Caterpillar Inc. (often shortened to CAT) is an American Fortune 100 corporation that designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, markets, and sells machinery, engines, financial products, and insurance to customers via a worldwide dealer network.
| Revenue (TTM) | $77.77B |
| Gross Profit (TTM) | $23.50B |
| EBITDA | $17.47B |
| Operating Margin | 20.80% |
| Return on Equity | 56.10% |
| Return on Assets | 9.42% |
| Revenue/Share (TTM) | $168.24 |
| Book Value | $46.95 |
| Price-to-Book | 11.79 |
| Price-to-Sales (TTM) | 3.29 |
| EV/Revenue | 3.737 |
| EV/EBITDA | 16.18 |
| Quarterly Earnings Growth (YoY) | 46.10% |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth (YoY) | 17.30% |
| Shares Outstanding | $457.59M |
| Float | $456.14M |
| % Insiders | 0.22% |
| % Institutions | 73.74% |
Volatility is currently expanding
IRVING, Texas, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Group President of Construction Industries Rod Shurman is expected to participate in a fireside chat hosted by Chad Dillard of Bernstein in North Carolina on Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 11:15 a.m. to noon ET.
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Caterpillar Inc. CAT delivered a strong third-quarter 2026 performance, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimates for revenues and earnings while reporting year-over-year growth in both metrics. A record $78.1 billion order backlog, expanding margins and stronger cash flow further underscored the company's operating momentum.
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Caterpillar's record $78B backlog and surging power demand fuel capacity expansion, while tariffs, manufacturing costs and production constraints lower margins.
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Caterpillar's NYSE: CAT stock price is tumbling in early November, but the sell-off may be overshadowing the company's evolving business. Investors are weighing its traditional role as a heavy machinery original equipment manufacturer (OEM), vulnerable to cyclical downturns, against its shift into a next-gen operator.
IRVING, Texas, Nov. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has acquired John Fabick Tractor Company (Fabick), a long-standing Cat® dealer with more than 100 years of trusted service and customer relationships across portions of Missouri, Illinois, the entire state of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Caterpillar entered into an agreement to acquire Fabick in September.
Caterpillar has shed nearly 30% in six months while sitting on a backlog that stretched delivery timelines deep into the next decade, and one global bank sees something Wall Street is missing entirely.
Order backlog reached a record $78 billion in the third quarter. Power generation sales to users grew 75% on data center demand.
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