Caterpillar Inc.

CAT Industrials Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery

Caterpillar Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $67.6 billion, up 4.29% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+17.3%
EPS
+45.8%
Free cash flow
+27.4%
Total debt
+8.83%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

559.10 5.46 +0.99%
Market cap
$254.5B
P/E
21.7×
Fwd P/E
23.2×
Dividend yield
1.13%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.32
Beneish M
−2.43
Dividend safety
86/100

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) EV/FCF

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As of 5 November 2026, Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) trades at a EV/FCF of 27.7×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 14.4× (September 2015) to 61.1× (June 2026); the current reading is higher than 76% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 37.1× 70.04%
FY2024 21.8× 27.85%
FY2023 17.1× (34.37%)
FY2022 26.0× 10.42%
FY2021 23.5× (7.53%)
FY2020 25.5× 22.28%
FY2019 20.8× (8.24%)
FY2018 22.7× (13.97%)
FY2017 26.4× 12.61%
FY2016 23.4× 36.64%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Sep 2026 38.8× (28.27%)
Jun 2026 54.1× 27.42%
Mar 2026 42.5× 14.50%
Dec 2025 37.1× 19.26%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 14.4× High 61.1×
Ten-year median 22.1×
Current reading's percentile 74

EV/FCF against peers

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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