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Caterpillar (CAT)

The world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, whose engines and turbines also power data-center backup generation — a growing AI-era demand driver.

Legal name
Caterpillar Inc.
Ticker
CAT
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange · MIC XNYS
Country
United States
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Construction & mining equipment
Market cap ≈
$367.9bn — computed, not copied: 0.460bn shares × $800.25 close on 2026-08-28
Reporting currency
USD
Founded
1925
Website
www.caterpillar.com
LEI
WRJR7GS4GTRECRRTVX92 (GLEIF)
ISIN
US1491231015 (check digit validated)
FIGI
BBG001S5PJ06 (share class, OpenFIGI)

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lists_onNew York Stock Exchange
domiciled_inUnited States member_ofS&P 500

Sector peers — Industrials

Compare: CAT vs SIE · CAT vs GE · CAT vs HON

How this market cap is arrived at

Shares outstanding459,674,889
Basisoutstanding
As of2026-06-30
SourceSEC 10-Q cover page (2026-06-30)
Price800.25 USD · CAT · close 2026-08-28
VenueNYSE
Market cap$367.9bn

Single common class. Caterpillar has ~814m shares issued and holds ~355m in treasury; the outstanding figure above is the correct market-cap base. Aggressive buyback — expect several million shares of decline per quarter.

Share counts move on a filing cadence, prices move continuously — so this figure is exact only as of the two dates above, and we publish both rather than a single undated number. Provenance.

Fundamentals

From the 10-K for the year ended 2025-12-31USDAs reported
Revenueus-gaap:Revenues $67.6bn
Operating incomeus-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss $11.2bn
Net incomeus-gaap:ProfitLoss $8.9bn
Research & developmentus-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense $2.1bn
Total assetsus-gaap:Assets $98.6bn
Shareholders' equityus-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest $21.3bn
Cash & equivalentsus-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue $10.0bn

Net margin 13.1% — net income divided by revenue, both from this same filing.
Market cap / net income 41.4× — a market value from 2026-08-28 divided by earnings for a year that ended 2025-12-31. The two dates are far apart on purpose: this is arithmetic on two published numbers, not a valuation.

Every figure above is read from the same 10-K, filed 2026-02-13, and each row names the XBRL tag it came from so it can be checked against the document. Metrics absent from that filing are absent here rather than sourced from a different year — a table mixing periods is individually true and collectively meaningless.

Identifier crosswalk

StandardValueWhat it answers
Ticker CAT Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets
MIC XNYS ISO 10383 — the venue
ISIN US1491231015 ISO 6166 — the security
LEI WRJR7GS4GTRECRRTVX92 ISO 17442 — the legal entity
FIGI BBG001S5PJ06 OpenFIGI — instrument, share class
CUSIP 149123101 Derived from the US/CA ISIN, check digit verified — licensed identifier, not republished as data

6 naming systems for one entity — only codes we actually hold are listed, with no gaps filled by guessing. Sources: LEI from GLEIF (CC0), ISIN read from the issuer's own primary listing document, with its ISO 6166 check digit validated, FIGI from OpenFIGI (open standard), MIC from the ISO 10383 registry. CUSIP appears because it is arithmetically embedded in US and Canadian ISINs — we derive and verify it from a code we already hold, and we do not redistribute CUSIP Global Services data. Each linked code opens its reverse-lookup page; the validator checks any code's check digit. seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30.

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

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