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Caterpillar (CAT) Free Cash Flow (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar has reported Free Cash Flow over the past 17 years, most recently at $1.8 billion for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Free Cash Flow at $1.8 billion for Q4 2025, down 86.85% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was $8.9 billion (down 17.49% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was $8.9 billion, down 17.49%.
  • Free Cash Flow for Q4 2025 was $1.8 billion at Caterpillar, down from $4.0 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Free Cash Flow for CAT hit a ceiling of $13.6 billion in Q4 2024 and a floor of -$7.4 billion in Q3 2021.
  • Median Free Cash Flow over the past 5 years was $1.9 billion (2021), compared with a mean of $2.2 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Free Cash Flow: plummeted 631.33% in 2021 and later soared 1000.68% in 2025.
  • Caterpillar's Free Cash Flow stood at $9.9 billion in 2021, then crashed by 76.78% to $2.3 billion in 2022, then surged by 55.51% to $3.6 billion in 2023, then soared by 280.21% to $13.6 billion in 2024, then tumbled by 86.85% to $1.8 billion in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Free Cash Flow were $1.8 billion (Q4 2025), $4.0 billion (Q3 2025), and $2.1 billion (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.