ARCBArcBest Corporation
Is the business good?
Margins compressing. That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is ARCB?
ArcBest Corporation earns 1.8% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 7.2 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 0.69%
Operating margin · Trucking median 1.3% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −2.9%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 3.3% |
| FY2021 | 7.3% |
| FY2022 | 7.8% |
| FY2023 | 3.9% |
| FY2024 | 5.9% |
| FY2025 | 2.3% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 0.69%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 0.39%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.5%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.20B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $187M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $16M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 1.8%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.