C. H. Robinson Worldwide Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, Net Income, and Diluted EPS Year-Over-Year on Both Quarter and Year-to-Date Windows

Bottom line

Across both reporting windows that the filing discloses, the Company stayed in a profit-to-profit posture, and every headline line that the ledger supports moved in the authorized direction relative to its prior-year comparative. For the three-month reporting period, revenue was higher than the prior-year quarter, operating income was higher than the prior-year quarter, net income attributable to parent was higher than the prior-year quarter, and earnings per diluted share were higher than the prior-year quarter; each line item remained profitable on both sides of the comparison. The same pattern holds on the six-month year-to-date window: revenue was higher than the prior-year half year, operating income was higher than the prior-year half year, net income attributable to parent was higher than the prior-year half year, and earnings per diluted share were higher than the prior-year half year, again with both the current and prior periods reported as profit. No line in the supported set crossed from loss to profit or from profit to loss; the transition is profit to profit throughout, on both windows. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.

The reporting entity is C. H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., identified by ticker CHRW, CIK 0001043277, and C. H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC., filing under 10-Q for the fiscal period covered by period-ended-2026-06-30, with the machine-substituted filing identifier 0001043277-26-000031. The period scope covers the three-month reporting period the three months ended June 30, 2026 alongside its prior-year comparative the three months ended June 30, 2025, and the six-month year-to-date period the six months ended June 30, 2026 alongside its prior-year comparative the six months ended June 30, 2025.

Source scope is limited to the financial statements presented in the filing itself. The accompanying narrative describes the Company as a global provider of transportation services and logistics solutions operating through a network of offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America, and the Middle East, with reportable segments organized as North American Surface Transportation ("NAST") and Global Forwarding, with all other segments included in All Other and Corporate, and directs readers to Note 8, Segment Reporting, for segment financial information. The cited note confirms that the condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited, have been prepared pursuant to SEC rules and regulations, and that interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year. The fair-value hierarchy levels referenced in the filing — Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 — are part of the source scope, and goodwill was tested under the described Step Zero and Step One analysis with no impairment indicated. No peer or industry comparison is provided within the filing evidence for this section's supported lines.

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Financial performance

- YOY The 10-Q filed by C. H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC. (CHRW) under accession 0001043277-26-000031 for period-ended-2026-06-30 presents revenue, operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share on both the three-month window (the three months ended June 30, 2026) and the six-month year-to-date window (the six months ended June 30, 2026), with comparative columns for the three months ended June 30, 2025 and the six months ended June 30, 2025. The authorized comparison language prints a profit in both the current and the prior period for every income-statement dimension in this section, and the authorized direction in each case is "increase" against the prior period. Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax is higher than the prior period on both the the six months ended June 30, 2026 and the three months ended June 30, 2026 comparisons, supported by $8,947,032,000 against $8,183,283,000 and $4,934,098,000 against $4,136,543,000. Operating Income (Loss) is higher than the prior period on both windows, with both periods presented as profit, a "profit to profit" transition, supported by $431,429,000 against $392,772,000 and $255,743,000 against $215,919,000. Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent is higher than the prior period on both windows, again a "profit to profit" transition, supported by $334,019,000 against $287,773,000 and $186,786,000 against $152,471,000. Earnings Per Share, Diluted is higher than the prior period on both windows, again a "profit to profit" transition, supported by $2.78 per diluted share against $2.37 per diluted share and $1.56 per diluted share against $1.26 per diluted share. The filing evidence does not attribute any of these movements to a single cause, so each gap is recorded as The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.. The peer and industry-comparison dimension is absent from the filing evidence, so the only allowed statement is The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison..

- QOQ The FACT catalog for this section does not include a quarter-over-quarter pairing, and no authorized transition is listed between the current quarter and the immediately preceding quarter. The section therefore cannot support a quarter-over-quarter narrative for revenue, operating income, net income or diluted EPS from the supplied keys, and that dimension is left unsupplied rather than fabricated.

- GUIDANCE The filing evidence does not include a forward-looking guidance statement, a quantified outlook range, or a management target for revenue, operating income, EPS or any other line item in the 10-Q filing. The discussion of revolving credit-facility pricing and pending ASU adoptions describes available capacity and prospective accounting changes rather than management's forecasted financial results, so no forward expectation is asserted here.

- EXPECTATIONS The accounting-policy and fair-value discussion confirms that goodwill passed its annual impairment test, that the recently adopted credit-loss practical expedient was applied without material impact, and that foreign currency forward contracts sit in the lower fair-value tier and were not material to the periods presented. The recently issued internal-use software and expense-disaggregation ASUs are described as under evaluation rather than effective for this filing. Readers comparing this pattern of profit-to-profit growth on both year-over-year windows can cross-check it against Broadcom Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, and Diluted EPS Year-Over-Year in Filing, which uses the same authorized direction language. The reference labeled Note 8 is cited for segment-reporting context and Note 1 anchors the significant-accounting-policies summary.

Operating drivers and segments

- The issuer groups operations into North American Surface Transportation and Global Forwarding as the two reportable segments, with Robinson Fresh, Managed Solutions, non-North-American surface transportation, miscellaneous revenues, and unallocated corporate items rolled into All Other and Corporate. - Segment financial detail is housed separately in Note 8; this section reads the consolidated income-statement evidence the filing supplies. - Consolidated revenue of $4,934,098,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2026 is higher than the prior-year revenue of $4,136,543,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and the year-to-date reading of $8,947,032,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026 is also higher than $8,183,283,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2025.

- Operating income of $255,743,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2026 is higher than $215,919,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2025, and the year-to-date operating income of $431,429,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2026 is higher than $392,772,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2025. - Both revenue and operating income are profits in each window, with the consolidated operating result higher than revenue in proportional terms on both the three-month and six-month comparisons — a qualitative sign of margin expansion rather than the inverse, though the filing does not present a segment-level split of that gap here.

- Cross-segment contrast, segment-specific revenue or margin numbers, and any color on Robinson Fresh, Managed Solutions, or non-North-American surface transportation are not reproduced in the quoted narrative; readers seeking those splits must turn to Note 8. - Management's own forward-looking commentary for the period is limited to accounting-policy housekeeping rather than operating drivers. The narrative explains the adoption of the practical expedient under the amended credit-losses guidance, noting no material impact on the consolidated financial statements.

- It also describes the September ASU on internal-use software capitalization, the effective-period trigger for the expense-disaggregation ASU, and the entity's ongoing evaluation of those pronouncements, none of which addresses the consolidated revenue and operating-income direction flagged above. - Management's qualitative goodwill Step Zero analysis indicated that reporting-unit fair values exceeded carrying values, so no Step One impairment testing was triggered for the period — an absence-of-impairment statement rather than a growth-driver explanation.

- Outside this housekeeping, the filing presents no independent management narrative attributing the higher revenue and higher operating-income readings to specific operating drivers, volumes, pricing, mix, or cost actions. The filing does not attribute the period-on-period change to any single cause. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.

- Therefore the issuer's own explanation does not bridge the gap between the consolidated numbers and any operating driver, and the section's evidence base is the consolidated numbers plus the segment-definition language rather than a causal story.

Cash flow and capital

- For the six months covered by this filing, operating activities continued to generate positive cash, while financing activities were a net use of cash and investing activities were also a net use of cash, consistent with the broad shape a working-capital-heavy freight services business typically prints. The half-year operating cash flow figure is reported in the cash flow statement as $104,497,000 USD, against the prior-year comparable of $333,659,000 USD. The authorized direction for that comparison is a decrease, so the current period sits lower than the prior-year six-month window on an authorized basis.

Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities is shown as -$10,615,000 USD for the six-month period, compared with -$332,685,000 USD in the prior-year six months, again with the authorized direction being an increase, meaning the current outflow is smaller in magnitude than the prior-year outflow. Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities is reported as -$100,372,000 USD for the six months, versus -$8,504,000 USD for the prior-year six months, with the authorized direction recorded as a decrease, so the current period is a larger use of cash than the prior-year period on an authorized basis.

- Within financing outflows, capital returned to shareholders shows up as two distinct lines. Payments for Repurchase of Common Stock totaled $432,183,000 USD for the six-month window, against $128,767,000 USD in the prior-year six months, and the authorized direction is an increase, so buybacks were higher year over year. Payments of Dividends came in at $154,300,000 USD for the current six months, compared with $152,355,000 USD in the prior-year six months, also on an authorized increase basis.

The combination of higher buybacks and higher dividends is consistent with a continuing return-of-capital posture during the period. - Capital spending is captured by Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment, which is reported at $7,610,000 USD for the six-month period and at $10,640,000 USD for the prior-year six months. The authorized direction here is a decrease, meaning current capital expenditures sit below the prior-year level on an authorized basis.

- On the balance sheet, cash and cash equivalents closed the period at $154,590,000 USD as of the balance sheet date of June 30, 2026, and long-term debt excluding current maturities stood at $1,685,017,000 USD as of the same date. , and Senior Notes issued in April, all of which together form the company's external borrowing stack and explain why long-term debt is reported on the balance sheet even with cash on hand. - Liquidity and counterparty context is supported by foreign currency forward contracts classified under the Level 2 tier of the fair value hierarchy, used to manage exchange-rate exposure.

- The filing evidence does not attribute the year-over-year changes to any single cause, so any further narrative on what drove the shift in operating cash, financing, or investing flows is captured by The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause..

Peer and historical context

- For the three-month reporting period, Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax ran at a higher level than the prior-year comparative for the same three-month reporting window, continuing the same direction the top line showed for the six-month year-to-date period against its prior-year comparative. - Operating Income (Loss) for both the three-month reporting period and the six-month year-to-date period was higher than in the prior-year comparatives, and in both windows the line stayed profitable rather than flipping to a loss, so the franchise kept its operating profit status on both reporting windows.

- Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent again moved higher than the prior-year comparative on both the three-month and six-month year-to-date windows, with both periods remaining profitable rather than swinging to a loss, which lines up with the authorized profit-to-profit transition on each window. - One softer spot in the historical comparison is the cash engine: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities for the six-month year-to-date period was lower than the prior-year comparative, even though the line stayed positive, so the year-to-date earnings improvement was not matched by an equivalent lift in operating cash generation on that same year-to-date basis.

- Read against the prior-year windows rather than against the sequential quarter, the picture is one of a revenue-led earnings expansion in which both the quarter and the year-to-date posted higher revenue, higher operating income, and higher net income than a year earlier, while operating cash flow on the year-to-date basis softened against that same prior-year reference. - the filing does not include any external freight-forwarding or logistics peer benchmarks, so a clean sector relative read across rivals is not available in this evidence base, and historical comparison is therefore limited to the issuer's own year-over-year windows disclosed in the same filing.

- The filing evidence does not attribute the year-over-year move in revenue, operating income, net income, or operating cash flow to any single cause.

Scenario analysis

Anchored to the reported figures that the filing itself approves as the central profit-and-revenue measure, the base case assumes that the trends visible on the two reported windows continue rather than reverse. That means Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax on the three-month reporting period ($4,934,098,000 versus the prior-year comparative $4,136,543,000) holds the year-over-year improvement that the reported comparison confirms, and the same continuation logic applies to the six-month year-to-date period ($8,947,032,000 versus $8,183,283,000). On the profit line, Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent is reported as a profit in both the three-month window ($186,786,000 versus $152,471,000) and the six-month year-to-date window ($334,019,000 versus $287,773,000), with the authorized direction on both comparisons reading higher than the prior period. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.

The upside case layers two reinforcing conditions on top of the base. First, the cited note on the newly issued Senior Notes (Note 15) shows that the company completed a public debt raise during the period, which increases investable capital availability and could support follow-on funding actions if freight conditions improve. Second, the cited note on segment reporting (Note 8) underpins a recurring operating cadence that, combined with the year-over-year improvement in revenue for both the three-month reporting period and the six-month year-to-date period, leaves room for incremental margin gain if volume trends extend beyond what the current filing measures. Under that combination, the upside scenario expects the authorized profit-to-profit increase in Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent on both the three-month window and the six-month year-to-date window to widen rather than merely hold, with the Senior Notes facility providing flexible refinancing optionality at the redemption prices described in the cited note. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.

The downside case is the mirror of the base reversal. If the year-over-year improvement in Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax on either the three-month reporting period or the six-month year-to-date period stalls, the corresponding authorized profit-to-profit increase in Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent on the matching window would compress, since the two dimensions are the only profit-and-revenue magnitudes the filing evidence ties to the comparison. The Receivables Securitization Facility described in the source narrative adds a contingent liability path because acceleration can be triggered by the customary default and termination provisions; a working-capital squeeze would therefore interact with the Senior Notes covenant package in the cited note (Note 15), where holders of the disclosed threshold of outstanding principal could accelerate principal and accrued interest on a continuing event of default. Under that stress path, both the three-month and six-month reported profits would be exposed to a downside compression relative to the prior-year comparatives, even though the evidence treats the current authorized direction as higher than the prior period. The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause.

A general reader evaluating a different interim filing can compare the construction of these three conditional scenarios against the structure used in Broadcom Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, and Diluted EPS Year-Over-Year in Filing to see how a base/upside/downside frame is applied when the underlying year-over-year direction is also higher. The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison.

Risks and what to watch

- The filing covers the same items one would expect from this form type, with risk factors and legal proceedings summarized under Item 1A and controls and procedures language addressed under Item 4. A complete reading of those sections remains the authoritative source for the company's own catalogue of uncertainties.

Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax for the three months ended June 30, 2026 was $4,934,098,000 USD and for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was $8,947,032,000 USD. - Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $4,136,543,000 USD and for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $8,183,283,000 USD. - Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the three months ended June 30, 2026 was $186,786,000 USD and for the six months ended June 30, 2026 was $334,019,000 USD. - Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent for the three months ended June 30, 2025 was $152,471,000 USD and for the six months ended June 30, 2025 was $287,773,000 USD.

The narrative in the cited note acknowledges that the indenture lacks specified financial ratios or net-worth and liquidity levels that the registrant must adhere to. - Management describes stock-based compensation cost as measured at the grant date, with awards recognized as expense as they vest, and notes that the Plan permits grants of stock options at fair market value, performance-based restricted stock units, and time-based restricted stock units. - The cited note explains that fair value for the restricted awards is set at the market price on grant date, discounted for any post-vesting holding restrictions using the Black-Scholes option pricing model-protective put method, with the restriction periods varying by grant.

Earnings Per Share, Diluted for the three months ended June 30, 2026 versus the three months ended June 30, 2025 is presented as profit to profit with an authorized direction of increase, and Earnings Per Share, Diluted for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus the six months ended June 30, 2025 is also profit to profit with an authorized direction of increase, which is consistent with the reported Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Parent figures above. - Revenue from Contract with Customer, Excluding Assessed Tax is authorized as profit to profit with an authorized direction of increase on both the quarter and half-year windows, and Operating Income (Loss) carries the same authorized direction and transition pattern on both windows. - Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus the six months ended June 30, 2025 is authorized as positive to positive with an authorized direction of decrease, while Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities is authorized as negative to negative with an authorized direction of decrease, and Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities is authorized as negative to negative with an authorized direction of increase. - Payments for Repurchase of Common Stock and Payments of Dividends for the six months ended June 30, 2026 versus the six months ended June 30, 2025 are each authorized as positive to positive with an authorized direction of increase, while Payments to Acquire Property, Plant, and Equipment is authorized as positive to positive with an authorized direction of decrease.

The narrative does not present any management statement that contradicts the authorized direction or transition pattern above, so within the filing evidence there is no direct counter-evidence to the year-over-year comparisons listed.

The filing evidence does not attribute this change to any single cause. - The filing evidence contains no peer or industry comparison. - The filing evidence does not disclose segment-level detail for this dimension. - A consolidated read-through across the Broadcom Posts Higher Revenue, Operating Income, and Diluted EPS Year-Over-Year in Filing coverage could be useful as a cross-check once a true peer benchmark is added.