Caterpillar CAT Interest coverage
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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 interest coverage?
- Caterpillar (CAT) reported interest coverage of 6.1× in Q4 2025.
- How has Caterpillar's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
- Caterpillar's interest coverage decreased by 19.5% year-over-year, from 7.5× to 6.1×.
- What is the long-term trend for Caterpillar's interest coverage?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Caterpillar's interest coverage has grown at a 0.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 25.1× to 25.6×.
- What does interest coverage mean?
- How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
- How do you interpret interest coverage?
- Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
- How does interest coverage compare across companies?
- Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.