WERNWerner Enterprises, Inc.
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 margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is WERN?
Werner Enterprises, Inc. earns −1.1% 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% · 10 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −0.86%
Operating margin · Trucking median 1.3% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −1.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 9.6% |
| FY2021 | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9.8% |
| FY2023 | 5.4% |
| FY2024 | 2.2% |
| FY2025 | 0.39% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −0.86%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −1.4%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.25B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $53M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$46M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −1.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.