Hunt J B Transport Services Inc
Hunt J B Transport Services Inc (JBHT) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Integrated Freight & Logistics, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Lowell, United States and has 31,750 employees. The company is worth $21.66B and trades at 32.5x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $12B in fiscal 2025, down 0.7% from the year before. Net income was $598.28M. The share price is 23.1% below its 52-week high of $299.76. It pays a dividend yielding 0.78%, and has raised its annual dividend for 21 years in a row in our records. 4 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $1.18B. In that quarter, 1 of them opened or added to the position and 2 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +19.7% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,214.88▲ +21.5%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $194.34 | $170.66 | $199.74 | $174.36 | $204.40 | $136.65 | $116.78 | $93.04 | $114.98 | $97.07 | $73.36 | $84.25 | $77.30 | $59.71 | $45.07 | $40.81 | $32.27 | $26.27 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 5.2% a year plus a 0.8% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 25.8 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.2% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EFXEquifax Inc | $187.14 | 28.4x | 4.9x | 1.20% | 15.44% | $21.99B |
| ATIATI Inc | $161.84 | 53.1x | 11.7x | 0.00% | 25.36% | $22.04B |
| XPOXPO, Inc. | $188.75 | 55.5x | 11.3x | 0.00% | 21.59% | $22.1B |
| NVTnVent Electric plc | $127.67 |
| P/E | 25.8x | 31.8x | 30.7x | 28.7x | 18.9x | 28.6x | 28.8x | 24.5x | 21.0x | 18.6x | 25.5x | 20.0x | 26.7x | 26.9x | 23.1x | 21.4x | 26.2x | 30.7x | 16.8x |
| P/S | 1.4x | 1.5x | 1.4x | 1.6x | 1.2x | 1.8x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.8x | 1.6x | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.3x | 1.3x | 0.9x |
| P/B | 6.4x | 5.2x | 4.3x | 5.0x | 4.9x | 6.9x | 4.4x | 5.5x | 4.8x | 6.9x | 7.6x | 6.4x | 8.1x | 9.0x | 8.9x | 9.3x | 8.6x | 6.4x | 6.4x |
| EPS | $6.12 | $5.56 | $6.97 | $9.21 | $7.14 | $4.74 | $4.77 | $4.43 | $6.18 | $3.81 | $3.66 | $3.16 | $2.87 | $2.59 | $2.11 | $1.56 | $1.05 | $1.56 |
| Dividend yield | 0.93% | 0.91% | 1.01% | 0.84% | 0.92% | 0.58% | 0.79% | 0.89% | 1.03% | 0.80% | 0.91% | 1.15% | 0.95% | 0.58% | 1.19% | 1.15% | 1.18% | 1.36% | 1.52% |
| Payout | 23.60% | 28.76% | 30.94% | 24.10% | 17.37% | 16.53% | 22.78% | 21.80% | 21.67% | 14.89% | 23.10% | 22.95% | 25.32% | 15.68% | 27.41% | 24.64% | 30.77% | 41.90% | 25.64% |
| Profit margin | 5.68% | 4.99% | 4.72% | 5.68% | 6.54% | 6.25% | 5.25% | 5.63% | 5.68% | 9.55% | 6.59% | 6.90% | 6.08% | 6.13% | 6.14% | 5.68% | 5.26% | 4.26% | 5.38% |
| ROE | 28.50% | 16.78% | 14.22% | 17.75% | 26.44% | 24.40% | 19.46% | 22.78% | 23.30% | 37.31% | 30.56% | 32.86% | 31.12% | 33.82% | 39.19% | 45.28% | 34.84% | 21.19% | 37.92% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-31.3% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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