Caterpillar Inc. CAT
What this company does
Written from the business description in CATERPILLAR INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 13 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +10.1% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +24.2%, earnings per share at +28.1%.
The share count fell from 0.55B to 0.47B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.
Not available in our data for this period.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 67.6 | 64.8 | 67.1 | 59.4 | 51.0 | 41.7 | 53.8 | 54.7 | 45.5 | 38.5 | 47.0 | 55.2 | 55.7 | 65.9 | 60.1 | 42.6 | 32.4 | 51.3 | 45.0 |
| Operating income $B | 11.2 | 13.1 | 13.0 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 4.6 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 4.5 | 1.2 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 5.6 | 8.6 | 7.2 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| EBITDA $B | 13.4 | 15.2 | 15.1 | 10.1 | 9.2 | 7.0 | 10.9 | 11.1 | 7.3 | 4.2 | 6.8 | 6.5 | 8.7 | 11.4 | 9.7 | 6.3 | 2.9 | 6.4 | 6.7 |
| Income tax $B | 2.8 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | −0.3 | 1.0 | 1.5 |
| Net income $B | 8.9 | 10.8 | 10.3 | 6.7 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 0.8 | −0.1 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.8 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| Free cash flow $B | 8.9 | 10.0 | 11.3 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 5.3 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 1.8 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 6.3 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 18.81 | 22.05 | 20.12 | 12.64 | 11.83 | 5.46 | 10.74 | 10.26 | 1.26 | −0.11 | 4.18 | 3.90 | 5.75 | 8.48 | 7.40 | 4.15 | 1.43 | 5.66 | 5.37 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 5.94 | 5.53 | 5.10 | 4.71 | 4.36 | 4.12 | 3.95 | 3.36 | 3.11 | 3.08 | 3.01 | 2.70 | 2.32 | 2.02 | 1.82 | 1.74 | 1.68 | 1.62 | 1.38 |
| Payout % | 31 | 25 | 25 | 36 | 36 | 75 | 35 | 32 | 241 | −3049 | 70 | 66 | 29 | 28 | 23 | 40 | 115 | 27 | 24 |
| ROE % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Shares out B | 0.47 | 0.48 | 0.50 | 0.52 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.59 | 0.58 | 0.61 | 0.64 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.60 | · |
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This company against its peers
Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years.