J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT): Price and Financial Metrics

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J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) Company Bio

JB Hunt Transportation provides surface transportation and delivery services in the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico, which includes the transportation of freight, such as general merchandise, specialty consumer items, appliances, forest and paper products, food and beverages, building materials, soaps and cosmetics, automotive parts, agricultural products, electronics, and chemicals. The company was founded in 1961 and is based in Lowell, Arkansas.

JBHT Price Forecast Based on DCF Valuation

We started the process of determining a valid price forecast for Hunt J B Transport Services Inc with a discounted cash flow analysis -- the results of which can be found in the table below. To summarize, we found that Hunt J B Transport Services Inc ranked in the 51th percentile in terms of potential gain offered. Our DCF analysis suggests the stock is overvalued by about 5.5%. In terms of the factors that were most noteworthy in this DCF analysis for JBHT, they are:

• Interest coverage, a measure of earnings relative to interest payments, is 15 -- which is good for besting 81.87% of its peer stocks (US stocks in the Industrials sector with positive cash flow).
• The business' balance sheet suggests that 8% of the company's capital is sourced from debt; this is greater than merely 22.4% of the free cash flow producing stocks we're observing.
• JBHT's estimated cost of debt, based largely on its market capitalization and its interest coverage ratio, is 3%; for context, that number is higher than 39.03% of tickers in our DCF set.

For other companies in the Industrials that have a similar discounted cashflow valuation profile (and ensuing price forecasts) as JBHT, try PKOH, KNX, VOLT, MATX, and QUAD.