CSXCSX Corporation
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.4×), but margins compressing.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 23% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
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 CSX?
CSX Corporation earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.4 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 34%
Operating margin · Railroads median 33% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.40×
Cash conversion · 1.36× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −0.54%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 41% |
| FY2021 | 45% |
| FY2022 | 40% |
| FY2023 | 38% |
| FY2024 | 36% |
| FY2025 | 32% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 34%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 22%
- Free cash flow margin
- 19%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $14.5B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.80B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $3.22B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Industrials
Ranks #147 of 400 by RyuScore