shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 028 higher to 21544 monday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 000 to 3294524 and the sp 500 index spx falling 074 to 417311 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains caterpillar inc closed 3125 short of its 52week high 24669 which the company reached on june 4th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors monday as deere  co de rose 112 to 39386 general electric co ge rose 018 to 9245 and cummins inc cmi rose 127 to 19777 trading volume 35 m remained 676152 below its 50day average volume of 42 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