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Caterpillar (CAT) EBT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar has reported EBT Margin over the past 17 years, most recently at 15.82% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put EBT Margin at 15.82% for Q4 2025, down 418.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 17.08% (down 356.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 17.08%, down 356.0%.
  • EBT Margin for Q4 2025 was 15.82% at Caterpillar, down from 17.73% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, EBT Margin for CAT hit a ceiling of 22.36% in Q1 2024 and a floor of 12.65% in Q4 2022.
  • Median EBT Margin over the past 5 years was 17.39% (2022), compared with a mean of 17.61%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBT Margin: surged 1019bps in 2021 and later crashed -592bps in 2022.
  • Caterpillar's EBT Margin stood at 18.57% in 2021, then plummeted by -32bps to 12.65% in 2022, then skyrocketed by 50bps to 19.03% in 2023, then rose by 5bps to 20.0% in 2024, then fell by -21bps to 15.82% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBT Margin were 15.82% (Q4 2025), 17.73% (Q3 2025), and 17.01% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.