Sentiment · FY2026 Q1
What companies say about each other on earnings calls — extracted verbatim from public transcripts. Mentions from the newest quarter are a Pro feature.
“NVIDIA's powered robots and autonomous machines for leading companies, including Boston Dynamics Caterpillar, FranKaufman Hall Robotics, LG Electronics and NEURA Robotics.”
Caterpillar named among leading companies building robots and autonomous machines on NVIDIA's robotics platform.
“you had the session with Caterpillar at the Consumer Electronics Show.”
WM and Caterpillar, a heavy-equipment supplier, held a joint session at CES tied to WM's connected-landfill and heavy-equipment technology efforts, signaling a technology-oriented supplier relationship.
“I recall coming into the year as well, we talked about a headwind from just changes in the Cat JV.”
Trimble's machine-control joint venture with Caterpillar (Cat) saw changes flagged as a Field Systems headwind, though machine control remained strong through the year.
“And then follow on would be just thoughts on the first new build order from Progress Rail in a long time. Is that likely to see something you're seeing increasing competitive step back in?”
An analyst flagged Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail winning its first new-build locomotive order in a long time as a sign of renewed competition; Wabtec declined to comment on the specific order but stood by its Tier 4 portfolio.
“in fact, if you look at the -- I think results this week of Caterpillar, they are seeing that, and they're one of our major customers in those midsized turbines.”
Howmet names Caterpillar as a major midsized-turbine customer benefiting from data-center-driven demand, a positive read-through on Caterpillar's turbine business.
“the Caterpillar JV that you guys have been involved with”
An analyst references Trimble's long-standing machine-control joint venture with Caterpillar as Trimble expands mixed-fleet OEM partnerships.
“they both Cat and Cummins have announced expansion plans for capacity in those diesel engine -- in the diesel engine production capacity that will come online in the next several years”
Caterpillar is one of the dominant large-bore diesel engine manufacturers expanding capacity to serve data center backup power demand, a market Generac is now entering as a competitor.
“At an OEM level, we renewed our cat relationship last year, as you know, and a big congrats to gen and Joe in that transition, they've just gone at the CEO level.”
Trimble renewed its OEM relationship with Caterpillar, part of its go-to-market strategy for civil construction technology partnerships.
“we talked about this before with some of the changes to the JV -- with the CAT JV. We've shifted some of the margins that were in our equity investment income line into the OpEx.”
Trimble's CFO explains an accounting shift in its long-standing Caterpillar joint venture (product sold into the JV), moving margin recognition from equity investment income into operating expense, which helped Field Systems segment margins.
“we also, you know, announced partnerships with Vertiv.”
Caterpillar is partnering with Vertiv to make data-center power solutions more cost-effective and efficient.
“yesterday, we announced an order for two gigawatts of reciprocating generator sets for a prime power application from American Intelligence and Power Corporation.”
Caterpillar booked a two-gigawatt reciprocating generator order from American Intelligence and Power Corporation for its Monarch data center campus.
“last month Caterpillar and Sotrak, our dealer in Brazil, announced an agreement to provide Vale with an autonomy solution for a mixed fleet of more than 90 trucks.”
Caterpillar won an agreement to provide mining company Vale with an autonomous solution for a mixed fleet of 90+ trucks.
“We are also pleased by healthy orders for the prime power applications as evidenced by recent announcements with Joule Capital Partners and Hunt Energy Company.”
Caterpillar cites a prime-power order announcement with Hunt Energy Company as evidence of strong power-generation demand.
“We are also pleased by healthy orders for the prime power applications as evidenced by recent announcements with Joule Capital Partners and Hunt Energy Company.”
Caterpillar cites a prime-power order announcement with Joule Capital Partners as evidence of data-center-driven Energy & Transportation demand.
| Analyst | Firm | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Tami Zakaria | JPMorgan | 6 (17%) |
| Mike Feniger | Bank of America | 6 (0%) |
| Jamie Cook | Truist Securities | 6 (0%) |
| Rob Wertheimer | Melius Research | 6 (0%) |
| Dave Raso | Evercore ISI | 6 (50%) |
| Kristen Owen | Oppenheimer | 5 (0%) |
| Kyle Menges | Citigroup | 5 (0%) |
| Mig Dobre | Robert W. Baird | 5 (0%) |
| Jerry Revich | Wells Fargo | 4 (0%) |
| Chad Dillard | Bernstein | 4 (0%) |
| Firm | Analysts | Questions (Challenge)Percentage of questions scored as challenging — where the analyst pushed back, pressed for specifics, or questioned management's assumptions. |
|---|---|---|
| Bank of America | 1 | 6 (0%) |
| Evercore ISI | 1 | 6 (50%) |
| JPMorgan | 1 | 6 (17%) |
| Melius Research | 1 |
Caterpillar set records across the board with full-year sales of $67.6 billion and Q4 sales of $19.1 billion, both all-time highs. Backlog reached $51 billion, up 71% year-over-year, with strong orders across all segments. The company introduced FY2026 guidance for sales growth of approximately 7% and returned $7.9 billion to shareholders. Power and Energy sales to users grew 37% with Power Generation up 44%.
Demand | Pricing | Margin | Capex Investment | Trade Tariffs | Competitive Dynamics | Revenue Growth | Guidance Reliability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2025Q1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2025Q2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2025Q3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025Q4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2026Q1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| '24Q4 | '25Q1 | '25Q2 | '25Q3 | '25Q4 | '26Q1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demand | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| Pricing | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Margin | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Capex Investment | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Trade Tariffs | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
| Competitive Dynamics | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
| Revenue Growth | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Guidance Reliability | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 (0%) |
| Truist Securities | 1 | 6 (0%) |
| Oppenheimer | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| Robert W. Baird | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| Citigroup | 1 | 5 (0%) |
| Company | Score | Trend | Rev YoY |
|---|---|---|---|
CAT Caterpillar Inc. | 9 | +22.2% | |
| DE Deere & Company | 6 | +6.7% | |
| PCAR Paccar | 1 | -16.2% |