Caterpillar's Board of directors voted Wednesday to maintain it's quarterly cash dividend of 46 cents per share of common stock.  It will be available to stockholders of record at the close of business January 20th.  The dividend will be payable February 18th.  CAT has paid higher dividends to stockholders for 18 years running.  A cash dividend has been paid every year since the company was founded in 1925. The dividend has moe than tripled since 1998.  Big Yellow predicts about $58 billion dollars in sales and revenues for 2011.  The expected 2011 profit will be $6.75 cents.