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JB Hunt Transport Services (JB Hunt Transport Services) Piotroski F-Score

: 5 (As of Today)
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The zones of discrimination were as such:

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

JB Hunt Transport Services has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

The historical rank and industry rank for JB Hunt Transport Services's Piotroski F-Score or its related term are showing as below:

JBHT' s Piotroski F-Score Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 4   Med: 6   Max: 8
Current: 5

During the past 13 years, the highest Piotroski F-Score of JB Hunt Transport Services was 8. The lowest was 4. And the median was 6.


JB Hunt Transport Services Piotroski F-Score Historical Data

The historical data trend for JB Hunt Transport Services's Piotroski F-Score 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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Array ( [0] => - [1] => - [2] => - [3] => - [4] => - [5] => 6.00 [6] => 6.00 [7] => 8.00 [8] => 8.00 [9] => 6.00 )
JB Hunt Transport Services Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Piotroski F-Score
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 6.00 6.00 8.00 8.00 6.00

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
Piotroski F-Score 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 6.00 5.00 6.00 6.00 5.00

Competitive Comparison

For the Integrated Freight & Logistics subindustry, JB Hunt Transport Services's Piotroski F-Score, along with its competitors' market caps and Piotroski F-Score 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 Piotroski F-Score Distribution

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, JB Hunt Transport Services's Piotroski F-Score distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where JB Hunt Transport Services's Piotroski F-Score falls into.


How is the Piotroski F-Score calculated?

* 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.

This Year (Mar24) TTM:Last Year (Mar23) TTM:
Net Income was 189.552 + 187.431 + 153.535 + 127.493 = $658 Mil.
Cash Flow from Operations was 609.669 + 432.322 + 215.006 + 466.467 = $1,723 Mil.
Revenue was 3132.623 + 3163.753 + 3303.7 + 2944.001 = $12,544 Mil.
Gross Profit was 554.343 + 533.693 + 556.957 + 498.607 = $2,144 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of this year (Mar23)
to the end of this year (Mar24) was
(7790.402 + 8247.732 + 8372.97 + 8538.26 + 8427.783) / 5 = $8275.4294 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of this year (Mar23) was $7,790 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $1,367 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $1,950 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1,544 Mil.
Net Income was 255.342 + 269.382 + 201.303 + 197.768 = $924 Mil.

Revenue was 3837.532 + 3838.257 + 3649.622 + 3229.588 = $14,555 Mil.
Gross Profit was 651.677 + 649.727 + 621.695 + 565.145 = $2,488 Mil.
Average Total Assets from the begining of last year (Mar22)
to the end of last year (Mar23) was
(7031.941 + 7252.562 + 7431.559 + 7786.582 + 7790.402) / 5 = $7458.6092 Mil.
Total Assets at the begining of last year (Mar22) was $7,032 Mil.
Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $992 Mil.
Total Current Assets was $1,989 Mil.
Total Current Liabilities was $1,704 Mil.

*Note: If the latest quarterly/semi-annual/annual total assets data is 0, then we will use previous quarterly/semi-annual/annual data for all the items in the balance sheet.

Profitability

Question 1. Return on Assets (ROA)

Net income before extraordinary items for the year divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

JB Hunt Transport Services's current Net Income (TTM) was 658. ==> Positive ==> Score 1.

Question 2. Cash Flow Return on Assets (CFROA)

Net cash flow from operating activities (operating cash flow) divided by Total Assets at the beginning of the year.

Score 1 if positive, 0 if negative.

JB Hunt Transport Services's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1,723. ==> Positive ==> Score 1.

Question 3. Change in Return on Assets

Compare this year's return on assets (1) to last year's return on assets.

Score 1 if it's higher, 0 if it's lower.

ROA (This Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar23)
=658.011/7790.402
=0.08446432

ROA (Last Year)=Net Income/Total Assets (Mar22)
=923.795/7031.941
=0.13137127

JB Hunt Transport Services's return on assets of this year was 0.08446432. JB Hunt Transport Services's return on assets of last year was 0.13137127. ==> Last year is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 4. Quality of Earnings (Accrual)

Compare Cash flow return on assets (2) to return on assets (1)

Score 1 if CFROA > ROA, 0 if CFROA <= ROA.

JB Hunt Transport Services's current Net Income (TTM) was 658. JB Hunt Transport Services's current Cash Flow from Operations (TTM) was 1,723. ==> 1,723 > 658 ==> CFROA > ROA ==> Score 1.

Funding

Question 5. Change in Gearing or Leverage

Compare this year's gearing (long-term debt divided by average total assets) to last year's gearing.

Score 0 if this year's gearing is higher, 1 otherwise.

Gearing (This Year: Mar24)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar23 to Mar24
=1366.506/8275.4294
=0.16512811

Gearing (Last Year: Mar23)=Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation/Average Total Assets from Mar22 to Mar23
=991.71/7458.6092
=0.13296179

JB Hunt Transport Services's gearing of this year was 0.16512811. JB Hunt Transport Services's gearing of last year was 0.13296179. ==> Last year is lower than this year ==> Score 0.

Question 6. Change in Working Capital (Liquidity)

Compare this year's current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) to last year's current ratio.

Score 1 if this year's current ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Current Ratio (This Year: Mar24)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=1949.56/1543.984
=1.26268148

Current Ratio (Last Year: Mar23)=Total Current Assets/Total Current Liabilities
=1988.927/1703.583
=1.16749639

JB Hunt Transport Services's current ratio of this year was 1.26268148. JB Hunt Transport Services's current ratio of last year was 1.16749639. ==> This year's current ratio is higher. ==> Score 1.

Question 7. Change in Shares in Issue

Compare the number of shares in issue this year, to the number in issue last year.

Score 0 if there is larger number of shares in issue this year, 1 otherwise.

JB Hunt Transport Services's number of shares in issue this year was 104.107. JB Hunt Transport Services's number of shares in issue last year was 104.729. ==> There is smaller number of shares in issue this year, or the same. ==> Score 1.

Efficiency

Question 8. Change in Gross Margin

Compare this year's gross margin (Gross Profit divided by sales) to last year's.

Score 1 if this year's gross margin is higher, 0 if it's lower.

Gross Margin (This Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=2143.6/12544.077
=0.17088543

Gross Margin (Last Year: TTM)=Gross Profit/Revenue
=2488.244/14554.999
=0.1709546

JB Hunt Transport Services's gross margin of this year was 0.17088543. JB Hunt Transport Services's gross margin of last year was 0.1709546. ==> Last year's gross margin is higher ==> Score 0.

Question 9. Change in asset turnover

Compare this year's asset turnover (total sales for the year divided by total assets at the beginning of the year) to last year's asset turnover ratio.

Score 1 if this year's asset turnover ratio is higher, 0 if it's lower

Asset Turnover (This Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of This Year (Mar23)
=12544.077/7790.402
=1.61019637

Asset Turnover (Last Year)=Revenue/Total Assets at the Beginning of Last Year (Mar22)
=14554.999/7031.941
=2.06984089

JB Hunt Transport Services's asset turnover of this year was 1.61019637. JB Hunt Transport Services's asset turnover of last year was 2.06984089. ==> Last year's asset turnover is higher ==> Score 0.

Evaluation

Piotroski F-Score= Que. 1+ Que. 2+ Que. 3+Que. 4+Que. 5+Que. 6+Que. 7+Que. 8+Que. 9
=1+1+0+1+0+1+1+0+0
=5

Good or high score = 7, 8, 9
Bad or low score = 0, 1, 2, 3

JB Hunt Transport Services has an F-score of 5 indicating the company's financial situation is typical for a stable company.

JB Hunt Transport Services  (NAS:JBHT) Piotroski F-Score Explanation

The developer of the system is Joseph D. Piotroski is relatively unknown accounting professor who shuns publicity and rarely gives interviews.

He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in accounting in 1989, received an M.B.A. from Indiana University in 1994. Five years later, in 1999, after earning a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Michigan, he became an associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago.

In 2000, he wrote a research paper called "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers" (pdf).

He wanted to see if he can develop a system (using a simple nine-point scoring system) that can increase the returns of a strategy of investing in low price to book (referred to in the paper as high book to market) value companies.

What he found was something that exceeded his most optimistic expectations.

Buying only those companies that scored highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 led to an average out-performance over the market of 13.4%.

Even more impressive were the results of a strategy of investing in the highest F-Score companies (8 or 9) and shorting companies with the lowest F-Score (0 or 1).

Over the same period from 1976 to 1996 (20 years) this strategy led to an average yearly return of 23%, substantially outperforming the average S&P 500 index return of 15.83% over the same period.


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

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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