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Caterpillar (CAT) Debt Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar (CAT) has 17 years of Debt Ratio data on record, last reported at 0.37 in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Debt Ratio rose 1.55% year-over-year to 0.37; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.37, up 1.55%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.37, 1.55% up from the prior year.
  • Debt Ratio reached 0.37 in Q4 2025 per CAT's latest filing, up from 0.11 in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Debt Ratio topped out at 0.39 in Q4 2022 and bottomed at 0.11 in Q2 2023.
  • Average Debt Ratio over 5 years is 0.23, with a median of 0.22 recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for Debt Ratio: skyrocketed 331.82% in 2021, then plummeted 52.14% in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of Debt Ratio shows it stood at 0.38 in 2021, then rose by 1.79% to 0.39 in 2022, then dropped by 13.89% to 0.33 in 2023, then rose by 8.67% to 0.36 in 2024, then grew by 1.55% to 0.37 in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Debt Ratio were 0.37 in Q4 2025, 0.11 in Q3 2025, and 0.12 in Q2 2025.