shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 070 higher to 22524 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 033 to 415132 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 030 to 3398718 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains caterpillar inc closed 4080 below its 52week high 26604 which the company reached on january 27th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors monday as deere  co de rose 094 to 39142 trading volume 17 m remained 15 million 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