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A reliable investment strategy: Identify a widely diversified portfolio of high-quality stocks and build up additional holdings at favorable prices.
DRIPs can help you do that.
Even small investors can follow such a strategy by investing through dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs). That's because it takes ownership of only a single share of company stock to establish an account. Therefore, there is nothing to stop you from buying companies in a variety of industries.
As for buying at favorable prices, dollar-cost averaging virtually assures that you will buy most shares at favorable prices. And DRIPs provide an excellent way to dollar-cost average. These plans allow you to invest cash amounts to buy shares directly from the company. Once you are enrolled in a plan, you can invest amounts of as little as $25 or $50 (or as much as you can afford) to buy shares or fractions of shares. That's different than the traditional way to invest, which is to pay brokerage fees to buy a certain number of shares.
Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT)
Available from the Temper Enrollment Service: Yes
Last Update On: 07/19/2019:
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, cold planers, feller bunchers, harvesters, motorgraders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, skidders, telehandlers, and utility vehicles backhoe, knuckleboom, compact track, multi-terrain, skid steer, and track-type loaders forestry and wheel excavators and site prep and track-type tractors. The company's Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, track-type tractors, mining trucks, longwall miners, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wheel tractor scrapers, wheel dozers, landfill and soil compactors, machinery components, electronics and control systems, select work tools, and hard rock continuous mining systems. Its Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engine powered generator sets reciprocating engines and integrated systems for the power generation, marine, oil, and gas industries turbines, centrifugal gas compressors, and related services remanufactured reciprocating engines and components and diesel-electric locomotives and components, and other rail-related products. The company's Financial Products segment provides operating and finance leases, installment sale contracts, working capital loans, and wholesale financing and insurance and risk management products. Its All Other operating segment manufactures filters and fluids, undercarriage, ground engaging tools, fluid transfer products, precision seals, and rubber sealing and connecting components parts distribution integrated logistics solutions and distribution services and digital investments services. The company was formerly known as Caterpillar Tractor Co. and changed its name to Caterpillar Inc. in 1986. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. **Taken from Yahoo Finance**
| Industry: | Heavy machinery |
| Minimum Investment: | $25.00 |
| Maximum Investment: | 250,000/year |
| Shares to qualify: | 1 |
| Recent Price: | 145.53 |
| Investing Fee: | $2.50+3¢/sh. |
| Fee for Dividends: | Less than 200 Shares Co. pays fee, More than 200 sh. 5% of div. max $3 |
! = Company pays fees
Information is based on an annual survey and updated when company changes become available.