Canadian National Railway Co (CNI) Return on Equity [ROE] (2009 - 2026)
Canadian National Railway (CNI) posted Return on Equity [ROE] of 50.66% for the quarter ended Jun 30, 2026, up 2.01 percentage points from 48.65% a year earlier and up 0.44 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Canadian National Railway Co (CNI) Return on Equity [ROE] (2009 - 2026) Analysis & Trends
For the year ended Dec 31, 2025, Canadian National Railway's Return on Equity [ROE] came in at 36.27%, up 1.27 percentage points from the prior year.
- Annual Return on Equity [ROE] shows a five-year change of +7.24 percentage points (years ended Dec 2020 to Dec 2025).
- In prior years, Canadian National Railway's Return on Equity [ROE] was 35.00% in the year ended Dec 31, 2024 (+0.25 pp), 34.75% in the year ended Dec 31, 2023 (-2.64 pp) and 37.39% in the year ended Dec 31, 2022.
- The figure for the quarter ended Jun 30, 2026 stands as the highest quarterly Return on Equity [ROE] since the quarter ended Sep 30, 2023.
- On a year-over-year basis, Return on Equity [ROE] has increased in each of the last three quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -0.02 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
- The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Equity [ROE] in the past five years was the quarter ended Sep 30, 2021, with a gain of 16.45 percentage points; the weakest was the quarter ended Mar 31, 2024, with a drop of 8.82 percentage points.
- According to Business Quant data, Return on Equity [ROE] for the three prior quarters was 50.22% (quarter ended Mar 31, 2026), 50.50% (quarter ended Dec 31, 2025) and 48.95% (quarter ended Sep 30, 2025).
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| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | 50.66% |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 50.22% |
| Dec 31, 2025 | 50.50% |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 48.95% |
| Jun 30, 2025 | 48.65% |
| Mar 31, 2025 | 48.77% |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 49.47% |
| Sep 30, 2024 | 49.21% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 48.83% |
| Mar 31, 2024 | 48.36% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 49.55% |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 53.71% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 56.57% |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 57.19% |
| Dec 31, 2022 | 51.55% |
| Sep 30, 2022 | 47.24% |
| Jun 30, 2022 | 47.54% |
| Mar 31, 2022 | 43.51% |
| Dec 31, 2021 | 44.17% |
| Sep 30, 2021 | 44.60% |
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Canadian National Railway Co Return on Equity [ROE] API
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https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=return-on-equity-%5Broe%5D&ticker=CNI&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "return-on-equity-[roe]", "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-equity-%5Broe%5D&ticker=CNI&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();