Company data sheet · Roadrunner Transportation Systems
Roadrunner Transportation Systems: four lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Arrangement of Transportation of Freight & Cargo
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (2008–2020), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to four straight losses. Roadrunner Transportation Systems earned $0.1 billion in 2013–2015. Then it lost money every year from 2016 to 2019: $1 billion in all.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in 2016, a year the US economy grew 1.8%. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
- Left behind by its peers. From 2016 to 2019, its revenue shrank 9% in US dollars; the median among 289 large transportation and utility companies grew 15%. It outgrew only 8% of them.
- Still smaller than it was. Revenue reached $1.8 billion in 2019, 17% below its 2018 peak of $2.2 billion.
- Leaders came and went. Roadrunner Transportation Systems filed 28 leadership changes since 2016, more than 81% of large transportation and utility companies (the median is 12).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $2 billion | −$0.4 billion | |
| 2017 | $2.1 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2018 | $2.2 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2019 | $1.8 billion | −$0.3 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 62 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (0 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 404 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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