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$11.84 -0.32 (-2.63%)
Closing price 08/1/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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MRTN vs. HTLD, HUBG, JBHT, LSTR, WERN, KNX, SNDR, HTZ, FRPH, and ODFL

Should you be buying Marten Transport stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Marten Transport include Heartland Express (HTLD), Hub Group (HUBG), J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Landstar System (LSTR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Schneider National (SNDR), Hertz Global (HTZ), FRP (FRPH), and Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL).

Marten Transport vs. Its Competitors

Heartland Express (NASDAQ:HTLD) and Marten Transport (NASDAQ:MRTN) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings and analyst recommendations.

53.5% of Heartland Express shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 69.1% of Marten Transport shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.7% of Heartland Express shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.9% of Marten Transport shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Heartland Express presently has a consensus price target of $9.63, suggesting a potential upside of 27.82%. Marten Transport has a consensus price target of $19.00, suggesting a potential upside of 60.47%. Given Marten Transport's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Marten Transport is more favorable than Heartland Express.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Heartland Express
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.60
Marten Transport
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

Marten Transport has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Heartland Express. Heartland Express is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Marten Transport, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Heartland Express$1.05B0.56-$29.72M-$0.46-16.37
Marten Transport$963.71M1.00$26.92M$0.2645.54

In the previous week, Heartland Express had 7 more articles in the media than Marten Transport. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Heartland Express and 3 mentions for Marten Transport. Marten Transport's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat Heartland Express' score of 0.11 indicating that Marten Transport is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Heartland Express
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
3 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Marten Transport
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Heartland Express pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Marten Transport pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Heartland Express pays out -17.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Marten Transport pays out 92.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Marten Transport has a net margin of 2.27% compared to Heartland Express' net margin of -3.85%. Marten Transport's return on equity of 2.72% beat Heartland Express' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Heartland Express-3.85% -4.42% -2.69%
Marten Transport 2.27%2.72%2.12%

Heartland Express has a beta of 1.07, suggesting that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Marten Transport has a beta of 0.98, suggesting that its stock price is 2% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Marten Transport beats Heartland Express on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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MRTN vs. The Competition

MetricMarten TransportTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$990.96M$6.57B$7.13B$9.53B
Dividend Yield1.97%1.32%706.15%4.08%
P/E Ratio45.5427.5812.9323.80
Price / Sales1.001.42527.9588.08
Price / Cash7.159.307.6657.96
Price / Book1.253.222.065.55
Net Income$26.92M$167.24M$574.24M$259.03M
7 Day Performance-8.92%-10.97%-5.20%-4.56%
1 Month Performance-13.26%-10.25%-2.14%4.49%
1 Year Performance-33.93%-11.08%-2.64%18.05%

Marten Transport Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MRTN
Marten Transport
3.9369 of 5 stars
$11.84
-2.6%
$19.00
+60.5%
-35.4%$990.96M$963.71M45.543,776
HTLD
Heartland Express
4.3769 of 5 stars
$8.46
+1.6%
$9.75
+15.2%
-40.8%$664.57M$996.61M-23.505,700
HUBG
Hub Group
4.089 of 5 stars
$33.95
+0.2%
$42.01
+23.7%
-27.3%$2.08B$3.95B19.976,500Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
JBHT
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
4.865 of 5 stars
$147.60
-0.9%
$164.90
+11.7%
-17.3%$14.64B$12.06B26.8433,646Analyst Revision
LSTR
Landstar System
4.509 of 5 stars
$135.80
-0.3%
$151.31
+11.4%
-31.3%$4.75B$4.80B26.891,441Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast
WERN
Werner Enterprises
3.9551 of 5 stars
$27.83
+0.4%
$30.40
+9.2%
-29.9%$1.72B$2.97B95.979,287News Coverage
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
KNX
Knight-Swift Transportation
4.9607 of 5 stars
$44.51
-0.3%
$53.06
+19.2%
-21.3%$7.21B$7.41B47.3535,300Positive News
SNDR
Schneider National
4.6456 of 5 stars
$25.12
+0.2%
$27.29
+8.6%
-14.1%$4.40B$5.29B35.8819,400Trending News
Earnings Report
Dividend Announcement
HTZ
Hertz Global
0.4471 of 5 stars
$7.44
-1.2%
$4.78
-35.7%
+58.9%$2.30B$9.05B-0.7326,000News Coverage
Negative News
Upcoming Earnings
Gap Down
FRPH
FRP
1.0829 of 5 stars
$27.39
+1.7%
N/A-11.1%$522.88M$41.77M76.0810Upcoming Earnings
ODFL
Old Dominion Freight Line
4.2514 of 5 stars
$163.25
+0.7%
$174.45
+6.9%
-30.2%$34.50B$5.81B30.6321,895Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Upgrade

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This page (NASDAQ:MRTN) was last updated on 8/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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