shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 074 higher to 24605 friday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 123 to 445038 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 084 to 3440760 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains caterpillar inc closed 1999 short of its 52week high 26604 which the company achieved on january 27th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as deere  co de rose 089 to 40519 trading volume 24 m remained 861367 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