Caterpillar Inc. has grown revenue 4.9% a year over three years and 10% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 13%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +4.9% (Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery median +4.4%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +10%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +13%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 19, FY2007 to FY2025, as filed.

CATCaterpillar Inc.

Industrials

$800.38+73% 1Y

$800.38

$460.4452 weeks$1.0K

Is it growing?

Good

Growing: revenue growing +18% year on year and earnings up +18% year on year.

2 good, 1 neutral

Revenue trend+18% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +10% a year.

Earnings trend+18% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction−0.8 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 17.5% now against 18.2% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearsmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is CAT growing?

Caterpillar Inc. has grown revenue 4.9% a year over three years and 10% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 13%.

+4.9%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery median +4.4% · growing slowly · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +10%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +4.9% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +13%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +4.9% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed