NASDAQ:MRTN - Marten Transport Stock Price, Price Target & More

Marten Transport trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MRTN."

Marten Transport declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 8th. Investors of record on Friday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.025 per share on Friday, June 29th. This represents a $0.10 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.42%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, June 14th. View Marten Transport's Dividend History.

Shares of Marten Transport split before market open on Monday, July 10th 2017. The 5-3 split was announced on Thursday, June 15th 2017. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Friday, July 7th 2017. An investor that had 100 shares of Marten Transport stock prior to the split would have 167 shares after the split.

Marten Transport, Ltd (NASDAQ:MRTN) posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April, 19th. The transportation company reported $0.19 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.19. The transportation company had revenue of $187 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $188.70 million. Marten Transport had a net margin of 12.98% and a return on equity of 7.27%. Marten Transport's revenue for the quarter was up 8.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $0.25 earnings per share. View Marten Transport's Earnings History.

Marten Transport is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, July, 18th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Marten Transport.

3 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Marten Transport's stock. Their predictions range from $20.00 to $30.00. On average, they anticipate Marten Transport's stock price to reach $25.00 in the next year. View Analyst Ratings for Marten Transport.

Marten Transport saw a decrease in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totalling 808,480 shares, a decrease of 45.4% from the April 30th total of 1,481,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 345,981 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 2.1% of the company's shares are short sold. View Marten Transport's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Marten Transport include Schneider National (SNDR), Landstar System (LSTR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Saia (SAIA), Heartland Express (HTLD), ArcBest (ARCB), Universal Logistics (ULH), Covenant Transportation Group (CVTI), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), USA Truck (USAK) and Celadon Group (CGI).

Headlines about MRTN stock have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. Accern scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than twenty million news and blog sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Marten Transport earned a media sentiment score of 0.02 on Accern's scale. They also gave news articles about the transportation company an impact score of 46.60 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Marten Transport's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (9.92%), Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (8.35%), Northern Trust Corp (1.68%), Granite Investment Partners LLC (1.19%), 12th Street Asset Management Company LLC (0.99%) and Next Century Growth Investors LLC (0.78%). Company insiders that own Marten Transport stock include James J Hinnendael, John H Turner, Larry B Hagness, Randolph L Marten and Thomas J Winkel. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Marten Transport.

MRTN stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including WINTON GROUP Ltd, Next Century Growth Investors LLC, Penn Capital Management Co. Inc., Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Guggenheim Capital LLC, Granite Investment Partners LLC and Millennium Management LLC. Company insiders that have sold Marten Transport company stock in the last year include Larry B Hagness and Thomas J Winkel. View Insider Buying and Selling for Marten Transport.

MRTN stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including O Shaughnessy Asset Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Intrinsic Edge Capital Management LLC, Virginia Retirement Systems ET AL, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Allianz Asset Management GmbH, Argent Capital Management LLC and CIBC World Markets Inc.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Marten Transport.

Shares of MRTN can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of MRTN stock can currently be purchased for approximately $24.00.

Marten Transport has a market capitalization of $1.30 billion and generates $698.12 million in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $90.28 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.62 on an earnings per share basis. Marten Transport employs 3,492 workers across the globe.

Marten Transport's mailing address is 129 MARTEN STREET, MONDOVI WI, 55402. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 715-926-4216 or via email at [email protected]