Canadian National Railway (CNI) Free Cash Flow (2009 - 2025)
Canadian National Railway's Free Cash Flow came in at $2.48 billion for Q4 2025, up 17.8% from $2.1 billion a year earlier.
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Canadian National Railway (CNI) Free Cash Flow (2009 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
For FY2025, Canadian National Railway's Free Cash Flow was $2.43 billion, up 5.5% from FY2024.
- Free Cash Flow carries a five-year compound annual growth rate of -0.3% (FY2020 to FY2025).
- Going back by year, Free Cash Flow was $2.3 billion in FY2024 (-17.8%), $2.8 billion in FY2023 (-7.1%), $3.01 billion in FY2022 (-7.5%) and $3.26 billion in FY2021 (+32.1%).
- The Q4 2025 figure represents the highest quarterly Free Cash Flow since Q3 2022.
- The fastest year-over-year change in Free Cash Flow over five years came in Q4 2022 (growth of 224.3%), and the weakest in Q4 2021 (a decline of 72.8%).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Dec 31, 2025 | 2.48 Bn |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 2.10 Bn |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 2.46 Bn |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 2.35 Bn |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 2.86 Bn |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 2.42 Bn |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 570.00 Mn |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 725.11 Mn |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 3.29 Bn |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 2.20 Bn |
| Mar 31, 2021 | 1.36 Bn |
| Dec 31, 2020 | 2.66 Bn |
| Sep 30, 2020 | 1.61 Bn |
| Jun 30, 2020 | 1.78 Bn |
| Mar 31, 2020 | 1.78 Bn |
| Dec 31, 2019 | 1.92 Bn |
| Sep 30, 2019 | 2.24 Bn |
| Jun 30, 2019 | 2.47 Bn |
| Mar 31, 2019 | 1.70 Bn |
| Dec 31, 2018 | 2.41 Bn |
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Canadian National Railway Free Cash Flow API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=free-cash-flow&ticker=CNI&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "free-cash-flow", "ticker": "CNI", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=free-cash-flow&ticker=CNI&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();