shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 030 higher to 25360 wednesday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 074 to 447216 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 025 to 3434743 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains caterpillar inc closed 1244 below its 52week high 26604 which the company achieved on january 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors wednesday as deere  co de fell 148 to 40767 trading volume 30 m remained 124351 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