J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (NASDAQ:JBHT) shares, rose in value on Friday, March 28, with the stock price down by -3.10% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $146.12.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $150.80, falling within a range of $145.76 and $151.01. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.155 whereas the PE ratio was 26.28 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $200.40, and the low was $144.34. On the whole, JBHT has fluctuated by -8.04% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc currently standing at about $14.61 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Jan-15. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.73, with its dividend yield at 1.18%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that JBHT’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.43, with the price of JBHT currently trading nearly -4.45% and -10.14% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 33.48, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 2.67% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.84%. Furthermore, J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (JBHT)’s beta value is 1.27, and its average true range (ATR) is 4.20.
A comparison of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (JBHT) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. JBHT showed an intraday change of -3.10% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -24.57%%.
Data on historical trading for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (NASDAQ:JBHT) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 1.24 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 983.18K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 100.56 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 20.70% of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 76.17% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 3.6 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 3.77. According to the data, the short interest in J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc (JBHT) stood at 454.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 2.5 million. The stock has fallen by -14.38% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the JBHT stock heading into the next quarter.
