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ARCBEST CORPORATION: research and development expense

Research and development expense for ARCBEST CORPORATION. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.

All ARCBEST CORPORATION financial histories

What this measure means

Research and development costs recognized as expense. Capitalization policies and acquired projects can make this differ from total cash invested in development.

Exact concept: us-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2020-01-01 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.

Selected filing history

Research and development expense in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
2025-01-012025-12-3129,100,000USD2026-02-2510-K · 0001104659-26-019699
2024-01-012024-12-3134,100,000USD2026-02-2510-K · 0001104659-26-019699
2023-01-012023-12-3152,400,000USD2026-02-2510-K · 0001104659-26-019699
2022-01-012022-12-3140,800,000USD2025-03-0310-K · 0001558370-25-002037
2021-01-012021-12-3132,800,000USD2023-02-2410-K · 0001558370-23-002053
2020-01-012020-12-3125,600,000USD2022-02-2510-K · 0001558370-22-002184

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Entity
ARCBEST CORPORATION / CIK 0000894405
Captured
2026-09-20T05:04:12.049Z
SEC response SHA-256
84141652d5409a0e7b0f86f2c3f0e81cc0cfbe8678d2e0610541e4fbd868aa1a

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

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Read the published dataset with Python
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000894405.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))