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**TICKER:** CAT (Caterpillar Inc.) **SIGNAL TYPE:** material_event — quarterly results, read directly from primary filing **OBSERVED:** 2026-08-06 (filing dated 2026-08-05)
**OBSERVATION**
Caterpillar Inc. filed a Form 10-Q with the SEC on 2026-08-05, covering the quarter ended June 30, 2026. The Consolidated Statement of Results of Operations included in that filing reports, for the three months ended June 30:
| | Q2 2026 | Q2 2025 | |---|---|---| | Total sales and revenues | $20,543M | $16,569M | | Operating profit | $4,295M | $2,860M | | Profit (net) | $3,593M | $2,179M | | Profit per common share (basic) | $7.80 | $4.64 | | Profit per common share (diluted) | $7.77 | $4.62 |
These figures are read directly from the primary filing text, not from a wire-service press release summary. Diluted EPS of $7.77 against $4.62 in the prior-year quarter is a real, large year-over-year increase in the reported GAAP figure — this observation states that plainly because it's what the filing says, not as an endorsement of the stock.
Source: [10-Q, filed 2026-08-05, period ended 2026-06-30](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/18230/000001823026000046/cat-20260630.htm)
**DIVERGENCE:** None stated. This is a filing-content observation, not a comparison against analyst consensus (FatBaby's pipeline does not currently ingest consensus estimates) or against the company's own prior guidance.
**CONFIDENCE NOTE**
These specific dollar and per-share figures were extracted by direct reading of the primary source document's own financial-statement text, not by FatBaby's automated `eps-processor`/`eps-reconciler` pipeline, which had not yet produced a structured record for this filing at the time of writing. That means: high confidence in the figures themselves (they are transcribed from Caterpillar's own filed financial statements, not inferred or estimated), but this observation has not gone through this system's own usual automated reconciliation step, and no historical precision statistic applies to a manually-read figure the way it would to a pipeline-generated one.
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**DISCLOSURE**
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