Caterpillar Inc.
Caterpillar Inc. is classed by the SEC under Construction Machinery & Equip (industry code 3531), based in Irving, TX. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, it reported revenue of $68 billion and a profit of $8.9 billion (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a product business: prior from its industry code (SEC 3531, Construction Machinery & Equip); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 6.7 out of ten, 9 of 9 metrics filed: past 6.8 out of ten, present 6.9 out of ten, future 6.2 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 6.9 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 69th percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 5.6 out of ten. +6.4% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 9 of 10. 56th percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Shareholder treatment (past): 9.3 out of ten. Share count shrank 3.8% a year. 70% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 92 sales, 2 purchases. 93rd percentile among 6 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 6.8 out of ten. ROE 42%: 42¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 78%: owes 78¢ per asset dollar. 69th percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 8.1 out of ten. top 19% of 8 in its family; net margin 13.1%. 81st percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Leadership (present): 5.0 out of ten. top 50% of 5 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025. 50th percentile among 5 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 7.5 out of ten. top 25% of 8 in its family for room to expand. 75th percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Growth drivers (future): 5.9 out of ten. top 41% of 8 in its family for growth drivers. 59th percentile among 8 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Expectations vs reality (future): 4.0 out of ten. bottom 40% of 7 in its family for expectations against reality. 40th percentile among 7 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13 for the period ended 2025-12-31 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-08-05 for the period ended 2026-06-30 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-08-04 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 4, 2026-10-01. Filings on record since 1994. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Where the revenue comes from
Product and service lines in fiscal 2025: Machinery Power Energy 95%, Financial Products 5%. By geography: North America 54%, EMEA 19%, Asia Pacific 17%, Latin America 10%. As tagged in its annual report (Form 10-K, filed 2026-02-13).
Who runs it
Creed, Joseph E (Chief Executive Officer); Umpleby, III Donald J (Executive Chairman); Kaiser, Jason (Group President); Johnson, Denise C (Group President); Fassino, Anthony D. (Group President); De, Lange Bob (Group President); Shurman, Rodney Michael (Group President); Epley, Kyle Joseph (Chief Financial Officer); Bonfield, Andrew R J (CFO Emeritus); Schaupp, William E (Chief Accounting Officer); and 11 more. 21 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-10-01.
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