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NASDAQ · TRUCKING (NO LOCAL) · LARGE CAP

Arcbest Corp. ARCB

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$4.0B
▼ 4.0% YoY
$60.1M
▼ 65.5% YoY
$114.2M
▲ 82.0% YoY
In brief

What this company does

ArcBest Corporation provides ground, air and ocean transportation solutions, including less-than-truckload service through ABF Freight, truckload service through MoLo Solutions, LLC, managed transportation solutions, and ground expedited freight through Panther Premium Logistics. As of December 2025, the company had 14,000 employees, of which approximately 58% were members of labor unions. Its operations are conducted through two reportable operating segments: Asset-Based, which consists of ABF Freight System, Inc. and certain other subsidiaries, and Asset-Light, which includes MoLo, Panther, and certain other subsidiaries. ABF Freight, the Asset-Based segment's motor carrier, has operated continuously since 1923 and offers interstate and intrastate less-than-truckload service to approximately 51,000 communities in all 50 states, Canada and Puerto Rico through 239 service centers. In 2025, Asset-Based revenues accounted for approximately 66% of total revenues, before other revenues and intercompany eliminations. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 1966 and started over a century earlier as a local Arkansas freight hauler.

Written from the business description in ARCBEST CORP /TX/'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 4.0B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 4.0 · Net income 0.1
2B4B2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−7.3%
+6.4%
+4.2%
+6.1%
−41.4%
−3.3%
+3.0%
−39.3%
−0.5%
+4.6%
+0.0%
+0.0%
+10.3%
+4.5%
+42.5%
+16.0%
+24.8%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +6.4% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
1 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 2.3% · Net 1.5%
2%4%6%-5%-10%2008201120142017202020232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 4.6%
10%20%-10%-20%2008201120142017202020232025

Each USD of equity produced 5 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 86.5M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 114.2
200M-20M2008201120142017202020232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 11.0 · Net buybacks 75.6
40M80MDividendsNet buybacks2008201120142017202020232025

USD 11.0M in dividends and USD 75.6M in buybacks — 144% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 2.5B
EquityUSD 1.3B
CashUSD 102.0M
Gross debtUSD 223.9M
Net debtUSD 121.8M
Current ratio0.95×

Net debt stands at 9% of equity.

The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B4.04.24.45.03.82.93.03.12.82.72.72.62.32.11.91.71.51.8
Operating income $B0.10.20.20.40.30.10.10.10.10.00.10.10.0−0.00.0−0.1−0.20.0
EBITDA $B0.30.40.30.50.40.20.20.20.20.10.20.20.10.10.10.0−0.10.1
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.10.10.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.00.0
Net income $B0.10.20.20.30.20.10.00.10.10.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.0−0.10.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.10.30.30.20.10.20.10.00.10.10.10.00.00.0−0.00.0
EPS, diluted $2.627.307.9311.697.982.691.512.512.250.711.671.690.59−0.310.23−1.30−5.121.14
Dividend / sh $····0.320.320.320.320.320.320.260.150.120.120.120.120.600.60
Payout %186644112012144515920−4252−10−1253
ROE %4.613.616.328.724.38.95.49.89.63.17.88.53.2−1.71.3−6.7−22.74.7

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 70 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 6 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityTrucking (No Local)
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inTexas
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2008

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