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Caterpillar Inc.

American corporation which designs, manufactures, markets and sells machinery and engines
Organization business Q459965
Caterpillar Inc.
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 19 annual filings
Revenue
$67.59B
▲ 4.3% YoY FY2025
Net Income
$8.88B
▲ 229.0% YoY FY2025
Assets
$98.58B
▲ 12.3% YoY FY2025
EPS (diluted)
$18.81
▼ 14.7% YoY FY2025
$0.00$18.59B$37.17B$55.76B$74.35B FY2007: $44.96B · NI $3.54B (7.9% margin)FY2008: $51.32B · NI $3.56B (6.9% margin)FY2009: $32.40B · NI $895.00M (2.8% margin)FY2010: $42.59B · NI $2.70B (6.3% margin)FY2011: $60.14BFY2012: $65.88BFY2013: $55.66BFY2014: $55.18BFY2015: $47.01BFY2016: $38.54BFY2017: $45.46BFY2018: $54.72BFY2019: $53.80BFY2020: $41.75BFY2021: $50.97BFY2022: $59.43BFY2023: $67.06BFY2024: $64.81BFY2025: $67.59B · NI $8.88B (13.1% margin) '07'09'11'13'15'17'19'21'23'25
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2025-12-31 · accession 0000018230-26-000013

Summary

Caterpillar Inc. is a business[1]. Caterpillar Inc. ranks in the top 0.34% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,488 views/month, #99 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Silver Anvil Award[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: enterprise[5], public company[6]
  • Owned by: The Vanguard Group[7], State Street Corporation[8], BlackRock[9]
  • Named after: caterpillar[10]
  • Follows: Clarence Leo Best[11], Holt Manufacturing Company[12]
  • Headquarters location: Irving[13]
  • Chief executive officer: Jim Umpleby[14], Joseph E. Creed[15]
  • Child organization or unit: Solar Turbines[16], Perkins Engines[17], Progress Rail Services[18], Caterpillar (United Kingdom)[19], Caterpillar Germany[20], Caterpillar (Switzerland)[21], Solar Turbines EAME[22]
  • Part of: Dow Jones Industrial Average[23], S&P 500[24], S&P 100[25], list of companies involved in the Gaza war[26]
  • Commons category: Caterpillar Inc.[27]
  • Stock exchange: New York Stock Exchange[28], Euronext Paris[29], Swiss Stock Exchange[30]
  • Industry: mechanical engineering[31]
  • Inception: January 1, 1925[32]
  • Official website: https://www.caterpillar.com/[33]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Caterpillar Inc.[34]
  • Described at URL: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/caterpillar-inc-history/[35], http://www.namebase.net:82/names/nn01.cgi?CATERPILLAR_INC_[36]
  • Employees: 85,116[37], 95,400[38], 98,400[39], 104,000[40]
  • Official name: CATERPILLAR INC.[41]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[42]
  • Short name: CAT[43]
  • Owner of: Electro-Motive Diesel[44], Perkins Engines[45]
  • Total equity: 14,080,000,000 US dollars[46]
  • Total revenue: 38,537,000,000 US dollars[47], 45,462,000,000 US dollars[48], 54,722,000,000 US dollars[49], 47,011,000,000 US dollars[50], 55,184,000,000 US dollars[51], 53,800,000,000 US dollars[52], 41,748,000,000 US dollars[53], 50,971,000,000 US dollars[54], 44,958,000,000 US dollars[55], 51,324,000,000 US dollars[56], 32,396,000,000 US dollars[57], 42,588,000,000 US dollars[58], 60,138,000,000 US dollars[59]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): WRJR7GS4GTRECRRTVX92[60]

  • Registered legal name: Caterpillar INC.[61]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[62]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[63]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[64]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[65]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[66]

  • Entity created: 1986-03-12[67]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-06-06[68]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-01-06[69]

  • LEI next renewal: 2027-01-06[70]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[71]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[72]

  • Authority entity ID: 2085588[73]

  • Conformity flag: CONFORMING[74]

Why It Matters

Caterpillar Inc. has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[75] Caterpillar Inc. is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[76]

FAQs

What awards did Caterpillar Inc. receive?

Honors received include Silver Anvil Award[3].

Related Entities

BlackRock business Electro-Motive Diesel Euronext Paris Kelly Ayotte New York Stock Exchange public company Swiss Stock Exchange The Vanguard Group United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [75] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [76] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19d ago · Bob08 · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 20w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Chief executive officer → Jim Umpleby, Joseph E. Creed
    Named after → —
    Country → United States
    Owner of → Electro-Motive Diesel, Perkins Engines
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