JBHTJ.B. Hunt
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -42% · now 23% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can JBHT take a bad year?
J.B. Hunt carries $1.14B of net debt at 0.68× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.68×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.07× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- 13.7×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 38%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.15B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $4.2M
- Net debt
- $1.14B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.67B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $956M
- Debt / equity
- 0.31×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.68×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −42%
- Below its 52-week high
- 23%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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