J B Hunt Transport Services (JBHT) Receives Daily News Sentiment Score of - Markets Daily

J B Hunt Transport Services (JBHT) Receives Daily News Sentiment Score of 0.22. Posted by Tristan Rich on Aug 29th, 2018 // No Comments. Press coverage about J B Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ:JBHT) has been trending somewhat positive on Wednesday, Accern Sentiment reports. The research group ranks the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. J B Hunt Transport Services earned a media sentiment score of 0.22 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news articles about the transportation company an impact score of 46.4672591283675 out of 100, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the near future. Here are some of the media stories that may have effected Accern Sentiment Analysis’s rankings: Trading Watch: Checking in on Shares of JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NasdaqGS:JBHT) (vassarnews.com) JB Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (NasdaqGS:JBHT): A Look at the 5.00000 Margin Score (zeelandpress.com) J B Hunt Transport Services Target of Unusually High Options Trading (JBHT) (americanbankingnews.com) J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. to Participate in the 11th Annual Global Transportation and the 2018 Buckingham Industrials Conferences (finance.yahoo.com) Trade of the Day: J.B. Hunt Transport Services (JBHT) (investorplace.com) A number of equities research analysts have issued reports on the stock. BidaskClub raised shares of J B Hunt Transport Services from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 30th. BMO Capital Markets upped their price objective on shares of J B Hunt Transport Services from $127.00 to $130.00 and gave the stock a “market perform” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 20th. They noted that the move was a valuation call. Citigroup upped their price objective on shares of J B Hunt Transport Services from $122.00 to $133.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday, July 10th. Zacks Investment Research raised shares of J B Hunt Transport Services from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $137.00 price objective for the company in a research report on Tuesday, July 3rd. Finally, ValuEngine downgraded shares of J B Hunt Transport Services from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Thursday, July 5th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating and nine have issued a buy rating to the stock. J B Hunt Transport Services has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $129.74. J B Hunt Transport Services (NASDAQ:JBHT) last released its earnings results on Monday, July 16th. The transportation company reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $1.28 by $0.09. The firm had revenue of $2.14 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.05 billion. J B Hunt Transport Services had a net margin of 9.54% and a return on equity of 26.63%. The company’s revenue was up 23.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.88 EPS. equities analysts expect that J B Hunt Transport Services will post 5.42 EPS for the current fiscal year. The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, August 17th. Investors of record on Friday, August 3rd were paid a dividend of $0.24 per share. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.79%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, August 2nd. J B Hunt Transport Services’s payout ratio is currently 25.67%. In related news, EVP Bradley W. Hicks sold 500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $122.43, for a total transaction of $61,215.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 16,900 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,069,067. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, EVP Terrence D. Matthews sold 5,163 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, August 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $122.11, for a total transaction of $630,453.93. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 23,810 shares in the company, valued at $2,907,439.10. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders have sold a total of 38,018 shares of company stock worth $4,630,817 over the last 90 days. 4.20% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders. About J B Hunt Transport Services.