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Union Pacific quarterly revenue rises 15.3% to $7.20 billion

Union Pacific's revenue growth is speeding up. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 22, 2026.

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Union Pacific's revenue growth is speeding up: revenue rose 15.3% to $7.20 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $6.24 billion a year earlier, after 11.5% year over year growth the quarter before.

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What We Know

Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $7.20 billion, versus $6.24 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, up 15.3%. That is its highest quarterly revenue of the last eight quarters.

Bar chart: Union Pacific: revenue, last eight quarters. US$ billions by fiscal quarter end, as of Oct 22, 2026. Dec 2024 6.12; Mar 2025 6.03; Jun 2025 6.15; Sep 2025 6.24; Dec 2025 6.09; Mar 2026 6.22; Jun 2026 6.86; Sep 2026 7.2. Latest quarter $7.20B, Up 15.3% vs a year earlier.
Source: SEC EDGAR (earnings release and XBRL financial data)

Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $6.12 billion; Mar 2025: $6.03 billion; Jun 2025: $6.15 billion; Sep 2025: $6.24 billion; Dec 2025: $6.09 billion; Mar 2026: $6.22 billion; Jun 2026: $6.86 billion; Sep 2026: $7.20 billion.

Octans View

Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 down 0.6%; Mar 2026 up 3.2%; Jun 2026 up 11.5%; Sep 2026 up 15.3%. On those figures, Union Pacific's revenue growth is speeding up. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.

Bear Case · Room for Disagreement

This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.

Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.

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$UNP adjusted close, last 6 months $UNP adjusted close, last 6 months: series rising from 266 to 288 (+8.1%) from 2026-04-27 to 2026-10-21. Scale 240 to 320. 240260280300320 2026-04-272026-10-21 $UNP ADJUSTED CLOSE, LAST 6 MONTHS +8.1% 287.9
Source: Tiingo · As of 2026-10-21Indicative, not investment advice.

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  1. [1]SEC EDGAR — Union Pacific earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 22, 2026
  2. [2]SEC EDGAR — Union Pacific XBRL financial data (company facts)

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