Caterpillar (CAT) came out with quarterly earnings of 5.60pershare,beatingtheZacksConsensusEstimateof5.12 per share. This compares to earnings of 4.91pershareayearago.Thesefiguresareadjustedfornon−recurringitems.Thisquarterlyreportrepresentsanearningssurpriseof9.384.76 per share when it actually produced earnings of $5.23, delivering a surprise of 9.87%. Over the last four qua ...