J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:JBHT) does about 848.78K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 745230 shares change hands in Friday trading. The company now has a market cap of 17.09B USD. Its current market price is $165.56, marking an increase of 0.60% compared to the previous close of $164.57. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $219.51 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $160.07.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) has a 20-day trading average at $173.18 and the current price is -24.58% off the 52-week high compared with 3.43% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $188.70 and its 200-day simple moving average is $191.54. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 2.08%, which increases to 2.23% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 30.32 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $192.67, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 14.07% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on April 17, 2024 when TD Cowen reiterated the stock to “Hold” and issued a price target of between $193 and $181. Barclays downgraded the stock to “Equal Weight” from Overweight on April 01, 2024 at a price target of $215-$200. UBS upgraded its price target at $234.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) stock is up 2.19% over the week and -14.89% over the past month. Its price is -17.11% year-to-date and -5.36% over the past year.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 14.07 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 11.89% and return on equity of 16.53%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 26.25 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 19.63. The beta has a value of 1.16. Price to book ratio is 4.10 and price to sales ratio is 1.36.
