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Caterpillar Inc. is soliciting proxies for its 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held virtually on June 10, 2026, covering director elections, auditor ratification, an advisory vote on executive pay and a shareholder proposal on written consent rights. The board recommends voting for ten director nominees, for PricewaterhouseCoopers as independent auditor, for executive compensation and against the written-consent proposal. The proxy highlights strong 2025 performance, including record sales and revenues of $67.6 billion, operating profit of $11.2 billion and profit per share of $18.81. Adjusted operating profit margin was 17.2%, MP&E free cash flow reached $9.5 billion and $7.9 billion was returned to shareholders via repurchases and dividends, while backlog rose to a record $51 billion, up 71% year over year.
Caterpillar Inc. reported a strong first quarter 2026 with sales and revenues of $17.4 billion, up 22% from $14.2 billion a year earlier. Growth was driven mainly by $2.3 billion in higher sales volume and $426 million of favorable pricing across all three primary segments.
Profit per share rose to $5.47 from $4.20, with adjusted profit per share increasing to $5.54 from $4.25. Operating profit reached $3.085 billion, up 20%, though the operating margin edged down to 17.7% from 18.1% as higher tariff-driven manufacturing costs and higher compensation offset some of the volume and price benefits.
Construction Industries sales climbed 38% to $7.161 billion and segment profit increased 50% to $1.535 billion, while Power & Energy sales grew 22% to $7.031 billion and profit rose 13% to $1.450 billion. Resource Industries sales increased 4% to $3.797 billion, but segment profit fell 39% to $378 million due to higher manufacturing costs. Enterprise operating cash flow was $1.9 billion, and the company deployed $5.0 billion for share repurchases and $0.7 billion for dividends in the quarter.
Vanguard Capital Management reports beneficial ownership of 34,776,099 shares of Caterpillar Inc. The filing states Vanguard holds 34,776,099 shares (7.47%) of Common Stock with 4,541,646 shares of sole voting power and 34,776,099 shares of sole dispositive power, reported as of 03/31/2026. The Schedule 13G lists Vanguard funds and affiliated investment divisions as the basis for the reporting aggregation. The filing is signed on 04/29/2026 by Vanguard's Head of Global Fund Administration.
Creed Joseph E reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Caterpillar Inc. Chief Executive Officer Joseph E. Creed received 19 Phantom Stock Units as a compensation award. The units are tied to Caterpillar common stock under the company’s non-qualified deferred compensation plan and are economically equivalent to 19 shares of common stock.
Footnotes state that 10 units were credited to his Supplemental Deferred Compensation Plan account at a price of $830.79 per share and 9 units were contributed for no consideration. Following this grant, his total Phantom Stock Unit balance in the plan is 11,409 units, which will be settled 100% in cash upon retirement or separation from service.
Caterpillar Inc. announced that its board of directors has determined to nominate Lynn Good as a director nominee for election at the Company’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. If elected, her appointment to the board will be effective on August 1, 2026.
Caterpillar Inc. is implementing a planned chief financial officer transition. The Board appointed longtime executive Kyle Epley as CFO effective May 1, 2026, succeeding Andrew R.J. Bonfield, who will retire on October 1, 2026 after eight years with the company. Bonfield will remain CFO until May 1 and then serve in an advisory role through his retirement to support a smooth handover.
The company highlights that Bonfield’s tenure coincided with record financial performance, including the highest full-year 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion and a single-quarter record of $19.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. Epley, currently senior vice president of Global Finance Services and a Caterpillar employee since 1996, brings broad experience across corporate finance, divisional CFO roles and the controller function to lead the finance organization.
MacLennan David reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Caterpillar Inc. director David MacLennan received a grant of 33 Phantom Stock Units on Caterpillar common stock equivalents. The award price is $690.44 per unit, bringing his total phantom stock units to 453. These units are granted under Caterpillar’s Director's Deferred Compensation Plan and are generally the economic equivalent of one share of common stock per unit. They will be settled 100% in cash upon his retirement or separation from service, so there was no open‑market purchase or sale of Caterpillar common shares in this transaction.
Creed Joseph E reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Caterpillar Inc. Chief Executive Officer Joseph E. Creed received a grant of 3 phantom stock units on March 26, 2026 under a non-qualified deferred compensation plan. Each unit is generally the economic equivalent of one share of Caterpillar common stock but will be settled 100% in cash at retirement or separation from service.
Following this grant and related plan activity, Creed is credited with 11,583 phantom stock units. The footnotes explain that the total includes 2 units credited at a price of $703.19 per unit and 1 unit contributed to his account for no consideration, and that unit counts can change over time due to dividend accruals and the mix of cash and stock in the underlying unitized fund.
Caterpillar Inc. has updated how it reports its business segments after moving its Rail division from the Power & Energy segment into Resource Industries, effective January 1, 2026. This change is meant to better match how the CEO evaluates performance and allocates resources.
To help investors compare periods consistently, Caterpillar furnished unaudited, recast segment data for each quarter of 2024 and 2025 and for the full years. Total sales and revenues were $67,589 million in 2025 and $64,809 million in 2024, while total assets were $98,585 million at year-end 2025.
The company emphasizes that these changes affect only segment presentation and do not change previously reported consolidated financial statements. It also clarifies how prior forward‑looking comments about Rail would map into the new structure and plans to provide updated segment-level assumptions on April 30, 2026.