Caterpillar : 2Q 2023 Caterpillar Inc. Earnings Conference Call

Second Quarter 2023 Financial Review

August 1, 2023

2Q 2023 EARNINGS RELEASE

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this financial review relate to future events and expectations and are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "believe," "estimate," "will be," "will," "would," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "forecast," "target," "guide," "project," "intend," "could," "should" or other similar words or expressions often identify forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding our outlook, projections, forecasts or trend descriptions. These statements do not guarantee future performance and speak only as of the date they are made, and we do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements.

Caterpillar's actual results may differ materially from those described or implied in our forward-looking statements based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to: (i) global and regional economic conditions and economic conditions in the industries we serve; (ii) commodity price changes, material price increases, fluctuations in demand for our products or significant shortages of material; (iii) government monetary or fiscal policies; (iv) political and economic risks, commercial instability and events beyond our control in the countries in which we operate; (v) international trade policies and their impact on demand for our products and our competitive position, including the imposition of new tariffs or changes in existing tariff rates; (vi) our ability to develop, produce and market quality products that meet our customers' needs; (vii) the impact of the highly competitive environment in which we operate on our sales and pricing; (viii) information technology security threats and computer crime; (ix) inventory management decisions and sourcing practices of our dealers and our OEM customers; (x) a failure to realize, or a delay in realizing, all of the anticipated benefits of our acquisitions, joint ventures or divestitures; (xi) union disputes or other employee relations issues; (xii) adverse effects of unexpected events; (xiii) disruptions or volatility in global financial markets limiting our sources of liquidity or the liquidity of our customers, dealers and suppliers; (xiv) failure to maintain our credit ratings and potential resulting increases to our cost of borrowing and adverse effects on our cost of funds, liquidity, competitive position and access to capital markets; (xv) our Financial Products segment's risks associated with the financial services industry; (xvi) changes in interest rates or market liquidity conditions; (xvii) an increase in delinquencies, repossessions or net losses of Cat Financial's customers; (xviii) currency fluctuations; (xix) our or Cat Financial's compliance with financial and other restrictive covenants in debt agreements; (xx) increased pension plan funding obligations; (xxi) alleged or actual violations of trade or anti-corruption laws and regulations; (xxii) additional tax expense or exposure, including the impact of U.S. tax reform; (xxiii) significant legal proceedings, claims, lawsuits or government investigations; (xxiv) new regulations or changes in financial services regulations; (xxv) compliance with environmental laws and regulations; (xxvi) catastrophic events, including global pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic; and (xxvii) other factors described in more detail in Caterpillar's Forms 10-Q,10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A reconciliation of non-GAAP financial information can be found in our press release describing second-quarter 2023 financial results which is available on our website at www.caterpillar.com/earnings.

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Strong Performance

THANK YOU	HEALTHY DEMAND
TO OUR	ACROSS MOST
GLOBAL TEAM
END MARKETS

EXECUTING OUR

STRATEGY FOR

LONG-TERM

PROFITABLE

GROWTH

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Key Takeaways

Second Quarter 2023 vs. Second Quarter 2022

2Q 2023 EARNINGS RELEASE

$17.3B	$3.7B	$3.7B	$5.67	$5.55
22%	88%	87%	81%	75%
Sales &	Operating	Adjusted	Profit Per	Adjusted
Revenues	Profit	Operating	Share	Profit Per
		Profit1		Share2

• Adjusted operating profit is a non-GAAP measure, and a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measure is included in the appendix.

• Second-quarter2023 adjusted profit per share excluded a discrete tax benefit to adjust deferred tax balances of $0.17 per share and restructuring costs of $0.05 per share. Second-quarter 2022 adjusted profit per share excluded restructuring costs of $0.05 per share.

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ME&T Free Cash Flow1 and Capital Deployment	2Q 2023 EARNINGS RELEASE

$2.6B

$2.0B

8%

2Q 2023 ME&T	Returned to	Increased
Free Cash Flow1	Shareholders in 2Q 2023	Dividend
Expect to return substantially	Through share repurchases	Increased quarterly dividend per
all ME&T Free Cash Flow1	and dividends	share by 51% since May 2019
to shareholders over time

1 ME&T free cash flow represents ME&T operating cash flow less capital expenditures, excluding discretionary pension contributions. A reconciliation of ME&T net cash provided by operating activities to ME&T free cash flow is included in the appendix.

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