ArcBest Financial Ratios
NASDAQ: ARCBIndustrialsTrucking Freight/Courier ServicesUSD
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ArcBest ratio analysis
ArcBest earned a net margin of 1.5% in FY 2025, down from 4.2% a year earlier. Return on equity reached 4.6%, meaning ArcBest generated 0.05 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity. Debt-to-equity stood at 0.17 versus 0.14 the year before, and the current ratio was 0.95.
At the end of FY 2025, ARCB traded at 29.5 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 6.0 to 38.9, with a median of 15.5. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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ArcBest financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 29.45 | 12.90 | 15.16 | 5.99 | 15.02 | 15.86 | 18.26 | 14.25 | 15.89 | 38.94 |
| Price / sales | 0.44 | 0.53 | 0.65 | 0.34 | 0.81 | 0.37 | 0.24 | 0.30 | 0.32 | 0.26 |
| Price / book | 1.36 | 1.69 | 2.32 | 1.50 | 3.29 | 1.31 | 0.92 | 1.28 | 1.41 | 1.19 |
| Operating margin | 2.3% | 5.8% | 3.9% | 7.8% | 7.4% | 3.3% | 2.1% | 3.5% | 2.2% | 1.3% |
| Net margin | 1.5% | 4.2% | 4.4% | 5.9% | 5.7% | 2.4% | 1.3% | 2.2% | 2.1% | 0.7% |
| Free cash flow margin | 2.8% | 1.5% | 2.3% | 6.4% | 7.0% | 5.5% | 2.7% | 6.8% | 3.0% | 1.6% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 4.6% | 13.2% | 15.7% | 25.9% | 23.0% | 8.6% | 5.2% | 9.4% | 9.2% | 3.1% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 2.5% | 7.2% | 7.9% | 12.0% | 10.1% | 4.0% | 2.4% | 4.4% | 4.4% | 1.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.18 | 0.23 | 0.24 | 0.34 | 0.42 | 0.41 | 0.41 | 0.41 |
| Current ratio | 0.95 | 1.01 | 1.26 | 1.29 | 1.10 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.44 | 1.30 | 1.24 |
| Revenue growth | -4.0% | -5.6% | -12.0% | 33.5% | 28.1% | -1.6% | -3.4% | 9.5% | 4.7% | 1.2% |
| EPS growth | -64.1% | -7.9% | -32.2% | 46.5% | 196.7% | 78.1% | -39.8% | 11.6% | 216.9% | -57.5% |