Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In order to operate, your business must sell goods or services, buy equipment, pay its bills and receive payment from customers. Operating efficiency ratios provide numerical feedback about how ...

For 25 years or longer, operating ratio (the ratio of operating expenses to operating revenue) has been a common measure of profitability and efficiency in the truckload transportation industry.

Business accountants measure financial performance and success in myriad ways, including the percentage or ratio known as "operating margin." Operating margin helps accountants and business managers ...

It is no secret that the transportation sector had a very tough time last year, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak. Railroads, being one of the most important corners of this widely-diversified sector, ...

CSX Corporation reported its fourth quarter and full year 2014 results on January 13 after market close. The railroad's fourth quarter revenue grew 5% driven by broad-based volume growth but unaided ...

Union Pacific's operating ratio rose in the fourth quarter. The higher ratio was a disappointment as the rail giant aims to boost efficiency. "We are not satisfied with this operating performance," ...

According to cotton farmers on the High Plains, the weather makes no judgments, raining or hailing with equal fury on the just and the unjust. Based on responses to requests for information for this ...