Stock · UNP · Industrials
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1978 · Revenue 12 mo. $26.4B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States.
Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, operates in the railroad business in the United States. It offers transportation services for grain and grain products, fertilizers, food and refrigerated products, and coal and renewables to grain processors, animal feeders, and ethanol and renewable biofuel producers; and construction products, industrial chemicals, plastics, forest products, specialized products, metals and ores, petroleum, liquid petroleum gases, soda ash, and sand, as well as finished automobiles, automotive parts, and merchandise in intermodal containers. The company was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Summary
58.4 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €4.9B (2025), it supports €54.8B. The remaining €98.3B of the market value assume it grows 14.3% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
14.3%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 16.4×, above its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 14.3× to 16.2×, median 15.0×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
No indication in the stored figures.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q2 → Q3 2026
7 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 38.65% | 13.10% | Rank 91 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 16.50% | 19.33% | Rank 40 |
| EBIT margin | 40.14% | 11.28% | Rank 97 |
| FCF margin | 22.44% | 8.50% | Rank 94 |
| Gross margin | 59.38% | 28.98% | Rank 94 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 1.07% | 5.15% | Rank 28 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 2.36% | 8.01% | Rank 37 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 8.83% | 12.89% | Rank 33 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 15.47% | 4.02% | Rank 89 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 4.14% | 4.42% | Rank 46 |
| FCF yield | 3.22% | 3.98% | Rank 39 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 8.20 | 2.08 | Rank 6 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 20.43 | 19.47 | Rank 47 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 23.50% | −0.01% | Rank 83 |
| Share price, 6 months | 10.12% | −1.43% | Rank 73 |
| Share price, 3 months | 4.12% | 0.53% | Rank 62 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −6.59% | −16.36% | Rank 82 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 2.34% | 1.39% | Rank 41 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.48% | −0.44% | Rank 80 |
| Dividend streak in years | 27 | 5 | Rank 95 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 4.66% | 0.27% | Rank 81 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 26.50% | 39.65% | Rank 21 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 2.34 | 1.38 | Rank 26 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 1.72 | 0.61 | Rank 13 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 22.66% | 32.95% | Rank 88 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF, $B | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 19.9 | 36.5% | 4.0 | 835M | 13.7 |
| 2017 | 21.2 | 38.0% | 4.0 | 802M | 15.7 |
| 2018 | 22.8 | 37.3% | 5.2 | 754M | 21.1 |
| 2019 | 21.7 | 39.4% | 5.2 | 706M | 26.2 |
| 2020 | 19.5 | 40.1% | 5.6 | 679M | 26.5 |
| 2021 | 21.8 | 42.8% | 6.1 | 655M | 30.5 |
| 2022 | 24.9 | 39.9% | 5.7 | 624M | 34.0 |
| 2023 | 24.1 | 37.7% | 4.8 | 610M | 33.1 |
| 2024 | 24.3 | 40.1% | 5.9 | 609M | 31.4 |
| 2025 | 24.5 | 40.1% | 5.5 | 594M | 30.5 |
3 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Union Pacific Corporation mainly meets criteria in the Momentum category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Union Pacific Corporation is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
3 of 7 rules met
4 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Union Pacific Corporation.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 24.1 | 22.5 |
| P/B ratio | 9.3 | 2.9 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 38.7% | 13.1% |
| Equity ratio | 26.5% | 39.7% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 1.72 | 0.61 |
| Dividend yield | 1.9% | 2.0% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| UNP | Union Pacific Corporationthis page | |
| CSX | CSX Corporation | Low3.6 |
| NSC | Norfolk Southern Corporation | Low2.7 |
| WAB | Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp | Medium5.5 |
| CP.TO | Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd | locked |
| CNR.TO | Canadian National Railway Co | locked |
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