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. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 24.0%, EPS grew 68.1%, free cash flow grew 47.1% and total debt rose 10.8%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500 and Dow Jones; dividend growth for twenty-five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

729.49 9.60 −1.30%
Market cap
$338.2B
P/E
31.2×
Fwd P/E
37.6×
Dividend yield
1.07%
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 16 October 2026, Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) trades at a EV/FCF of 38.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 14.4× (September 2015) to 61.1× (June 2026); the current reading is higher than 93% 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
Jun 2026 54.1× 27.42%
Mar 2026 42.5× 14.50%
Dec 2025 37.1× 19.26%
Sep 2025 31.1× 21.21%
42 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 14.4× High 61.1×
Ten-year median 22.1×
Current reading's percentile 93

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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