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Union Pacific Corporation (UNP)

NYSE / Industrials / Railroads

Share price

288.71 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

171.50B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 6, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

15.3% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

24.06x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

3.2% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 19.94B USDFY2016 Net income: 4.23B USDFY2017 Revenue: 21.24B USDFY2017 Net income: 10.71B USDFY2018 Revenue: 22.83B USDFY2018 Net income: 5.97B USDFY2019 Revenue: 21.71B USDFY2019 Net income: 5.92B USDFY2020 Revenue: 19.53B USDFY2020 Net income: 5.35B USDFY2021 Revenue: 21.80B USDFY2021 Net income: 6.52B USDFY2022 Revenue: 24.88B USDFY2022 Net income: 7.00B USDFY2023 Revenue: 24.12B USDFY2023 Net income: 6.38B USDFY2024 Revenue: 24.25B USDFY2024 Net income: 6.75B USDFY2025 Revenue: 24.51B USDFY2025 Net income: 7.14B USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 24.06x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Industrials sector (412 companies), 24.06x sits at the 47th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.04x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 15.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Industrials sector (316 companies), 15.3% sits at the 75th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.4% to 15.3%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 7.52x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Union Pacific Corporation's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Industrials sector, year by year. (FY2019 to FY2025, 7 fiscal years of Union Pacific Corporation with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Union Pacific Corporation's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Union Pacific Corporation)
What could explain it
What in Union Pacific Corporation's filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines Union Pacific Corporation filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Union Pacific Corporation, and where in its filings. (4 questions for Union Pacific Corporation)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Union Pacific Corporation's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Union Pacific Corporation)

These are UNP’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, accession 0000100885-26-000037.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Union Pacific Corporation: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax15.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Return on equity38.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Return on capital employed, pre-tax15.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Return on assets10.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Operating margin40.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Net margin29.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
UNP 29.1%
CNI 26.9%CP 27.5%CSX 20.5%NSC 23.6%WAB 10.5%
10.5%29.1%
Net margin: UNP against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Union Pacific Corporation: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity1.78 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Current ratio0.91 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Quick ratio0.91 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Interest coverage7.52x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Altman Z-score4.22 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Net debt31.66B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Total assets 69.70BTotal liabilities 51.23BShareholders' equity 18.47BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Union Pacific Corporation owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037).

Union Pacific Corporation: balance sheet position
Total assets69.70B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Total liabilities51.23B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Shareholders' equity18.47B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Cash1.27B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Total debt32.93B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026
Net debt31.66B
Current ratio0.91
Debt to equity1.78

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Union Pacific Corporation: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings24.06x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
P/E on trailing twelve months23.36x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book9.32x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Price to sales7.02x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Enterprise value to EBIT20.69x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Enterprise value to EBITDA16.55x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Price to earnings over growth2.76 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Diluted earnings per share11.98 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Graham number91.47 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value UNP on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Union Pacific Corporation today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Union Pacific Corporation: valuation
Share price288.71 USD
Market capitalisation171.50B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA16.55x
Graham number91.47 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY202511.98 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Jul 20, 2017: low 8.60x, median 21.08x, high 29.69x, latest 23.36x. 2,323 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Union Pacific Corporation

  1. Canadian National Railway Company (CNI)Market cap 73.07B USD
  2. Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CP)Market cap 76.40B USD
  3. CSX Corporation (CSX)Market cap 90.20B USD
  4. Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC)Market cap 72.96B USD
  5. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB)Market cap 48.61B USD

Same industry (Railroads) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Union Pacific Corporation: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield3.2% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Free cash flow5.50B USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Free cash flow margin22.4% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Dividend yield1.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Payout ratio45.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
FY2016 Free cash flow: 4.02B USDFY2016 Net income: 4.23B USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 3.99B USDFY2017 Net income: 10.71B USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 5.25B USDFY2018 Net income: 5.97B USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 5.16B USDFY2019 Net income: 5.92B USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 5.61B USDFY2020 Net income: 5.35B USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 6.10B USDFY2021 Net income: 6.52B USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 5.74B USDFY2022 Net income: 7.00B USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 4.77B USDFY2023 Net income: 6.38B USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 5.89B USDFY2024 Net income: 6.75B USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 5.50B USDFY2025 Net income: 7.14B USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Union Pacific Corporation: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
24.06xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
9.32xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
20.69xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.2%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
15.3%FY2025Feb 6, 2026
1.9%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.78FY2025Feb 6, 2026
0.91FY2025Feb 6, 2026
7.02xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.76FY2025Oct 15, 2026
4.22FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.62FY2025Feb 6, 2026
7/9FY2025Feb 6, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Union Pacific Corporation filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Union Pacific Corporation: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY202524.51B9.85B7.14B11.985.50B40.2%38.6%10-K, Feb 6, 20260000100885-26-000037
FY202424.25B9.71B6.75B11.095.89B40.0%40.0%10-K, Feb 7, 20250000100885-25-000042
FY202324.12B9.08B6.38B10.454.77B37.6%43.1%10-K, Feb 9, 20240001437749-24-003599
FY202224.88B9.92B7.00B11.215.74B39.9%57.5%10-K, Feb 10, 20230001437749-23-002959
FY202121.80B9.34B6.52B9.956.10B42.8%46.1%10-K, Feb 4, 20220001437749-22-002494
FY202019.53B7.83B5.35B7.885.61B40.1%31.5%10-K, Feb 5, 20210000100885-21-000068
FY201921.71B8.55B5.92B8.385.16B39.4%32.6%10-K, Feb 7, 20200000100885-20-000065
FY201822.83B8.52B5.97B7.915.25B37.3%29.2%10-K, Feb 8, 20190000100885-19-000060
FY201721.24B8.11B10.71B13.363.99B38.2%43.1%10-K, Feb 9, 20180000100885-18-000048
FY201619.94B7.24B4.23B5.074.02B36.3%21.2%10-K, Feb 3, 20170000100885-17-000056
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.3%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.0%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 10.0%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 3.5%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Union Pacific Corporation: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.62 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 6, 2026, 0000100885-26-000037
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta0.51 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 28 not met, 0 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-covered dividend
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Figures we could not read(1)
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • One figure could not be read on this company: Gross Margin.

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