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Caterpillar (CAT) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Caterpillar (CAT) has 17 years of Return on Capital Employed data on record, last reported at 0.19% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Capital Employed fell 5.0% year-over-year to 0.19%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.19%, down 5.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.2%, 4.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Capital Employed reached 0.19% in Q4 2025 per CAT's latest filing, down from 0.2% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 0.27% in Q2 2024 and bottomed at 0.09% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Capital Employed over 5 years is 0.19%, with a median of 0.19% recorded in 2025.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Capital Employed: fell -5bps in 2021, then grew 9bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Capital Employed shows it stood at 0.13% in 2021, then grew by 20bps to 0.16% in 2022, then soared by 56bps to 0.25% in 2023, then fell by -3bps to 0.24% in 2024, then fell by -22bps to 0.19% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Capital Employed were 0.19% in Q4 2025, 0.2% in Q3 2025, and 0.22% in Q2 2025.