Caterpillar's board of directors have voted to maintain the quarterly cash dividend of seventy-eight cents ($0.78) per share of common stock, payable February 20, 2018, to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 22, 2018.
The company has higher dividends to its shareholders for 24 consecutive years and, since 2007, and its cash dividend has more thank doubled. Caterpillar has paid a cash dividend every year since it was formed and has paid a quarterly dividend since 1933.
