shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 057 higher to 18099 thursday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 099 to 399895 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks fifth consecutive day of gains caterpillar inc closed 5691 below its 52week high 23790 which the company reached on april 21st the stock outperformed some of its competitors thursday as deere  co de rose 037 to 31654 general electric co ge rose 035 to 6813 and cummins inc cmi rose 022 to 20613 trading volume 22 m remained 932336 below its 50day average volume of 31 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