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J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT) Competitors

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$145.02 -1.22 (-0.83%)
As of 05/20/2025 04:00 PM Eastern

JBHT vs. ODFL, UHAL, SAIA, KNX, R, LSTR, CAR, HTZ, WERN, and MRTN

Should you be buying J.B. Hunt Transport Services stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of J.B. Hunt Transport Services include Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL), U-Haul (UHAL), Saia (SAIA), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Ryder System (R), Landstar System (LSTR), Avis Budget Group (CAR), Hertz Global (HTZ), Werner Enterprises (WERN), and Marten Transport (MRTN). These companies are all part of the "trucking" industry.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services vs.

Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL) and J.B. Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ:JBHT) are both large-cap transportation companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.

Old Dominion Freight Line has higher earnings, but lower revenue than J.B. Hunt Transport Services. J.B. Hunt Transport Services is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Old Dominion Freight Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Old Dominion Freight Line$5.73B6.26$1.19B$5.3331.82
J.B. Hunt Transport Services$12.06B1.19$570.89M$5.5126.32

Old Dominion Freight Line presently has a consensus target price of $182.26, indicating a potential upside of 7.47%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a consensus target price of $162.00, indicating a potential upside of 11.71%. Given J.B. Hunt Transport Services' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe J.B. Hunt Transport Services is more favorable than Old Dominion Freight Line.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Old Dominion Freight Line
1 Sell rating(s)
13 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.29
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
0 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
11 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.55

Old Dominion Freight Line pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays an annual dividend of $1.76 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Old Dominion Freight Line pays out 21.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. J.B. Hunt Transport Services pays out 31.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Old Dominion Freight Line has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and J.B. Hunt Transport Services has increased its dividend for 22 consecutive years. J.B. Hunt Transport Services is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Old Dominion Freight Line has a beta of 1.31, suggesting that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, J.B. Hunt Transport Services has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services received 187 more outperform votes than Old Dominion Freight Line when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 59.15% of users gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services an outperform vote while only 52.81% of users gave Old Dominion Freight Line an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Old Dominion Freight LineOutperform Votes
563
52.81%
Underperform Votes
503
47.19%
J.B. Hunt Transport ServicesOutperform Votes
750
59.15%
Underperform Votes
518
40.85%

77.8% of Old Dominion Freight Line shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 74.9% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are held by institutional investors. 9.9% of Old Dominion Freight Line shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, Old Dominion Freight Line had 20 more articles in the media than J.B. Hunt Transport Services. MarketBeat recorded 42 mentions for Old Dominion Freight Line and 22 mentions for J.B. Hunt Transport Services. J.B. Hunt Transport Services' average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Old Dominion Freight Line's score of 1.01 indicating that J.B. Hunt Transport Services is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Old Dominion Freight Line
26 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
19 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Old Dominion Freight Line has a net margin of 20.40% compared to J.B. Hunt Transport Services' net margin of 4.72%. Old Dominion Freight Line's return on equity of 28.02% beat J.B. Hunt Transport Services' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Old Dominion Freight Line20.40% 28.02% 21.65%
J.B. Hunt Transport Services 4.72%14.05%6.83%

Summary

J.B. Hunt Transport Services beats Old Dominion Freight Line on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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JBHT vs. The Competition

MetricJ.B. Hunt Transport ServicesTrucking, except local IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$14.39B$5.77B$285.17B$8.48B
Dividend Yield1.19%1.28%3.78%4.11%
P/E Ratio26.0824.8914.0520.05
Price / Sales1.191.19276.58117.08
Price / Cash12.7610.0711.5434.62
Price / Book3.642.411.954.61
Net Income$570.89M$207.92M$512.32M$248.19M
7 Day Performance-1.94%-5.04%-0.40%2.97%
1 Month Performance14.08%8.50%12.98%16.58%
1 Year Performance-9.00%-22.88%-9.11%8.16%

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
JBHT
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
4.663 of 5 stars
$145.02
-0.8%
$162.00
+11.7%
-11.6%$14.39B$12.06B26.0837,200Positive News
ODFL
Old Dominion Freight Line
3.2429 of 5 stars
$176.07
+11.2%
$183.37
+4.1%
-5.2%$37.21B$5.73B32.1323,500Positive News
High Trading Volume
UHAL
U-Haul
0.5825 of 5 stars
$66.79
+4.6%
N/A-6.5%$13.10B$5.69B30.9232,200Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
SAIA
Saia
3.3507 of 5 stars
$292.91
+12.4%
$342.58
+17.0%
-30.3%$7.80B$3.24B21.6812,300Positive News
High Trading Volume
KNX
Knight-Swift Transportation
4.198 of 5 stars
$46.72
+10.1%
$50.60
+8.3%
-6.6%$7.57B$7.41B64.0128,500Positive News
High Trading Volume
R
Ryder System
3.7122 of 5 stars
$156.75
+8.1%
$160.50
+2.4%
+22.6%$6.48B$12.73B14.1348,300Positive News
LSTR
Landstar System
3.9296 of 5 stars
$143.81
+6.1%
$155.67
+8.2%
-21.6%$5.03B$4.82B26.051,450High Trading Volume
CAR
Avis Budget Group
2.3912 of 5 stars
$103.76
-0.4%
$117.00
+12.8%
-5.3%$3.65B$11.62B-2.0024,500Trending News
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
HTZ
Hertz Global
0.7141 of 5 stars
$6.94
+3.3%
$4.12
-40.7%
+23.0%$2.14B$9.05B-0.7427,000Insider Trade
Gap Up
WERN
Werner Enterprises
2.7731 of 5 stars
$28.18
+7.5%
$29.69
+5.4%
-26.9%$1.74B$2.97B51.2414,300Gap Up
MRTN
Marten Transport
4.1784 of 5 stars
$13.95
+6.3%
$19.33
+38.6%
-25.1%$1.14B$937.19M41.034,580Positive News
Gap Up

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This page (NASDAQ:JBHT) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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