Union Pacific Corp. UNP
What this company does
Written from the business description in UNION PACIFIC CORP's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 6 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +4.6% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +5.9%, earnings per share at +8.7%.
The share count fell from 0.67B to 0.59B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.
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.
Each USD of equity produced 40 cents of profit this year.
EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 24.5 | 24.2 | 24.1 | 24.9 | 21.8 | 19.5 | 21.7 | 22.8 | 21.2 | 19.9 | 21.8 | 24.0 | 22.0 | 20.9 | 19.6 | 17.0 | 14.1 | 18.0 | 16.3 |
| Operating income $B | 9.8 | 9.7 | 9.1 | 9.9 | 9.3 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 7.4 | 6.7 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.4 |
| EBITDA $B | 12.3 | 12.1 | 11.4 | 12.2 | 11.5 | 10.0 | 10.8 | 10.7 | 10.2 | 9.3 | 10.1 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.5 | 7.3 | 6.5 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 4.7 |
| Income tax $B | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.8 | −3.1 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Net income $B | 7.1 | 6.7 | 6.4 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 5.3 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 10.7 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Free cash flow $B | 5.5 | 5.9 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.8 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 11.98 | 11.09 | 10.45 | 11.21 | 9.95 | 7.88 | 8.38 | 7.91 | 13.36 | 5.07 | 5.49 | 5.75 | 4.71 | 4.14 | 6.72 | 5.53 | 3.74 | 4.53 | 3.46 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 5.44 | 5.28 | 5.20 | 5.08 | 4.29 | 3.88 | 3.70 | 3.06 | 2.48 | 2.25 | 2.20 | 1.91 | 1.48 | 1.25 | 1.93 | 1.31 | 1.08 | 0.98 | 0.74 |
| Payout % | 45 | 48 | 50 | 45 | 43 | 49 | 44 | 39 | 19 | 44 | 49 | 32 | 30 | 29 | 25 | 22 | 29 | 21 | 20 |
| ROE % | 40.4 | 42.6 | 47.3 | 53.2 | 41.9 | 30.5 | 30.7 | 26.4 | 47.8 | 20.8 | 22.8 | 24.4 | 21.4 | 20.5 | 18.1 | 16.1 | 11.7 | 15.1 | · |
| Shares out B | 0.59 | 0.60 | 0.61 | 0.61 | 0.64 | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 0.82 | 0.85 | 0.88 | 0.91 | 0.47 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.50 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years. 2 checks could not be computed.