Caterpillar Inc.

Those companies are NVIDIA.

Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Bank of America, Caterpillar Inc.

I don't know who that is.

Cat.

Taking a look at the Dow, we were flat across the course of the trading day.

Big moves were Caterpillar to the upside, Boeing to the downside.

And, of course, we are right in the thick of earnings stateside this week.

The S&P 500, six-tenths up.

There are a lot of data center work in that right now, so you know our big products.

But Caterpillar introduced a small product line several years ago.

We call it our compact line.

It's the skid steers and mini excavators that you see on the back of pickup trucks running all along Oklahoma.

You can rent it.

We have both at our rental stores all across Oklahoma and Texas.

And Caterpillar is really making us better in that with a couple of new things that are coming soon.

And then adding technology to it, we have a service commitment guarantee that's, hey, next day parts, two-day repairs.

Things like that.

Is Caterpillar a member with you guys? No.

No, they're not.

We're going to, Caterpillar needs to be a member.

This is, this is their show, by the way.

Caterpillar is everything I just described about, yes, Yimby's and, and that, that mindset of doing it the right way.

Every person we've interviewed for Caterpillar I mean, one guy had me tearing up.

I mean, he's like, he was, he had me tearing up because how he was describing the wrench hanging at the machine shop that he worked at in his early career at Caterpillar.

Please analyze the hard currency foreign... hard currency foreign earnings of the South American cone countries, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

They're buying a lot of Boeing airplanes and Caterpillar tractors and other equipment.

They're developing their farmlands for export.

We want to know how their economies are going to do it, whether they can pay back the loans.

And the congresspeople in that area are also concerned.

So they will get together and hear from Boeing that they want X.

And then maybe Caterpillar Tractor's headquartered, I forget where.

And I'm not picking on these companies per se.

To me, for a long term investor, I'm just looking for a broadening.

You know, I need to see Caterpillar kind of stop looking like a falling knife.

And Caterpillar has to report tomorrow, Thursday.

Another reason I wanted to come on is kind of just let you guys know, I think a lot of the earnings that we got over the last 12 hours, not including SK Hynix, because SK Hynix blew things out of the water, in my opinion.

Really, what was interesting were a lot of these stocks missed Wall Street estimates, or analyst estimates.

NASDAQ was the big percentage gainer, up 1.2%, adding 308 points today, 26,477 at the close.

Amongst stocks of local interest to West Virginia that were big percentage gainers or losers, Caterpillar up 3.4%.

Gained $23.42, $715.55 per share today.

FMC was up 2.1%.

Look, we're in a great position.

We supply critical components to the Vernovas, the Siemens, the Caterpillars of the world.

These are great customers, and we're happy to just stay where we are and not try to monetize on a rallying demand of turbines.

OK.