shortly after the opening bell monday were buying 40 shares of caterpillar cat at roughly 21590 apiece following the trade jim cramers charitable trust will own 370 shares of cat increasing its weighting in the portfolio to 299 from 268 now that our trading restrictions have cleared we can buy some shares of caterpillar  we earmarked cash for this trade on may 1 following a firstquarter earnings pullback of the stock the bears have been dominating the direction of caterpillars stock arguing that right now is as good as it will get for the constructionequipment maker on pricing margins and its backlog but we remain steadfast that caterpillar is poised to benefit from a raft of us government infrastructure spending starting this year the company has only just started to see some of the infrastructure dollars flow through the positive benefit is small right now because the projects being approved are ones that do not require a lot of permits like the reservicing of roads once bigger ticket higher capitalintensive projects get underway caterpillar should see a more material tailwind to its business jim cramers charitable trust is long cat see here for a full list of the stocks as a subscriber to the cnbc investing club with jim cramer you will receive a trade alert before jim makes a trade jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trusts portfolio if jim has talked about a stock on cnbc tv he waits 72 hours after issuing the trade alert before executing the trade the above investing club information is subject to our terms and conditions and privacy policy  together with our disclaimer  no fiduciary obligation or duty exists or is created by virtue of your receipt of any information provided in connection with the investing club no specific outcome or profit is guaranteed