In last trading session, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (NASDAQ:JBHT) saw 0.85 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.32. Company’s recent per share price level of $148.05 trading at $0.19 or 0.13% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $14.69B. That closing price of JBHT’s stock is at a discount of -35.36% from its 52-week high price of $200.40 and is indicating a premium of 17.06% from its 52-week low price of $122.79. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 1.4 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 1.33 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (JBHT), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.93. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 16 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 7 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 9 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (NASDAQ:JBHT) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.13%, in the last five days JBHT remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Monday, 05/12/25 when the stock touched $148.05 price level, adding 3.25% to its value on the day. J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc’s shares saw a change of -13.25% in year-to-date performance and have moved 9.24% in past 5-day. J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (NASDAQ:JBHT) showed a performance of 18.70% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 3.24 million shares which calculate 1.99 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 150 to the stock, which implies a rise of 1.3% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 140 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 190. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 5.44% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 5.44% for stock’s current value.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (JBHT) estimates and forecasts
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 3.11% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 1.68% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 14.68%.
JBHT Dividends
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-14 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.18%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.74 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 0.85%.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (NASDAQ:JBHT)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 19.52% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 76.46 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 95.00%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 76.46% institutions for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at JBHT for having 9.99 million shares of worth $1.6 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.6881 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 6.39 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.1907 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.02 billion.
On the other hand, JANUS INVESTMENT FUND-Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 2.58 shares of worth $381.92 million or 2.60% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.52 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $373.07 million in the company or a holder of 2.54% of company’s stock.
