Knife River Corporation

KNF Basic Materials Building Materials

Knife River Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.1 billion, up 8.52% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+5.97%
EPS
−3.99%
Free cash flow
−27.5%
Total debt
+30.8%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

57.63 4.61 −7.41%
Market cap
$3.3B
P/E
24.3×
Fwd P/E
22.6×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
3/9
Altman Z
2.90
Beneish M
−2.53
Dividend safety
n/a

Knife River Corporation (KNF) Return on invested capital

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Knife River Corporation's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 5.49%, down 1.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (6.66%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.00% (fiscal 2020) to 11.0% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 33% of that period. That is below the Building Materials industry median of 6.51% and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.96%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 6.66% (3.89)
FY2024 10.6% (0.44)
FY2023 11.0% 2.70
FY2022 8.29% 0.41
FY2021 7.88% 7.88
FY2020 0.00% —

Against its own ten years

Low 0.00% High 11.0%
Ten-year median 8.09%
Current reading's percentile 33

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
USLM United States Lime & Minerals, Inc. compare 33.3%
CPAC Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A. compare 13.2%
TGLS Tecnoglass Holdings Inc. compare 12.9%
EXP Eagle Materials Inc compare 10.8%
TTAM Titan America SA compare 10.2%
CX Cemex S.A.B. de C.V. compare 5.73%
KNF Knife River Corporation 5.49%
LOMA Loma Negra Compania Industrial Argentina S.A. Sponsored ADR compare 4.21%
RMIX Suncrete, Inc. compare 0.00%
Building Materials industry median 6.51%
Basic Materials sector median 0.96%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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