Canadian National Railway Co (CNI) Return on Assets [ROA] (2009 - 2026)
Canadian National Railway's Return on Assets [ROA] was 18.37% in the quarter ended Jun 30, 2026, down 0.02 percentage points from 18.39% a year earlier but up 0.06 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Canadian National Railway Co (CNI) Return on Assets [ROA] (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the year ended Dec 31, 2025, Return on Assets [ROA] at Canadian National Railway came in at 13.37%, up 0.24 percentage points from the prior year.
- Return on Assets [ROA] shows a five-year change of +1.02 percentage points (years ended Dec 2020 to Dec 2025).
- In earlier years, Return on Assets [ROA] was 13.13% in the year ended Dec 31, 2024 (-0.84 pp), 13.97% in the year ended Dec 31, 2023 (-2.68 pp) and 16.65% in the year ended Dec 31, 2022.
- Quarterly Return on Assets [ROA] has moved between 17.63% (the quarter ended Sep 30, 2024) and 23.78% (the quarter ended Mar 31, 2023) over five years.
- Compared with a year earlier, Return on Assets [ROA] was higher in four of the last eight quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -0.31 percentage points.
- The best year-over-year quarter for Return on Assets [ROA] over five years was the quarter ended Sep 30, 2021 (a gain of 8.05 percentage points); the worst was the quarter ended Mar 31, 2024 (a drop of 5.58 percentage points).
- Per Business Quant data, CNI's Return on Assets [ROA] in the three quarters before the quarter ended Jun 30, 2026 was 18.30% (quarter ended Mar 31, 2026), 18.62% (quarter ended Dec 31, 2025) and 18.31% (quarter ended Sep 30, 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 18.37% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 18.30% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 18.62% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 18.31% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 18.39% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 18.18% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 17.96% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 17.63% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 17.83% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 18.20% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 18.96% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 21.06% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 22.93% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 23.78% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 21.96% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 20.57% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 21.25% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 20.05% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 20.37% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 19.92% |
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Canadian National Railway Co Return on Assets [ROA] API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=return-on-assets-%5Broa%5D&ticker=CNI&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-assets-[roa]", "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=return-on-assets-%5Broa%5D&ticker=CNI&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();