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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Road & Rail · CIK 0000728535
$228.59
+0.97% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$21.62B market value
From HUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 · read the filing
HUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES moves freight by road and runs warehouses. It took in $12.00B last year, which makes it a large company. Of every dollar it sells, about 5 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by debt, with profitability worth watching, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From HUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
$617.8M → $947.6M
Cash
$47.0M → $17.3M
Long-term debt
$977.7M → $766.9M
Shares in issue
100.6M → 94.6M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 24, 2026
Improved: +53.4%
$617.8M to $947.6MCritical
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
JBHT rose 0.97% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.37%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 0.6 points above its sector and 2.0 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 8% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 20% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 5 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $598.3M last year.
No. Sales shrank 0.7% last year.
No. Its borrowings would take under a year of cash flow to clear. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.82 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 29 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 10% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 12 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $598.3M and generated $1.68B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 21, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 21, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 25, 2022Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $12.00B | $12.09B | $12.83B | $14.81B | $12.17B | −0.7% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $281.5M | $306.4M | $274.6M | $215.4M | $195.6M | −8.1% |
| Operating income | $865.1M | $831.2M | $993.2M | $1.33B | $1.05B | +4.1% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 7.2% | 6.9% | 7.7% | 9.0% | 8.6% | +0.3 pts |
| Interest expense | $75.2M | $79.0M | $65.9M | $51.2M | $46.3M | −4.8% |
| Income before tax | $794.1M | $759.5M | $934.9M | $1.28B | $999.8M | +4.6% |
| Net income | $598.3M | $570.9M | $728.3M | $969.4M | $760.8M | +4.8% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 5.0% | 4.7% | 5.7% | 6.5% | 6.3% | +0.3 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $6.32 | $5.68 | $7.06 | $9.34 | $7.24 | +11.4% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JBHTHUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC · this page | 6.0/10 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +19.4% · Profit +40.7% · Earnings per share +45.1% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from JBHT's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 6.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 6.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 21, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 8.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.7 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
7 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
4.53
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -63.2%
$47.0M to $17.3MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -21.6%
$977.7M to $766.9MSignificant
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -5.9%
100.6M to 94.6MSignificant
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: -15.6%
$865.4M to $730.7MSignificant
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Improved: +11.4%
$5.68 to $6.32Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 24, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +40.7%
$128.6M to $181.0MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +45.1%
$1.33 to $1.93Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Deteriorated: -91.8%
$50.9M to $4.2MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +19.4%
$2.93B to $3.50BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +31.5%
$197.3M to $259.5MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: +12.3%
$1.02B to $1.15BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: -3.0%
96.8M to 93.9MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 24, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +25.3%
$207.0M to $259.5MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +27.9%
$141.6M to $181.0MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +28.4%
$1.50 to $1.93Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +14.4%
$3.06B to $3.50BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: -12.1%
$1.30B to $1.15BNotable
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Deteriorated: -8.8%
$4.6M to $4.2MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
6 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 6% and 10%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 31 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 31 analysts publishing on this company, 8 say strong buy, 12 say buy, 10 say hold and 1 say sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 3.4% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 34.8x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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| Median of peers | 7.3/10 | — | 0.8% | 7.9% | 38.69x | 0.35x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Published results
Quarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Free cash flow +53.3% · Long-term debt +48.0% · Cash -89.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure · Reported another event
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Free cash flow +53.4% · Cash -63.2% · Long-term debt -21.6% — against FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingSigned a material agreement · Terminated a material agreement · Took on a direct financial obligation
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Cash -56.4% · Earnings per share +19.0% · Shares in issue -5.6% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Long-term debt -31.3% · Shares in issue -5.1% · Profit -5.3% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2025
Free cash flow -39.8% · Long-term debt -35.6% · Cash -32.4% — against Q1 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingPrimary sources and further research