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JB Hunt Transport Services (JB Hunt Transport Services) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 4.20% (As of Mar. 2024)
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JB Hunt Transport Services's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $21,864 Mil. JB Hunt Transport Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $918 Mil. JB Hunt Transport Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 4.20%.

The historical rank and industry rank for JB Hunt Transport Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

JBHT' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.79   Med: 5.78   Max: 8.43
Current: 5.03

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of JB Hunt Transport Services was 8.43%. The lowest was 3.79%. And the median was 5.78%.

JBHT's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
63.81% of 1003 companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 6.98 vs JBHT: 5.03

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. JB Hunt Transport Services's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was 14.66%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.


JB Hunt Transport Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for JB Hunt Transport Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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JB Hunt Transport Services Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 5.38 4.63 4.66 6.91 4.52

JB Hunt Transport Services Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.58 6.01 5.15 4.52 4.20

Competitive Comparison

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, JB Hunt Transport Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


JB Hunt Transport Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, JB Hunt Transport Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where JB Hunt Transport Services's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



JB Hunt Transport Services Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation

In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.

JB Hunt Transport Servicess Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1000.82/22139.8868
=4.52 %

JB Hunt Transport Services's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $918 Mil.



JB Hunt Transport Services  (NAS:JBHT) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation

Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.

Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.


Be Aware

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % based on Don Yacktman's definition is a better measure of the expected rate of return for a stock.


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JB Hunt Transport Services (JB Hunt Transport Services) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
615 J.B. Hunt Corporate Drive, P.O. Box 130, Lowell, AR, USA, 72745-0130
J.B. Hunt Transport Services ranks among the top surface transportation companies in North America by revenue. Its primary operating segments are intermodal delivery, which uses the Class I rail carriers for the underlying line-haul movement of its owned containers (48% of sales in 2023); dedicated trucking services that provide customer-specific fleet needs (28%); for-hire truckload (6%); heavy goods final-mile delivery (7%), and asset-light truck brokerage (11%).
Executives
James K Thompson director, officer: President and Chief Executive 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Shelley Simpson other: President, ICS 615 JB HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Spencer Frazier officer: EVP of Sales and Marketing 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Eric Mcgee officer: EVP Highway Services 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Darren P. Field officer: EVP Intermodal 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
David Keefauver officer: EVP of DCS 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Bradley W. Hicks officer: EVP Dedicated 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Nicholas Hobbs officer: EVP/President DCS PO BOX 130, 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Stuart Lockard Scott other: EVP/CIO 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
John Kuhlow other: VP/Controller 615 JB HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Persio V Lisboa director C/O NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, 2701 NAVISTAR DRIVE, LISLE IL 60532
Alfred C Harper other: EVP and Chief Operations Offic 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Sharilyn S Gasaway director ONE ALLIED DRIVE, LITTLE ROCK AR 72202
Brian Webb officer: EVP- Final Mile Services 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745
Jennifer Boattini officer: See Remarks 615 J.B. HUNT CORPORATE DRIVE, LOWELL AR 72745