Caterpillar Inc (CAT) Company Profile

Caterpillar Inc. (Caterpillar), incorporated on March 12, 1986, is a manufacturer of construction and
mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric
locomotives. The Company principally operates through its three product segments: Resource
Industries, Construction Industries, and Energy & Transportation. The Company also provides
financing and related services through its Financial Products segment. It offers its products under
the brand names Caterpillar, CAT, design versions of CAT and Caterpillar, Electro-Motive, FG
Wilson, MaK, MWM, Perkins, Progress Rail, SEM and Solar Turbines. The Company operates parts
distribution centers at various locations, including Morton, Illinois; Arvin, California; Denver,
Colorado; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; St. Paul, Minnesota; Clayton, Ohio; York, Pennsylvania;
Waco, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Melbourne, Australia; Grimbergen, Belgium; Piracicaba, Brazil;
Shanghai, China; San Luis Potosi, Mexico; Singapore, Republic of Singapore; Moscow, Russia;
Johannesburg, South Africa, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Its subsidiaries include Caterpillar
Life Insurance Company, Cat Financial and Caterpillar Product Services Corporation (CPSC), among
others.
Construction Industries
The Companys Construction Industries segment provides machinery for infrastructure and building
construction applications. The Construction Industries segment sells machines to heavy
construction, general construction, rental, mining, and quarry and aggregates markets. The
Construction Industries segments product portfolio includes various machines and related parts,
such as backhoe loaders, compact wheel loaders, small track-type tractors, small wheel loaders,
track-type loaders, medium track-type tractors, skid steer loaders, mini excavators, select work
tools, multi-terrain loaders, small, medium and large track excavators, motor graders, medium wheel
loaders, wheel excavators, telehandlers, compact track loaders, pipe layers and mid-tier soil
compactors.
The Company competes with Komatsu Ltd., Volvo Group, CNH Industrial N.V., Deere & Company,
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd., J.C. Bamford Excavators Ltd., Doosan Infracore Co. Ltd.,
Hyundai Heavy Industries, Guangxi LiuGong Machinery Co. Ltd., Longking Holdings Ltd., Sany
Heavy Industry Co. Ltd., Xiamen XGMA Machinery Co. Ltd., XCMG Group, The Shandong Heavy
Industry Group Co., Ltd. and Strong Construction Machinery Co. Ltd.
Resource Industries
The Companys Resource Industries segment offers machinery for mine and quarry applications.

The Resource Industries segments product portfolio includes machines and related parts, such as
electric rope shovels, large track-type tractors, wheel tractor scrapers, draglines, large mining
trucks, wheel dozers, hydraulic shovels, longwall miners, machinery components, drills, large wheel
loaders, electronics and control systems, highwall miners, off-highway trucks, select work tools,
hard rock vehicles and articulated trucks.
The Company competes with Komatsu Ltd., Joy Global Inc., Hitachi Construction Machinery Co.,
Ltd., Volvo Group, Atlas Copco, Sandvik Mining, Guangxi LiuGong Machinery Co., Ltd., XCMG Group
and Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery Group Co., Ltd.
Energy & Transportation
The Companys Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engines, turbines, dieselelectric locomotives, integrated systems and solutions, and related parts. It offers products for a
range of industries, such as oil and gas, power generation, industrial and marine applications, as
well as rail-related businesses. The Energy & Transportation segments product portfolio includes
reciprocating engine powered generator sets; reciprocating engines supplied to the industrial
industry, as well as Caterpillar machinery; integrated systems used in the electric power generation
industry; turbines, centrifugal gas compressors and related services; reciprocating engines and
integrated systems and solutions for the marine and oil and gas industries; diesel-electric
locomotives and components, and other rail-related products and services.
The Company competes with Cummins Inc., Rolls-Royce Power System AG, GE Oil & Gas, GE Power
& Water, Deutz AG, Wartsila Corp, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Siemens Power & Gas, Rolls-Royce
Marine, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Volvo Group, Weichai Power Co., Ltd., Kirloskar Oil
Engines Limited, Generac Power Systems, Inc., Kohler Co., Aggreko PLC, GE Transportation,
Vossloh AG, Siemens AG and Alstom Transport, and Voestalpine AG.

Financial Products Segment

The Companys Financial Products segment conducts its business through Cat Financial, a wholly
owned finance subsidiary of Caterpillar. Cat Financials primary business is to provide retail and
wholesale financing alternatives for Caterpillar products. Its retail financing consists of financing of
Caterpillar equipment, machinery and engines. Cat Financial also provides financing for vehicles,
power generation facilities and marine vessels. In addition to retail financing, Cat Financial provides
wholesale financing to Caterpillar dealers and purchases short-term trade receivables from
Caterpillar and its subsidiaries. Cat Financial has operations in North America and also has offices
and subsidiaries in Asia/Pacific, Europe and Latin America.
The Company competes with Wells Fargo Equipment Finance Inc., General Electric Capital
Corporation, Volvo Group, Komatsu Ltd. and John Deere Financial Services, Inc.