Caterpillar CAT Price / sales
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Caterpillar’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
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 price / sales?
- Caterpillar (CAT) reported price / sales of 4.7× in Q1 2026.
- How has Caterpillar's price / sales changed year-over-year?
- Caterpillar's price / sales increased by 87.0% year-over-year, from 2.5× to 4.7×.
- What is the long-term trend for Caterpillar's price / sales?
- Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Caterpillar's price / sales has grown at a 6.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 9.8× to 12.7×.
- What does price / sales mean?
- How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual sales.
- How do you interpret price / sales?
- Useful when earnings are negative or volatile (e.g. early-stage or cyclical firms). Only comparable across companies with similar margins — a sales dollar is worth more at a high-margin business.
- How does price / sales compare across companies?
- Best compared within a margin cohort; a software P/S and a retailer P/S are not directly comparable.