ArcBest (ARCB) Stock Price, News & Analysis

13 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for ArcBest in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 3 hold ratings and 9 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" ARCB shares.
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13 analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for ArcBest's shares. Their ARCB share price targets range from $110.00 to $205.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $151.54 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.1% from the stock's current price.
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ArcBest's stock was trading at $120.21 at the beginning of 2024. Since then, ARCB stock has increased by 24.7% and is now trading at $149.95.
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ArcBest saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,420,000 shares, an increase of 7.6% from the March 15th total of 1,320,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 294,700 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 4.8 days. Currently, 6.2% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, April 30th 2024.
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ArcBest will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, April 30th at 9:30 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 800-770-2030 with passcode "6865438".

ArcBest Co. (NASDAQ:ARCB) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, February, 6th. The transportation company reported $2.47 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.22 by $0.25. The transportation company had revenue of $1.09 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.09 billion. ArcBest had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.91% and a net margin of 4.41%. The company's revenue was down 6.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $2.45 EPS.

ArcBest declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, February 2nd. Investors of record on Friday, February 16th will be given a dividend of $0.12 per share on Friday, March 1st. This represents a $0.48 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 0.32%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 15th.
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ArcBest (NASDAQ:ARCB) pays an annual dividend of $0.48 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.32%. The dividend payout ratio is 6.07%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, ARCB will have a dividend payout ratio of 3.81% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of ArcBest (NASDAQ:ARCB) stock in their portfolio include SPDR S&P Transportation ETF (XTN), Invesco Dorsey Wright Industrials Momentum ETF (PRN), Invesco S&P SmallCap Industrials ETF (PSCI), Euclidean Fundamental Value ETF (ECML), Nuveen Small Cap Select ETF (NSCS), ProShares Supply Chain Logistics ETF (SUPL), Invesco S&P SmallCap 600 Pure Growth ETF (RZG) and AlphaMark Actively Managed Small Cap ETF (SMCP).

137 employees have rated ArcBest Chief Executive Officer Judy R. McReynolds on Glassdoor.com. Judy R. McReynolds has an approval rating of 85% among the company's employees. 77.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at ArcBest to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other ArcBest investors own include YRC Worldwide (YRCW), Intel (INTC), Energy Transfer (ET), Pfizer (PFE), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Boeing (BA), American Airlines Group (AAL), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Southwest Airlines (LUV) and Valero Energy (VLO).

ArcBest's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Portman Square Capital LLP (0.00%) and Contravisory Investment Management Inc. (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Craig E Philip, Daniel E Loe, David R Cobb, Dennis L Anderson II, Erin K Gattis, James A Ingram, Janice E Stipp, John Matthew Beasley, Judy R Mcreynolds, Kathleen D Mcelligott, Lawrence Joseph Ellison, Michael E Newcity, Michael P Hogan, Michael R Johns, Seth Runser, Stephen E Gorman, Steven Spinner and Timothy D Thorne.
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