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

Caterpillar (CAT) has 17 years of Return on Assets data on record, last reported at 0.09% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Assets fell 3.0% year-over-year to 0.09%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.09%, down 3.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.09%, 3.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Assets reached 0.09% in Q4 2025 per CAT's latest filing, down from 0.1% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Assets topped out at 0.13% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 0.04% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Assets over 5 years is 0.1%, with a median of 0.09% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Assets: fell -3bps in 2021, then grew 5bps in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Assets shows it stood at 0.08% in 2021, then grew by 4bps to 0.08% in 2022, then surged by 44bps to 0.12% in 2023, then grew by 5bps to 0.12% in 2024, then fell by -26bps to 0.09% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Assets were 0.09% in Q4 2025, 0.1% in Q3 2025, and 0.11% in Q2 2025.