On this page we presented the CAT earnings surprises information for Caterpillar, comparing the expected earnings versus the actual earnings quarter by quarter, with the resulting positive or negative percentage surprise. Any self directed investor doing their due diligence on CAT (or any other given stock) can benefit from researching all of the Caterpillar past earnings going backwards in time, including how often the company beat or missed the market's expectations. To help you with this Caterpillar earnings surprise research, on this page we presented each quarter's resulting numbers for easy comparison. Studying these numbers can help an investor by providing important context with which to think about CAT's next earnings report. In your continued research on Caterpillar we hope you will be sure to check out the further links included for revenue and earnings history as well as next earnings dates for CAT. Thanks for visiting, and the next time you need to research CAT earnings surprises or those of another stock, we hope you'll think of our site as your go-to earnings surprises research resource of choice.