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Company details
Market cap
$140B
P/E ratio
20×
Div yield
2.3%
EPS (2025)
$11.98
Operating ratio
59.8%
Rev. growth
+1%
Revenue (2025)
$24.5B
Net income (2025)
$7.1B
In plain English
Union Pacific is the largest freight railroad in North America — ~32,000 route-miles of track blanketing the western two-thirds of the United States, from the Pacific ports through the farm belt and chemical hubs to Chicago and the Gulf, plus the main rail gateways into Mexico. It hauls the grain, coal, chemicals, cars, lumber and shipping containers that physically move the western economy, turning a near-irreplaceable network into freight tonnage at the lowest possible cost. In 2025 it agreed to merge with eastern railroad Norfolk Southern to form the first single-line transcontinental US railroad — a deal still awaiting Surface Transportation Board approval.
In simple terms
What Union Pacific really sells
Union Pacific is the largest freight railroad in North America — ~32,000 route-miles of track blanketing the western two-thirds of the United States, from the Pacific ports through the farm belt and chemical hubs to Chicago and the Gulf, plus the main rail gateways into Mexico. It hauls the grain, coal, chemicals, cars, lumber and shipping containers that physically move the western economy, turning a near-irreplaceable network into freight tonnage at the lowest possible cost. In 2025 it agreed to merge with eastern railroad Norfolk Southern to form the first single-line transcontinental US railroad — a deal still awaiting Surface Transportation Board approval.
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