ArcBest Corporation

ARCB Industrials Trucking

ArcBest Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $4.0 billion, down 4.04% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+15.5%
EPS
+33.8%
Free cash flow
+77.4%
Total debt
−9.14%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

133.65 5.64 −4.05%
Market cap
$3.0B
P/E
104×
Fwd P/E
35.1×
Dividend yield
0.36%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
3.47
Beneish M
−2.04
Dividend safety
82/100

ArcBest Corporation (ARCB) Operating margin

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ArcBest Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 1.10%, down 1.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.25%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.26% (fiscal 2016) to 7.85% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Trucking industry median of 0.03% and below the Industrials sector median of 5.21%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 2.25% (3.60)
FY2024 5.85% 1.95
FY2023 3.90% (3.95)
FY2022 7.85% 0.50
FY2021 7.35% 4.01
FY2020 3.34% 1.21
FY2019 2.13% (1.40)
FY2018 3.53% 1.36
FY2017 2.17% 0.91
FY2016 1.26% (1.57)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 6.06% 7.80
Jun 2026 −1.74% (2.08)
Mar 2026 0.34% 1.19
Dec 2025 −0.85% (6.06)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.26% High 7.85%
Ten-year median 3.34%
Current reading's percentile 5

Operating margin against peers

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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