CATERPILLAR INC

Caterpillar manufactures heavy machinery, engines, industrial gas turbines, and locomotives, alongside customer financing and insurance services. The company operates through four reportable segments: Construction Industries, Resource Industries, Power & Energy, and Financial Products. Its machinery units deliver earthmoving, paving, excavation, and mining equipment, as well as fleet management technology. The energy segment provides reciprocating engines, generator sets, turbines, and rail systems. Customers span the infrastructure, general construction, quarry, surface and underground mining, oil and gas, marine, and power generation sectors.

The company employs approximately 118,000 full-time personnel globally across North America, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It distributes products through a network of 41 domestic and 109 international dealers serving 190 countries, with additional distributor networks for Perkins Engines and FG Wilson products. It also directly operates a dealership in Japan. While the provided text notes incorporation in Delaware, it does not state a corporate headquarters.

Summary of the business section of Caterpillar's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

“As of December 31, 2025, we employed about 118,000 full-time persons of whom approximately 66,400 were located outside the United States.”