Catepillar's board of directors have voted to maintain the quarterly cash dividend of seventy-eight cents ($0.78) per share of common stock, payable November 20, 2017, to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 23, 2017.
Upon payment of this dividend, Caterpillar will have paid higher dividends to its shareholders for 24 consecutive years and, since 2007, the company’s cash dividend has more than doubled. Caterpillar has paid a cash dividend every year since the company was formed and has paid a quarterly dividend since 1933.
