Caterpillar Inc's ROA from the second quarter of 2026 to the second quarter of 2025 and 5 Year Period

Return on Assets, Quarterly Results, Trends, Rankings, Statistics

What is Caterpillar Inc's ROA in the second quarter of 2026?
Caterpillar Inc achieved a return on average assets (ROA) of 12.82 % in its second quarter of 2026, this is above CAT's average return on assets of 6.07%.
Caterpillar Incs assets during the 12 months ending in the second quarter of 2026 are valued at $84 billion

ROA has improved compared to 11.55% in the first quarter of 2026, due to net income growth.

However, within the Capital Goods sector 41 other companies had a higher return on assets. While Return on assets, overall ranking has advanced in the Jun 30 2026 quarter, so far to 609, from total ROA ranking in the first quarter of 2026 at 734.

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Return On Assets	(Jun 30 2026) II. Quarter	(Mar 31 2026) I. Quarter	(Dec 31 2025) IV. Quarter	(Sep 30 2025) III. Quarter	(Jun 30 2025) II. Quarter
Y / Y Total Assets Change	15.37 %	17.03 %	21.41 %	13.98 %	13.12 %
Y / Y Net Income Change	64.89 %	27.21 %	-13.94 %	-6.66 %	-18.72 %
Net Income (TTM) in million	10,841	9,427	8,882	9,271	9,435
Return On Assets (TTM)	12.82 %	11.55 %	11.31 %	12.4 %	13.05 %
CAT's Total Ranking	# 609	# 734	# 584	# 559	# 504
Total Assets (TTM) in million	88,245	83,699	86,455	79,737	76,490
Seq. Total Assets Change	5.43 %	-3.19 %	8.43 %	4.24 %	6.95 %
Seq. Net Income Change	41.01 %	6.12 %	4.44 %	5.51 %	8.79 %

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Return On Assets Company Ranking
Within:	No.
Industry	# 2
Sector	# 42
Overall	# 544

Return On Assets Statistics
High	Average	Low
13.1 %	6.07 %	-0.18 %
(Mar 31 2024)

Financial Statements
Caterpillar Inc's Assets	$ 88,245 million	CAT's Balance sheet
Caterpillar Inc's Income	$ 3,593 million	Quarterly CAT's Income Statement
CAT's Income by Division		See CAT's Income by Division

Annual Return On Assets	(Dec 31 2025) FY 2025	(Dec 31 2024) FY 2024	(Dec 31 2023) FY 2023	(Dec 31 2022) FY 2022	(Dec 31 2021) FY 2021
Y / Y Total Assets Change	21.41 %	-28.61 %	5.93 %	37.97 %	2.69 %
Total Assets in million	86,455	71,210	99,742	94,158	68,246
Y / Y Net Income Change	-17.67 %	4.41 %	54.12 %	3.25 %	116.22 %
Net Income in million	8,882	10,788	10,332	6,704	6,493
Annual Return On Assets	10.27 %	15.15 %	10.36 %	7.12 %	9.51 %

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Comment on CAT's ROA in the fiscal year ending 2025

In the fiscal year 2025 Caterpillar Inc's ROA decreased compared to previous year to 10.27 %, due to deterioration of net income -17.67 % to $8,882.00 million, from $10,788.00 million a year ago, as CAT's assets were $86,455.00 million.

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Date modified: 2026-09-12T18:18:28+00:00

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