JBHT

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Industrials
282.35 live · 2026-08-13 15:59
61.4%
Brown Bear Score
61.5%
Business Conviction Score
71.7%
Position Health Score
27.2%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +93.6% · range 130.65–298.41

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 12.0%
OCF / assets 21.2%
FCF / revenue 14.0%
Gross margin 18.5%
ROIC 14.5%
Forward P/E 27.9

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 53.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-13 after the close · consensus EPS 2.18

Q1 15 revenue: 1.44bnQ1 15 net income: 91.93mQ1 15 EPS: 0.78Q2 15 revenue: 1.54bnQ2 15 net income: 103.42mQ2 15 EPS: 0.88Q2 15Q3 15 revenue: 1.59bnQ3 15 net income: 115.14mQ3 15 EPS: 0.99Q4 15 revenue: 1.62bnQ4 15 net income: 116.75mQ4 15 EPS: 1.00Q4 15Q1 16 revenue: 1.53bnQ1 16 net income: 100.10mQ1 16 EPS: 0.88Q2 16 revenue: 1.62bnQ2 16 net income: 105.01mQ2 16 EPS: 0.92Q2 16Q3 16 revenue: 1.69bnQ3 16 net income: 109.42mQ3 16 EPS: 0.97Q4 16 revenue: 1.72bnQ4 16 net income: 117.56mQ4 16 EPS: 1.04Q4 16Q1 17 revenue: 1.63bnQ1 17 net income: 102.70mQ1 17 EPS: 0.92Q2 17 revenue: 1.73bnQ2 17 net income: 97.87mQ2 17 EPS: 0.88Q2 17Q3 17 revenue: 1.84bnQ3 17 net income: 100.39mQ3 17 EPS: 0.91Q4 17 revenue: 1.99bnQ4 17 net income: 385.31mQ4 17 EPS: 3.47Q4 17

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.78–3.47, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q4 17. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2017-12-31 (derived) 1.99bn +15.6% 385.31m 3.47 2018-02-23
2017-09-30 1.84bn +9.0% 100.39m 0.91 2017-10-27
2017-06-30 1.73bn +6.9% 97.87m 0.88 2017-07-28
2017-03-31 1.63bn +6.6% 102.70m 0.92 2017-04-28

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 95.2M as at 2026-03-31
Change over 1 year -8.6%
Change over 3 years -11.0%
Public float $10.90bn as at 2025-06-30 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyAt Support Zone
Reference band 268.15 — 276.28
Protective stop 251.62 (Atr, 7.6% risk)
Support 270.86 (3 touches, 4.2% away)
Resistance 294.02 (4.1% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 4.1% below 294.02, where sellers have turned up before, and 4.2% above 270.86, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 3 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 7.6% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 8/24/47 (91% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 0d ago
Cloud thickness18% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 274.47 to 280.52. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages point the other way, so this is a mixed reading rather than a clear one.

Trailing returns

21 days +2.2%
63 days +18.7%
126 days +22.5%
252 days +97.7%
Below 252d high5.4%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtremely extended
Trend slopeRising
Direction of travelConverging back to trend

Takeaway Extreme upside extension above Kalman fair trend; entry risk is elevated.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width14.1% of price
Recent tightest11.3% (9 sessions ago, narrower than 71.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.25×
Band 258.39 — 297.66

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 14% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 265.38–297.912026-07-032026-08-13
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

JBHT: no binary-event flag. Near IV 36%, far IV 36% (ratio 0.99), implied move 4.2%.

Implied volatility 36% near (8d) · 36% far (99d)
Term structure 0.99× near/far
Historical volatility 28%
Implied vs historical 1.27×
Implied move ±4.2% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.51×
Skew Put Skew (1.24×)
Call wall 310.00 (+9.8% away)
Put wall 185.00 (-34.5% away)
Gamma pin 185.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 4.2% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-13. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Repair Attempt

Rotation health 29.8/100; Severe Rotation Headwind.

Rotation health 29.8
Rotation strength 58.4
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Lagging 87.8 94.0
Stock vs SPY Lagging 85.9 94.6
Sector vs SPY Lagging 85.1 94.5

Direction of travel: North-East / strengthening leadership

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 6/9 (+15.0)
  • Altman Z-score 8.66 (+10.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+3.0)
  • ROIC quality: 14.5% (+8.2)
  • FCF margin quality: 14.0% (+9.3)
  • Gross margin improving by 5.5 pts (+4.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.136) (+8.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.11 -> -0.14) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.01) (+3.0)
  • Track 1: volume confirmation 1.14x average (+0.9)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 44.1 and rising (+10.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.94 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: Bullish MACD divergence (+12.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 2.5% (+6.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 2.21 (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+1.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 45.2, 5-day change +19.5 (+12.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.03 (+0.6)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 3.1% (+1.9)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 3.1% (+2.4)
  • Track 1: constructive pullback zone (+15.0)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.61 (+3.1)
  • Regime convergence: SUPPORT_RESISTANCE_BOUNCE confidence 65.1/100 (EMERGING) (+13.0)

Negative signals

  • Underperforming sector over 20 days
  • Track 1: negative 20-day momentum acceleration (-0.12)
  • Track 1: bearish DI spread (-14.6)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.7%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.4%

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.