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Marten Transport, Ltd. (MRTN)

NASDAQ / Industrials / Trucking

Share price

12.89 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

1.05B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Feb 27, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
16, FY2009 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

2.3% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

61.38x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Dividend yield

1.9% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 671.1M USDFY2016 Net income: 33.5M USDFY2017 Revenue: 698.1M USDFY2017 Net income: 90.3M USDFY2018 Revenue: 787.6M USDFY2018 Net income: 55.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 843.3M USDFY2019 Net income: 61.1M USDFY2020 Revenue: 874.4M USDFY2020 Net income: 69.5M USDFY2021 Revenue: 973.6M USDFY2021 Net income: 85.4M USDFY2022 Revenue: 1.26B USDFY2022 Net income: 110.4M USDFY2023 Revenue: 1.13B USDFY2023 Net income: 70.4M USDFY2024 Revenue: 963.7M USDFY2024 Net income: 26.9M USDFY2025 Revenue: 883.7M USDFY2025 Net income: 17.4M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 61.38x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Industrials sector (412 companies), 61.38x sits at the 87th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.04x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 2.3% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Industrials sector (643 companies), 2.3% sits at the 43rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -15.6% to 15.8%.

Is it safe

Current ratio was 1.86 in FY2025, in the band labelled "Adequate" (1.50 to 2.00), on lines anchored on Graham's defensive-investor criteria.

Today, against the Industrials sector (673 companies), 1.86 sits at the 53rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.20 to 2.86.

Year by year against peers
Whether Marten Transport, Ltd.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Industrials sector, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Marten Transport, Ltd. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Marten Transport, Ltd.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Marten Transport, Ltd.)
What could explain it
What in Marten Transport, Ltd.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (2 readings drawn from the statement lines Marten Transport, Ltd. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Marten Transport, Ltd., and where in its filings. (1 question for Marten Transport, Ltd.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Marten Transport, Ltd.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (6 of sixteen figures read for Marten Transport, Ltd.)

These are MRTN’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, accession 0001437749-26-005971.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Marten Transport, Ltd: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Return on equity2.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Return on capital employed, pre-tax2.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Return on assets1.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Gross margin
Why n/a

Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Operating margin2.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Net margin2.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
MRTN 2.0%
CVLG 0.6%ULH -6.4%HTLD -6.5%
-6.5%2.0%
Net margin: MRTN against the 3 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Marten Transport, Ltd: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Current ratio1.86 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Quick ratio1.86 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Interest coverage
Why n/a

No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Altman Z-score5.62 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Total assets 949.8MTotal liabilities 182.1MShareholders' equity 767.6MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Marten Transport, Ltd owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971).

Marten Transport, Ltd: balance sheet position
Total assets949.8M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026
Total liabilities182.1M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026
Shareholders' equity767.6M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026
Cash43.3M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio1.86
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Interest cover: FY2025: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Marten Transport, Ltd: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings61.38x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
P/E on trailing twelve months80.56x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.37x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Price to sales1.19x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Diluted earnings per share0.21 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Graham number6.67 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value MRTN on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Marten Transport, Ltd today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Marten Transport, Ltd: valuation
Share price12.89 USD
Market capitalisation1.05B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number6.67 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20250.21 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 8.20x, median 21.29x, high 101.56x, latest 80.56x. 2,523 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Marten Transport, Ltd

  1. Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. (CVLG)Market cap 781.9M USD
  2. Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc. (ULH)Market cap 441.9M USD
  3. Heartland Express, Inc. (HTLD)Market cap 860.7M USD

Same industry (Trucking) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Marten Transport, Ltd: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Free cash flow
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no free cash flow we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Free cash flow margin
Why n/a

No free cash flow, and no operating cash flow and capital expenditure pair, is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Dividend yield1.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Payout ratio112.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
FY2016 Net income: 33.5M USDFY2017 Net income: 90.3M USDFY2018 Net income: 55.0M USDFY2019 Net income: 61.1M USDFY2020 Net income: 69.5M USDFY2021 Net income: 85.4M USDFY2022 Net income: 110.4M USDFY2023 Net income: 70.4M USDFY2024 Net income: 26.9M USDFY2025 Net income: 17.4M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Marten Transport, Ltd.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
61.38xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.37xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports neither free cash flow nor the operating cash flow and capital spending it is built from.
n/aFY2025Feb 27, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
1.9%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Feb 27, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
1.86FY2025Feb 27, 2026
1.19xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
5.62FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-3.01FY2025Feb 27, 2026
4/9FY2025Feb 27, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Marten Transport, Ltd filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Marten Transport, Ltd: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025883.7M22.9M17.4M0.21n/a2.6%2.3%10-K, Feb 27, 20260001437749-26-005971
FY2024963.7M33.2M26.9M0.33n/a3.5%3.5%10-K, Feb 28, 20250001437749-25-005570
FY20231.13B90.1M70.4M0.86n/a8.0%9.3%10-K, Feb 28, 20240001437749-24-005794
FY20221.26B143.3M110.4M1.35n/a11.3%15.7%10-K, Feb 28, 20230001437749-23-004832
FY2021973.6M111.7M85.4M1.02n/a11.5%13.1%10-K, Feb 28, 20220001437749-22-004503
FY2020874.4M93.2M69.5M0.84n/a10.7%11.2%10-K, Mar 1, 20210001437749-21-004453
FY2019843.3M76.5M61.1M0.74n/a9.1%10.2%10-K, Feb 28, 20200001437749-20-003828
FY2018787.6M70.3M55.0M0.67n/a8.9%9.6%10-K, Mar 1, 20190001437749-19-003693
FY2017698.1M56.9M90.3M1.10n/a8.2%17.2%10-K, Mar 9, 20180001437749-18-004257
FY2016671.1M58.3M33.5M0.41n/a8.7%7.7%10-K, Mar 15, 20170001437749-17-004526
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 3.1%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -7.0%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -7.1%
  • Free cash flow: Fewer than two filed years carry free cash flow.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Marten Transport, Ltd: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-3.01 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Piotroski F-score4/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2026, 0001437749-26-005971
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta0.77 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 22 not met, 7 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Owner earnings yield
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(11)
  • Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: No interest expense is filed for this year, so coverage is not computed.
  • Free Cash Flow Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Capex To Ocf: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, EV/EBIT, Return on Invested Capital. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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