UNPUnion Pacific Corporation
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and steady price behavior.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -39% · now 10% below its 52-week high.
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. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can UNP take a bad year?
Union Pacific Corporation carries $28.7B of net debt at 2.26× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.26×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.59× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 3.99
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 7.92×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $30.3B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.61B
- Net debt
- $28.7B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $12.7B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $10.2B
- Debt / equity
- 1.47×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.39×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −39%
- Below its 52-week high
- 10%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Industrials
Ranks #116 of 400 by RyuScore