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Caterpillar sells construction equipment and power-generation products, earning revenue primarily from equipment sales supported by customer demand, volume and pricing. The company serves construction and other industrial equipment buyers, while its power business serves customers needing generation and related power solutions. In the second quarter, power sales were almost as large as construction-equipment sales, highlighting a more balanced mix than Caterpillar’s traditional identity suggests. Caterpillar reported $67.6 billion of fiscal 2025 revenue and $8.9 billion of net income, compared with $64.8 billion and $10.8 billion, respectively, in fiscal 2024.
Caterpillar rose $35.69, or 4.24%, from $840.85 to $876.54 across the supplied week, although the path was volatile. Shares fell 6.9% to $782.71 on July 29 after Baird downgraded the stock to Neutral from Outperform and cut its target to $900 from $1,200. The stock then recovered as second-quarter results beat estimates, with sales and revenues rising 24% year over year to a record $20.5 billion on higher volume and pricing. Tuesday’s 11.0% jump, on 6.2 million shares, also reflected a broad market rally tied to strong technology earnings, lower crude prices and hopes for Middle East de-escalation.
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