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

Caterpillar (CAT) has 17 years of Return on Sales data on record, last reported at 0.12% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales fell 5.0% year-over-year to 0.12%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.13%, down 4.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.13%, 4.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.12% in Q4 2025 per CAT's latest filing, down from 0.13% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.18% in Q1 2024 and bottomed at 0.09% in Q4 2022.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.14%, with a median of 0.13% recorded in 2022.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: grew 9bps in 2021, then dropped -7bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.15% in 2021, then tumbled by -43bps to 0.09% in 2022, then surged by 78bps to 0.16% in 2023, then grew by 10bps to 0.17% in 2024, then dropped by -29bps to 0.12% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Sales were 0.12% in Q4 2025, 0.13% in Q3 2025, and 0.13% in Q2 2025.