NASDAQ:ODFL - Old Dominion Freight Line Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Old Dominion Freight Line trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "ODFL."

Old Dominion Freight Line declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 31st. Stockholders of record on Thursday, September 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.13 per share on Thursday, September 20th. This represents a $0.52 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.35%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, September 5th. View Old Dominion Freight Line's Dividend History.

Old Dominion Freight Line announced that its board has approved a share buyback program on Thursday, May 17th 2018, which authorizes the company to buyback $250,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 2.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are typically a sign that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July, 26th. The transportation company reported $1.99 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.82 by $0.17. The transportation company earned $1.03 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.03 billion. Old Dominion Freight Line had a return on equity of 20.31% and a net margin of 15.37%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 23.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.19 earnings per share. View Old Dominion Freight Line's Earnings History.

Old Dominion Freight Line is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October, 25th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Old Dominion Freight Line.

13 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Old Dominion Freight Line's stock. Their forecasts range from $101.00 to $175.00. On average, they anticipate Old Dominion Freight Line's share price to reach $145.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 3.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Old Dominion Freight Line.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Old Dominion Freight Line in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Old Dominion Freight Line.

Some companies that are related to Old Dominion Freight Line include J B Hunt Transport Services (JBHT), Knight-Swift Transportation (KNX), Schneider National (SNDR), Landstar System (LSTR), Werner Enterprises (WERN), Saia (SAIA), Heartland Express (HTLD), Marten Transport (MRTN), ArcBest (ARCB), Universal Logistics (ULH), Covenant Transportation Group (CVTI), P.A.M. Transportation Services (PTSI), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), USA Truck (USAK) and Celadon Group (CGI).

Media stories about ODFL stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Old Dominion Freight Line earned a coverage optimism score of 0.19 on Accern's scale. They also assigned news stories about the transportation company an impact score of 49.71 out of 100, indicating that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View Recent Headlines for Old Dominion Freight Line.

Old Dominion Freight Line's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (7.80%), Janus Henderson Group PLC (3.04%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.90%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.89%), Wasatch Advisors Inc. (0.82%) and Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (0.79%). Company insiders that own Old Dominion Freight Line stock include David S Congdon, Jeffrey W Congdon and Leo H Suggs. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Old Dominion Freight Line.

ODFL stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Federated Investors Inc. PA, Fiera Capital Corp, FMR LLC, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Bank of America Corp DE, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. View Insider Buying and Selling for Old Dominion Freight Line.

ODFL stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo & Company MN, CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC, Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., BlackRock Inc., Carillon Tower Advisers Inc., First Trust Advisors LP and Dai Ichi Life Insurance Company Ltd. View Insider Buying and Selling for Old Dominion Freight Line.

Shares of ODFL 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 ODFL stock can currently be purchased for approximately $149.95.

Old Dominion Freight Line has a market capitalization of $12.04 billion and generates $3.36 billion in revenue each year. The transportation company earns $463.77 million in net income (profit) each year or $4.36 on an earnings per share basis. Old Dominion Freight Line employs 19,183 workers across the globe.

Old Dominion Freight Line's mailing address is 500 OLD DOMINION WAY, THOMASVILLE NC, 27360. The transportation company can be reached via phone at 336-889-5000.