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C.H. Robinson earns 21% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
21%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 12 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 4.9%
Operating margin · Integrated Freight & Logistics median 6.1% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.06×
Cash conversion · 1.29× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.1%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.2% |
| FY2021 | 4.7% |
| FY2022 | 5.1% |
| FY2023 | 2.9% |
| FY2024 | 3.8% |
| FY2025 | 4.9% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 4.9%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 3.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $17.0B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $669M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $633M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 21%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Integrated Freight & Logistics
Ranks #6 of 10 by Smart Score