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Caterpillar (CAT) Return on Assets (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar has reported Return on Assets over the past 17 years, most recently at 0.09% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Assets at 0.09% for Q4 2025, down 3.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.09% (down 3.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.09%, down 3.0%.
  • Return on Assets for Q4 2025 was 0.09% at Caterpillar, down from 0.1% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Assets for CAT hit a ceiling of 0.13% in Q2 2024 and a floor of 0.04% in Q1 2021.
  • Median Return on Assets over the past 5 years was 0.09% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.1%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Assets: decreased -3bps in 2021 and later rose 5bps in 2024.
  • Caterpillar's Return on Assets stood at 0.08% in 2021, then increased by 4bps to 0.08% in 2022, then soared by 44bps to 0.12% in 2023, then increased by 5bps to 0.12% in 2024, then dropped by -26bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Assets were 0.09% (Q4 2025), 0.1% (Q3 2025), and 0.11% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.