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Caterpillar (CAT) EBT (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar has reported EBT over the past 17 years, most recently at $3.0 billion for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBT at $3.0 billion for Q4 2025, down 6.69% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was $11.5 billion (down 13.7% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was $11.5 billion, down 13.7%.
  • EBT for Q4 2025 was $3.0 billion at Caterpillar, down from $3.1 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBT for CAT hit a ceiling of $3.7 billion in Q2 2023 and a floor of $1.8 billion in Q3 2021.
  • Median EBT over the past 5 years was $2.7 billion (2023), compared with a mean of $2.7 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBT: soared 175.81% in 2021 and later decreased 27.24% in 2025.
  • Caterpillar's EBT stood at $2.6 billion in 2021, then decreased by 18.07% to $2.1 billion in 2022, then soared by 54.79% to $3.2 billion in 2023, then fell by 0.18% to $3.2 billion in 2024, then dropped by 6.69% to $3.0 billion in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBT were $3.0 billion (Q4 2025), $3.1 billion (Q3 2025), and $2.8 billion (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.