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CATERPILLAR INC: retained earnings or deficit

Retained earnings or deficit for CATERPILLAR INC. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.

All CATERPILLAR INC financial histories

What this measure means

Accumulated undistributed earnings or deficit at the reporting date. This balance is not cash available for distribution.

Exact concept: us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit. Each value is a balance at the reporting date, not a flow earned over a year. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-12-31 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Retained earnings or deficit in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
At date2025-12-3165,448,000,000USD2026-02-1310-K · 0000018230-26-000008
At date2024-12-3159,352,000,000USD2026-02-1310-K · 0000018230-26-000008
At date2023-12-3151,250,000,000USD2025-02-1410-K · 0000018230-25-000008
At date2022-12-3143,514,000,000USD2024-02-1610-K · 0000018230-24-000009
At date2021-12-3139,282,000,000USD2023-02-1510-K · 0000018230-23-000011
At date2020-12-3135,167,000,000USD2022-02-1610-K · 0000018230-22-000050
At date2019-12-3134,437,000,000USD2021-02-1710-K · 0000018230-21-000063
At date2019-01-0130,662,000,000USD2020-02-1910-K · 0000018230-20-000056
At date2018-12-3130,427,000,000USD2020-02-1910-K · 0000018230-20-000056
At date2018-01-0126,289,000,000USD2019-02-1410-K · 0000018230-19-000034
At date2017-12-3126,301,000,000USD2019-02-1410-K · 0000018230-19-000034
At date2016-12-3127,377,000,000USD2018-02-1510-K · 0000018230-18-000042
At date2015-12-3129,246,000,000USD2017-02-1510-K · 0000018230-17-000041
At date2014-12-3133,887,000,000USD2016-02-1610-K · 0000018230-16-000410
At date2013-12-3131,854,000,000USD2015-02-1710-K · 0000018230-15-000061
At date2012-12-3129,558,000,000USD2015-02-1710-K · 0000018230-15-000061
At date2011-12-3125,219,000,000USD2014-02-1810-K · 0000018230-14-000058
At date2010-12-3121,384,000,000USD2013-02-1910-K · 0000018230-13-000075
At date2009-12-3119,711,000,000USD2012-02-2110-K · 0001104659-12-011331
At date2008-12-3119,826,000,000USD2011-02-2210-K · 0001104659-11-008938
At date2007-12-3117,398,000,000USD2010-02-1910-K · 0000018230-10-000092

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Entity
CATERPILLAR INC / CIK 0000018230
Captured
2026-09-19T14:44:47.431Z
SEC response SHA-256
01ddc6ffa741f0a7da440e2949b2ed19cec14fab35435a398e3f3d0100019715

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

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Read the published dataset with Python
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000018230.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))