Ekaterina KiselevaIntroduction Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) is one of the first stocks I bought for my dividend growth portfolio. Although I started investing roughly a decade before 2020, during the pandemic, I decided to get serious about long-term investing. Since then, I've consistently had between 90-100% of my net worth in long-term dividend stocks. One of the first reasons I bought Caterpillar was to add inflation protection and as a hedge against a weak dollar. As a Euro-based investor, a declining US ...