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Caterpillar Inc Reports Higher Quarterly and Year-to-Date Revenues, Operating Income, and Diluted EPS Versus Prior Year, with Causal Attribution Unavailable

finance · August 6, 2026

Caterpillar Inc Reports Higher Quarterly and Year-to-Date Revenues, Operating Income, and Diluted EPS Versus Prior Year, with Causal Attribution Unavailable

Key financial metrics

Reported figures from the filing; no estimates.

MetricReportedPrior-year comparable
Revenue$20,543,000,000the three months ended June 30, 2026$16,569,000,000the three months ended June 30, 2025
Operating income$4,295,000,000the three months ended June 30, 2026$2,860,000,000the three months ended June 30, 2025
Diluted earnings per share$7.77 per diluted sharethe three months ended June 30, 2026$4.62 per diluted sharethe three months ended June 30, 2025
Operating cash flow$6,241,000,000the six months ended June 30, 2026$4,411,000,000the six months ended June 30, 2025
Cash and equivalents$6,713,000,000the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026Not reported

What the sources reported

Bottom line

For the three and six months ended June of the current year, CATERPILLAR INC reported diluted earnings per share, operating income, and revenues for both the quarter and the half-year period, alongside prior-year comparatives for the same windows. The reported diluted earnings per share for the current six-month period (Earnings Per Share, Diluted) is captured in $13.23 per diluted share, with the prior-year six-month comparative in $8.82 per diluted share; the reported year-over-year comparison indicates that the current six-month diluted EPS is higher than the prior-year six-month figure, on a profit-to-profit basis. The same profit-to-profit, higher comparison applies at the quarter level between $7.77 per diluted share and $4.62 per diluted share. Operating income shows the same shape: the current six-month operating income in $7,380,000,000 is higher than the prior-year six-month operating income in $5,439,000,000, and the current-quarter operating income in $4,295,000,000 is higher than $2,860,000,000, each on a profit-to-profit basis. Revenues likewise rise on a year-over-year basis at both the half-year level ($37,958,000,000 versus $30,818,000,000) and the quarter level ($20,543,000,000 versus $16,569,000,000). The filing evidence supports no cause-and-effect claim for any of these movements; The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. applies to every line above. The filing is the company’s 10-Q for period-ended-2026-06-30, filed under accession 0000018230-26-000046 by CATERPILLAR INC (CIK 0000018230, ticker CAT). It presents unaudited consolidated results of operations, comprehensive income, financial position, shareholders’ equity, and cash flow for the three and six months ended June of the current and prior years, and the December year-end financial position data referenced for comparative balance-sheet purposes, all prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP under SEC rules. The interim nature of the statements is noted; the December year-end position information is derived from the company’s audited annual report on Form referenced in the filing. Prior-period amounts have been reclassified where needed to conform to the current presentation. The source scope for this Earnings Analysis is limited to the figures and references listed in the catalog above and the filing evidence quoted in the filing. Within that scope, the three financial dimensions above (Earnings Per Share Diluted, Operating Income, and Revenues) for both the three-month reporting period and the six-month year-to-date period, with prior-year comparatives for each, are the only quantitative claims this section supports. No peer or industry comparison is available within the filing evidence; The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. applies. Beyond the cataloged fact keys, period keys, and reference keys, the section does not attempt to compute ratios, percentages, growth rates, or differences — every comparison is expressed qualitatively as directed. No other quantitative fact, period, or reference is asserted in this section.

Financial performance

For CATERPILLAR INC (CAT), under 10-Q for period-ended-2026-06-30 (accession 0000018230-26-000046, CIK 0000018230), the income statement showed broad-based improvement versus the prior year on both the quarterly and year-to-date bases. Revenues were higher than the prior period in both the three-month and six-month comparisons, with $20,543,000,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2026 rising against $16,569,000,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and $37,958,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026 rising against $30,818,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Operating profit tracked the top line, with $4,295,000,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2026 above $2,860,000,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and $7,380,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026 above $5,439,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Diluted earnings per share likewise rose in both windows: $7.77 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the three months ended June 30, 2026 versus $4.62 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and $13.23 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus $8.82 per diluted share USD/SHARES for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Each comparison remained in profit territory, consistent with a profit-to-profit transition on each line. The reported period-on-period increases cannot be tied to a single driver from the cited material — The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Beyond the income-statement totals, several items in the notes frame the comparison baselines used by readers. The filing flags that certain prior-period amounts were reclassified to conform to the current period presentation, and notes that the company adopted new ASUs effective in January with no material impact. The cited Item 1A Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Item 6 and the disclosed notes, including Note 11 Note 12 Note 13 and the revenue disaggregation in Note 16, provide the structural context inside which the headline comparatives should be read. One additional quality-of-earnings item is the IEEPA tariff recovery. For both the three and six months ended in the second quarter, the company recorded a recovery amount tied to claims submitted and accepted through the CAPE system established by CBP, sitting in Current assets: Receivables - trade and other and in Cost of goods sold. Recovery timing for any residual claim submissions remains uncertain and was not deemed probable, so the headline figures above reflect only the recognized portion. No management numerical guidance for the next quarter was quoted in the source narrative tied to this filing window, and no separate forward quantitative outlook is reproduced here; the qualitative forward-looking items disclosed are the pending evaluation of the new expense-disaggregation and internal-use software ASUs, whose effective dates fall outside the immediate quarter. The filing contains no peer or industry benchmark data for the three or six month periods, so relative positioning against competitors is The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.. The filing evidence does not attribute the revenue, operating income or earnings-per-share movements to any single cause — The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause..

Operating drivers and segments

The filing describes CATERPILLAR INC as operating across two reportable categories it labels Machinery, Power & Energy (MP&E) and Financial Products, with MP&E covering design, manufacturing and marketing of products and Financial Products covering finance and insurance subsidiaries (primarily Cat Financial and the insurance holdings entity). The quoted narrative, however, does not assign any segment-level revenue, operating income, or margin figure, so the only operating performance available as fact keys for this section is consolidated. Revenues for the three-month reporting period the three months ended June 30, 2026 were $20,543,000,000 USD against $16,569,000,000 USD for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and Revenues for the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026 were $37,958,000,000 USD against $30,818,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Operating Income (Loss) for the same periods was $4,295,000,000 USD versus $2,860,000,000 USD and $7,380,000,000 USD versus $5,439,000,000 USD. Under the reported comparisons, both Revenues and Operating Income (Loss) increased relative to the prior-year comparative at both the quarter and half-year views, with the operating-income transition remaining profit to profit. No segment-level breakouts, margin walk, geographic or end-market mix, dealer-financing detail, or peer or industry comparison is present in the quoted evidence, so The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. applies. The filing refers readers to the cited disaggregated sales and revenues note (Note 16) and to related segment and VIE notes (Note 11, Note 12) for further information, but the corresponding numeric detail is not present in the quoted evidence for this section. Management represents the unaudited interim financial statements as a fair statement under U.S. GAAP subject only to normal recurring adjustments and cautions that interim results are not necessarily indicative of a full year. The narrative identifies one discrete reported item tied to IEEPA tariff costs that were previously incurred and describes a recovery recorded in Cost of goods sold and in Current assets: Receivables — trade and other for claims submitted and accepted through the CAPE system, while explicitly stating that the timing and amount of additional submissions remain uncertain and were not deemed probable as of the reporting date. Management also flags recently issued accounting guidance covering disaggregation of income statement expenses and internal-use software costs and indicates it is evaluating the effect of this new guidance on its disclosures and financial statements. The quoted text contains no quantified bridge from prior-year operating income to current-period operating income, so any cause for the year-over-year change is The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Operating drivers at the segment level — including volume, pricing, mix, factory absorption, and dealer-financing margin — are likewise not enumerated in the quoted evidence for this section, leaving those drivers The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. as well, and the MD&A-style narrative tying revenues and operating income to specific price, volume, or cost items is not present in the cited narrative for period-ended-2026-06-30 on 10-Q under 0000018230-26-000046 for 0000018230.

Cash flow and capital

- Operating cash generation: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities was $6,241,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026, versus $4,411,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025 — an increase year over year per the reported comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. - Investing activity: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities was -$3,439,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026, versus -$1,507,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Both periods sit in negative territory and the year-over-year direction is a decrease per the authorized comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. - Financing activity: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities was -$6,033,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026, versus -$4,345,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Both periods are negative, and the year-over-year direction is a decrease per the authorized comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Capital expenditures and capital returns: - Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment were $1,315,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus $1,265,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Both are cash outflows, and the year-over-year direction is an increase per the authorized comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. - Payments for Repurchase of Common Stock were $6,522,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus $4,488,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Both are positive cash outflows, and the year-over-year direction is an increase per the authorized comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. - Payments of Ordinary Dividends, Common Stock were $1,399,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus $1,336,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025. Both are positive cash outflows, and the year-over-year direction is an increase per the authorized comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. - The Accelerated Share Repurchase Program adjustment line is negative in both periods and moves lower year over year per the authorized comparison, with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Balance sheet snapshot at the reporting date: - Cash and Cash Equivalents, at Carrying Value stood at $6,713,000,000 USD as of the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026. - Accounts Payable, Current stood at $10,313,000,000 USD as of the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026. Capital allocation read-through: the year-to-date financing line is negative and the investing line is negative, while operating cash flow is positive — the reported pattern is one where internally generated funds support both capex and shareholder returns within the period. The catalog does not break out free cash flow, segment-level capex, or net leverage; any such derived read is outside the filing evidence and is left unsaid. Management commentary inside the filing discusses revenue recognition mechanics, contract assets and liabilities, hedging classification under the Statement of Cash Flow, and pending internal-use-software capitalization guidance, but does not attribute the year-over-year moves in operating, investing, financing, capex, buybacks, or dividends to any single cause, so each directional claim above is paired with The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison..

Peer and historical context

<analysis grounded in FACT/NOTE keys, or unknown only if none exist> <analysis grounded in FACT/NOTE keys, or unknown only if none exist> The peer and historical comparison for CATERPILLAR INC (CAT) under 10-Q for period-ended-2026-06-30 can only be drawn from the filing's own prior-year comparative columns, since The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. applies throughout this section. The filing evidence does supply a year-over-year view of revenue, operating profit and operating cash flow at both the quarter and the year-to-date half-year cut, and the reported comparisons govern how those figures are described. Revenue direction is the cleanest historical anchor. The three-month period the three months ended June 30, 2026 shows Revenues of $20,543,000,000 USD, higher than the prior-year period the three months ended June 30, 2025 figure of $16,569,000,000 USD, with the reported Revenues [quarter vs quarter_prior_year] comparison registered as an increase, causality The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The six-month half-year comparison follows the same pattern: Revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2026 of $37,958,000,000 USD versus $30,818,000,000 USD for the six months ended June 30, 2025, also an increase under the Revenues [half_year vs half_year_prior_year] authorized relation, again with causality The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The consistency between the quarter and the half-year delta suggests the top-line trend was not driven by an isolated monthly event but The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Operating profit mirrors that revenue shape. Operating Income (Loss) for the three months ended June 30, 2026 of $4,295,000,000 USD sits above the the three months ended June 30, 2025 figure of $2,860,000,000 USD (Operating Income [quarter vs quarter_prior_year]: increase, profit_to_profit, The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.). The half-year Operating Income (Loss) of $7,380,000,000 USD likewise exceeds the the six months ended June 30, 2025 comparative of $5,439,000,000 USD (Operating Income [half_year vs half_year_prior_year]: increase, profit_to_profit, The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.). Because both the quarter and the six-month reading remain in profit territory on both sides of the comparison, the transition is profit_to_profit rather than a swing from loss to profit. The cash-flow line is the third historical anchor in the filing. Operating cash flow for the six months ended June 30, 2026 of $6,241,000,000 USD is higher than the the six months ended June 30, 2025 reading of $4,411,000,000 USD, with the Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities [half_year vs half_year_prior_year] reported comparison set to increase and causality The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Investing and financing cash flow are both authorized as decreases between the two half-year periods, and the buyback, dividend and capital expenditure lines are all authorized as increases over the prior year, each with causality The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. Outside the issuer's own prior-year columns, The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison., so no relative weight, market share or industry-multiples read is supported. Segment-level context is also not available here: The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. for any peer-shaped cut. The forward-looking distribution narrative in the source material — dealer programs, unsatisfied performance obligations, hedging policy — sits outside the historical comparison dimension and is not asserted as a peer-relative observation in this section.

Scenario analysis

The base case for CATERPILLAR INC (CAT) reported under 10-Q for period-ended-2026-06-30 leans on the revenue trajectory disclosed in the consolidated statements. Revenues for the three-month reporting period the three months ended June 30, 2026 came in at $20,543,000,000 USD, higher than the prior-year comparative the three months ended June 30, 2025 reading of $16,569,000,000 USD. The six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026 produced $37,958,000,000 USD, again above the the six months ended June 30, 2025 figure of $30,818,000,000 USD. Reported facts (separated from any analyst inference). Management explanation carried through the derivative-instrument and risk-management discussion emphasises hedging of foreign currency, interest rate, commodity and deferred-compensation exposures, with policy prohibiting speculative use. Analyst inference (separated from facts). With topline growth in both the quarter and the half-year, an unchanged hedging posture and no segment-level colour available from the filing, the central path forward reads as continued top-line expansion of comparable shape. Counter-evidence. The same disclosure notes that foreign currency exchange rate movements and competitive reactions from non-U.S. competitors can erode the U.S. dollar value of results, leaving the trajectory sensitive to translation. Unknowns. The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension.. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.. A constructive variant requires the topline acceleration observed in the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus the six months ended June 30, 2025 to persist, paired with the hedging framework continuing to neutralise exchange-rate drag. The reported revenue facts — $37,958,000,000 for the year-to-date the six months ended June 30, 2026 and $20,543,000,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2026 — each sit above their prior-year comparatives of $30,818,000,000 and $16,569,000,000 respectively, supplying the factual floor. Reported facts (separated from any analyst inference). Management explanation (separated from facts) frames derivative use as a prudently managed overlay covering foreign currency, interest rate, commodity and deferred-compensation exposures, which is the mechanism by which translation volatility is contained. Analyst inference (separated from facts). If those conditions hold, gross revenue could compound on the existing half-year growth, with foreign-currency forward, option and cross-currency contracts cushioning translation effects on the diversified revenue base referenced in the disclosure. Counter-evidence. The same risk-management text cautions that competitor pricing responses and balance-sheet exposures denominated in foreign currencies remain live threats. Unknowns. The filing gives no segment mix, regional split, or order-board data, so the magnitude of the upside cannot be sized; The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. applies. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The weaker variant activates when foreign-currency translation, commodity-price moves or interest-rate shifts overwhelm the revenue gains already on the page. Reported facts (separated from any analyst inference). Revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2026 are $37,958,000,000 USD versus $30,818,000,000 USD, and the three months ended June 30, 2026 revenues are $20,543,000,000 USD versus $16,569,000,000 USD. Management explanation (separated from facts). The risk-management narrative explicitly identifies foreign currency exchange rate, interest rate, commodity price and deferred-compensation plan liability exposures as sources of fluctuation affecting earnings and cash flow, and notes that non-U.S. competitor responses can pressure pricing. Analyst inference (separated from facts). A reversal scenario would see translation drag and competitive pressure flatten the half-year growth, with the hedging overlay dampening but not eliminating the impact. Counter-evidence. Operational cash generation is referenced through the Item 3 quantitative and qualitative disclosures, but the machine-owned catalog contains no operating cash fact for this dimension, so the offsetting cushion cannot be quantified here. Unknowns. The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. prevents any segment-level read on where weakness would land first. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison..

Risks and what to watch

The next reporting cycle should be evaluated against the revenue trajectory across both the three-month and six-month year-to-date measurement windows, since the catalog exposes only four revenue data points as the quantitative backbone for this section. Risk factors and uncertainties disclosed by management live under Item 1A, and the filing pulls into Item 1 the surrounding Part II context covering legal proceedings and unregistered sales. Legal-proceedings commentary is anchored in Item 4 and the quantitative-qualitative market-risk disclosure sits in Item 3, with the rest of Part II (defaults, exhibits) covered by Item 2 and Item 6. The Risk Factors text itself, the part the audience most often scans for forward-looking exposure, is the dimension the filing evidence most directly surfaces through Item 1A, so any judgment about what management flags as a threat should be sourced back to that note rather than to inference. Counter-evidence and unknowns are narrow. The disclosed revenue base for the the three months ended June 30, 2026 reporting window is $20,543,000,000, with the comparable prior-year quarter at $16,569,000,000, and the wider the six months ended June 30, 2026 year-to-date set is $37,958,000,000 against the the six months ended June 30, 2025 comparative $30,818,000,000. The catalog does not provide earnings, margin, cash-flow, balance-sheet or share-count figures for this section, so the only year-over-year movement any reading can lean on is the revenue line itself, and even there the catalog deliberately withholds the numeric gap. Any attempt to characterize the size of the change between periods, the mix shift between segments, or the geographic split would be unsourced. Counter-narrative pressure on the revenue reading is also thin. The hedging-language passage quoted in the source narrative describes foreign-currency cash flow exposure and balance-sheet translation exposure, but no figure in the catalog attaches to those exposures, so the section cannot quantify offsetting FX effects, hedge ineffectiveness, or translation drag on $37,958,000,000 versus $30,818,000,000. Likewise, the segment, end-market and dealer-order commentary that typically tempers a top-line story is not in the catalog for this section, so The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. applies and the prose should not invent a segment bridge. Peer and industry framing is similarly absent, so The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. governs any comparison to competitors or to broader construction-and-mining demand. What to track in the next filing is correspondingly focused. First, whether the revenue line for the next three-month and six-month windows continues to print above the prior-year comparatives; the direction of movement is the only signal the catalog supports, not the magnitude. Second, the Risk Factors note under Item 1A for any incremental disclosure around currency, commodity, or end-market exposure that the current text does not enumerate. Third, the quantitative-qualitative market-risk discussion in Item 3 for the specific FX sensitivities management chooses to publish. Fourth, the legal-proceedings update carried in Item 4. Fifth, the financial-statement footnote cross-references the catalog already lists — Note 11 on the consolidated VIE and long-term receivables, Note 12 on the additional-information pointer, Note 13 on foreign currency translation and pension/postretirement benefit accounting, and Note 16 on disaggregated sales and stock-based compensation — since each of those footnotes can shift the read on revenue quality and on period-over-period comparability without changing the headline top line. Finally, the absence here of any earnings, cash-flow, or capital-return data point means the next period's earnings release should be read first for those lines before layering in any revenue-based interpretation from this filing. Causality for the revenue movement between the six months ended June 30, 2026 and the six months ended June 30, 2025, and between the three months ended June 30, 2026 and the three months ended June 30, 2025, is The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.; the filing evidence supports no attribution of the change to any single driver.

Evidence

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