 24776 friday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 104 to 413648 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 038 to 3392601 the stocks rise snapped a fourday losing streak caterpillar inc closed 1828 short of its 52week high 26604 which the company reached on january 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors friday as deere  co de fell 012 to 40606 trading volume 41 m eclipsed 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