Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity

Securities.

Common Stock (NYSE: CAT)

Listing Information: Caterpillar common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States, and on stock exchanges in France and Switzerland.

Number of Shareholders: Shareholders of record at the end of 2020 totaled 23,299, compared with 25,985 at the end of 2019.

Performance Graph: Total Cumulative Shareholder Return for Five-Year Period Ending December 31, 2020

The graph below shows the cumulative shareholder return assuming an investment of $100 on December 31, 2015, and reinvestment of dividends issued thereafter.

Non-U.S. Employee Stock Purchase Plans

As of December 31, 2020, we had 28 employee stock purchase plans (the “EIP Plans”) administered outside the United States for our non-U.S. employees, which had approximately 13,000 active participants in the aggregate. During the fourth quarter of 2020, approximately 91,000 shares of Caterpillar common stock were purchased by the EIP Plans pursuant to the terms of such plans.

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

In July 2018, the Board approved a share repurchase authorization of up to $10.0 billion of Caterpillar common stock effective January 1, 2019, with no expiration (the “2018 Authorization”). As of December 31, 2020, approximately $4.8 billion remained available under the 2018 Authorization. Due to current economic uncertainty, we temporarily suspended our share repurchase program during the second half of 2020. The existing share repurchase program remains authorized by the Board, and we may resume share repurchases in the future at any time depending upon market conditions, our capital needs and other factors.