Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) Issues Q2 2025 Earnings Guidance

Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) updated its second quarter 2025 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.460-0.500 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 0.500. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Knight-Swift Transportation also updated its Q1 2025 guidance to 0.290-0.330 EPS.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities analysts have recently issued reports on KNX shares. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price objective on Knight-Swift Transportation from $45.00 to $51.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Thursday, December 12th. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price target on Knight-Swift Transportation from $47.00 to $48.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, October 25th. Morgan Stanley dropped their price objective on shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from $72.00 to $70.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, October 24th. Susquehanna upgraded shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from a “neutral” rating to a “positive” rating and boosted their target price for the company from $48.00 to $67.00 in a research note on Friday, January 3rd. Finally, Citigroup lowered shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from a “neutral” rating to a “sell” rating and set a $56.00 price target on the stock. in a research report on Tuesday, November 12th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating, nine have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Knight-Swift Transportation currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $59.38.

Knight-Swift Transportation Stock Performance

NYSE KNX opened at $54.84 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a current ratio of 1.01 and a quick ratio of 1.01. The stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $55.24 and its 200-day simple moving average is $53.35. The company has a market cap of $8.88 billion, a PE ratio of 238.42, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.03 and a beta of 0.98. Knight-Swift Transportation has a 1-year low of $45.55 and a 1-year high of $60.99.

Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 22nd. The transportation company reported $0.36 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.33 by $0.03. Knight-Swift Transportation had a return on equity of 1.81% and a net margin of 0.50%. As a group, equities research analysts anticipate that Knight-Swift Transportation will post 1.04 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Knight-Swift Transportation Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Monday, December 23rd. Investors of record on Friday, December 6th were paid a dividend of $0.16 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, December 6th. This represents a $0.64 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.17%. Knight-Swift Transportation’s dividend payout ratio is presently 278.27%.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Chairman Kevin P. Knight sold 29,779 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, November 13th. The shares were sold at an average price of $57.19, for a total transaction of $1,703,061.01. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this hyperlink. Also, Director Ploeg David Vander sold 500 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, November 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $57.10, for a total transaction of $28,550.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 30,729 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,754,625.90. The trade was a 1.60 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Corporate insiders own 3.00% of the company’s stock.

About Knight-Swift Transportation

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc, together with its subsidiaries, provides freight transportation services in the United States and Mexico. The company operates through four segments: Truckload, Less-than-truckload (LTL), Logistics, and Intermodal. The Truckload segment provides transportation services, which include irregular route and dedicated, refrigerated, expedited, flatbed, and cross-border operations.