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NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Road & Rail · CIK 0001177702
$338.84
+1.55% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 21, 2026
$9.03B market value
From SAIA INC's FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 · read the filing
SAIA moves freight by road and runs warehouses. It took in $3.23B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 8 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by debt, with profitability and growth worth watching.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From SAIA INC's FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Free cash flow
-$459.9M → $27.3M
Capital spending
$1.04B → $567.6M
Operating income
$482.2M → $352.2M
Profit
$362.1M → $255.0M
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 24, 2026
Improved: turned positive
-$459.9M to $27.3MCritical
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
SAIA rose 1.55% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.35%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 1.2 points above its sector and 2.6 points above the market.
These coincide with the move in time. None is presented as its cause: a price can move on news that names no company, on the wider market, or on trading that no document records.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
Opinions from 27 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 27 analysts publishing on this company, 9 say strong buy, 10 say buy, 7 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.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 8 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $255.0M last year.
Barely. Sales were roughly flat, up 0.8%.
No. Its borrowings would take under a year of cash flow to clear. For every $1 it owes, it owns $3.85 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $255.0M and generated $595.0M 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 24, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 23, 2024Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 23, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 23, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $3.23B | $3.21B | $2.88B | $2.79B | $2.29B | +0.8% |
| Operating income | $352.2M | $482.2M | $460.5M | $470.5M | $335.1M | −27.0% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 10.9% | 15.0% | 16.0% | 16.9% | 14.6% | −4.1 pts |
| Interest expense | $16.4M | $8.9M | $2.5M | $2.6M | $3.2M | +84.1% |
| Income before tax | $337.4M | $476.0M | $466.2M | $468.0M | $332.8M | −29.1% |
| Net income | $255.0M | $362.1M | $354.9M | $357.4M | $253.2M | −29.6% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 7.9% | 11.3% | 12.3% | 12.8% | 11.1% | −3.4 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $9.57 | $13.61 | $13.37 | $13.51 | $9.62 | −29.7% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Nothing recent
No insider trades, pending-sale notices or 5% stake filings from SAIA in the last few months. That is the ordinary case, not a gap.
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.
Reported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 5 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 4 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-02-24. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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 SAIA'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. Total liabilities were not tagged directly and were calculated as assets minus equity.
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 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 8.7 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 10.0 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 8/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 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
6 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.
6.12
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.
Changed: -45.6%
$1.04B to $567.6MCritical
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.
Deteriorated: -27.0%
$482.2M to $352.2MSignificant
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: -29.6%
$362.1M to $255.0MSignificant
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.
Deteriorated: −4.1 pts
15.0% to 10.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −3.4 pts
11.3% to 7.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Deteriorated: -29.7%
$13.61 to $9.57Significant
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: -16.0%
$194.0M to $163.0MSignificant
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.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it.
Improved: -67.4%
$307.0M to $100.0MCritical
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: +346.0%
$18.8M to $84.0MCritical
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: +17.1%
$817.1M to $956.5MSignificant
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: +26.0%
$99.4M to $125.2MSignificant
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: +32.0%
$71.4M to $94.3MSignificant
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: +31.8%
$2.68 to $3.53Significant
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: +1.1 pts
8.7% to 9.9%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Jul 30, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +87.4%
$66.8M to $125.2MCritical
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: +89.0%
$49.9M to $94.3MCritical
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: +89.0%
$1.87 to $3.53Critical
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: +114.4%
$39.2M to $84.0MCritical
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: +18.6%
$806.2M to $956.5MSignificant
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: +4.8 pts
8.3% to 13.1%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +3.7 pts
6.2% to 9.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: -10.7%
$112.0M to $100.0MNotable
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.
3 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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About 4.4% 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.
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The trailing P/E is 29.9x — investors pay $29.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +17.1% · Profit margin +1.1 pts · Long-term debt -67.4% — against Q2 FY2025
Published results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
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Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Free cash flow turned positive · Long-term debt -61.5% · Cash +136.9% — against Q1 FY2025
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Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2025
Operating margin −4.1 pts · Free cash flow turned positive · Capital spending -45.6% — against FY2024
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingReported another event
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Cash +146.4% · Long-term debt +19.1% · Operating income -5.2% — against Q3 FY2024
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