Caterpillar CAT Earnings yield
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Caterpillar’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Caterpillar’s 10-Q, filed May 6, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Caterpillar's earnings yield?
- Caterpillar (CAT) reported earnings yield of 2.9% in Q1 2026.
- How has Caterpillar's earnings yield changed year-over-year?
- Caterpillar's earnings yield decreased by 54.6% year-over-year, from 6.3% to 2.9%.
- What is the long-term trend for Caterpillar's earnings yield?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Caterpillar's earnings yield has grown at a 2.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 17.2% to 19.1%.
- What does earnings yield mean?
- The company's annual profit as a percentage of its market price — the flip side of the P/E.
- How do you interpret earnings yield?
- Higher means more earnings per dollar invested. Easy to compare directly against bond yields to judge the relative attractiveness of equity.
- How does earnings yield compare across companies?
- Comparable across profitable companies and against fixed-income yields; undefined when earnings are negative.