Is the business good?
How good a business is JBHT?
J.B. Hunt earns 16% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
16%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.7 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 7.5%
Operating margin · Integrated Freight & Logistics median 6.1% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.63×
Cash conversion · 1.08× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −3.1%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 7.4% |
| FY2021 | 8.6% |
| FY2022 | 9.0% |
| FY2023 | 7.7% |
| FY2024 | 6.9% |
| FY2025 | 7.2% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.3%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $12.7B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.10B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $675M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 16%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Integrated Freight & Logistics
Ranks #7 of 10 by Smart Score