shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 053 higher to 22167 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 133 to 414622 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 114 to 3402969 caterpillar inc closed 4437 below its 52week high 26604 which the company achieved on january 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as deere  co de rose 009 to 38474 trading volume 28 m remained 703172 below