shares of caterpillar inc cat slipped 171 to 23734 thursday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 037 to 438189 and the dow jones industrial average djia falling 001 to 3394671 caterpillar inc closed 2870 below its 52week high 26604 which the company reached on january 27th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors thursday as deere  co de fell 022 to 41569 trading volume 24 m remained 862005 below its 50day average volume of 33 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