shares of caterpillar inc cat inched 019 higher to 24815 monday on what proved to be an allaround great trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 114 to 413729 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 111 to 3424593 this was the stocks second consecutive day of gains caterpillar inc closed 1789 below its 52week high 26604 which the company achieved on january 27th the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as deere  co de fell 059 to 41533 trading volume 30 m remained 298434 below its 50day average volume of 33 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