Caterpillar Inc.
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Key facts
- Trade name
- CAT
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- NYSE : CAT DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
- Industry
- Heavy equipment Engines Financial services
- Predecessor
- C. L. Best Tractor Company Holt Manufacturing Company
- Founded
- April 15, 1925 ; 101 years ago ( 1925-04-15 ) in California , U.S.
- Founders
- C.L. Best Benjamin Holt
- Headquarters
- Irving, Texas , U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Joe Creed ( chairman & CEO )
- Products
- Products List D11 Bulldozer 345C L Excavator 930G Wheel Loader 797F Haul Truck C13 Diesel Engine C32 Diesel/Gasoline Engine C280 Diesel/Gasoline Engine
- Services
- Services List Financing Insurance Maintenance Training
- Revenue
- US$ 67.6 billion (2025)
- Operating income
- US$11.2 billion (2025)
- Net income
- US$8.88 billion (2025)
- Total assets
- US$98.6 billion (2025)
- Total equity
- US$21.3 billion (2025)
- Number of employees
- 118,000 (2025)
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Caterpillar Inc. (often shortened to CAT) is an American construction, mining, and other engineering equipment manufacturer. The company is the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment. In 2018, Caterpillar was ranked number 73 on the Fortune 500 list and number 265 on the Global Fortune 500 list. Caterpillar stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Caterpillar Inc. traces its origins to the 1925 merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1986, the company reorganized itself as a Delaware corporation under the current name, Caterpillar Inc. It announced in January 2017 that over the course of that year, it would relocate its headquarters from Peoria, Illinois, to Deerfield, Illinois, scrapping plans from 2015 of building an $800 million new headquarters complex in downtown Peoria. Its headquarters are located in Irving, Texas, since 2022.
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