Ratings Marten Transport, Ltd.

Equities

MRTN

US5730751089

Market Closed - Nasdaq Other stock markets 21:30:00 03/05/2024 BST			5-day change	1st Jan Change
17.44 ^USD	+1.28%		+2.95%	-16.87%

04-19	Stephens Adjusts Marten Transport Price Target to $21 From $23, Maintains Overweight Rating	MT
04-18	Marten Transport Q1 Earnings, Revenue Decline, Miss Consensus Forecasts	MT

Summary

Overall, the company has poor fundamentals for a medium to long-term investment strategy.

Strengths

Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
The average target price set by analysts covering the stock is above current prices and offers a tremendous appreciation potential.
Analyst opinion has improved significantly over the past four months.
Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.
The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.

Weaknesses

As estimated by analysts, this group is among those businesses with the lowest growth prospects.
The company's currently anticipated earnings per share (EPS) growth for the next few years is a notable weakness.
The firm trades with high earnings multiples: 26.23 times its 2024 earnings per share.
The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
For the last twelve months, sales expectations have been significantly downgraded, which means that less important sales volumes are expected for the current fiscal year over the previous period.
The sales outlook for the group was lowered in the last twelve months. This change in forecast points out a decline in activity as well as pessimistic analyses of the company.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.
Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised downwards significantly.

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