Union Pacific (UNP) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Union Pacific's Return on Sales history spans 17 years, with the latest figure at 0.3% for Q4 2025.

For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 2.0% year-over-year to 0.3%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.29%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.29%, 1.0% up from the prior year.
Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.3% at Union Pacific, up from 0.29% in the prior quarter.
Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.39% in Q3 2021 and bottomed at 0.24% in Q1 2023.
The 5-year median for Return on Sales is 0.29% (2024), against an average of 0.3%.
The largest annual shift saw Return on Sales grew 11bps in 2021 before it fell -13bps in 2023.
A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.32% in 2021, then rose by 8bps to 0.35% in 2022, then fell by -29bps to 0.25% in 2023, then grew by 15bps to 0.29% in 2024, then grew by 6bps to 0.3% in 2025.
Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for UNP's Return on Sales are 0.3% (Q4 2025), 0.29% (Q3 2025), and 0.3% (Q2 2025).

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