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Caterpillar (CAT) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar (CAT) has 17 years of FCF Margin data on record, last reported at 61.33% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, FCF Margin rose 12993.0% year-over-year to 61.33%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 13.19%, up 1840.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 13.19%, 1840.0% up from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin reached 61.33% in Q4 2025 per CAT's latest filing, up from 33.8% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, FCF Margin topped out at 61.33% in Q4 2025 and bottomed at 68.6% in Q4 2024.
  • Average FCF Margin over 5 years is 5.28%, with a median of 12.78% recorded in 2021.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Margin: crashed -8891bps in 2024, then surged 12993bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 7.19% in 2021, then plummeted by -149bps to 3.53% in 2022, then surged by 675bps to 20.31% in 2023, then plummeted by -438bps to 68.6% in 2024, then soared by 189bps to 61.33% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for FCF Margin were 61.33% in Q4 2025, 33.8% in Q3 2025, and 12.46% in Q2 2025.