Industrials / TruckingUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

12B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E36.9

P25 14.6P50 20.6P75 30.4

Trailing P/E47.2

P25 17.1P50 27.2P75 47.6

ROE10.2

P25 -16.4P50 5.9P75 16.4

ROIC8.9

P25 -10.3P50 5.1P75 12.2

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Indicator catalog

All SAIA market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Currency

USD

Showing 260 of 260 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001177702
Company name	Saia, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	78709Y105
Employees	14,500
Employees Change	-800%
Employees Change Percent	-5.23
Enterprise value	$12.2B
Exchange	NASDAQ
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Trucking
IPO Date	2002-09-11
Isin	US78709Y1055
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$12B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$450
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	224,340.48x
Sector	Industrials
Sic	4213
Symbol	SAIA
Website	https://www.saia.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.13%
EV Earnings	47.78x
EV Sales Forward	3.37x
EV/EBIT	36.23x
EV/EBITDA	20.72x
EV/FCF	62.61x
EV/Sales	3.75x
FCF yield	1.63%
Forward P/E	36.91x
P/B ratio	4.56x
P/E ratio	47.25x
P/S ratio	3.68x
PE Ratio10 Y	24.77x
PE Ratio3 Y	31.92x
PE Ratio5 Y	28.12x
PEG ratio	3.97x
PS Forward	3.31x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	10.34%
EBITDA Margin	18.08%
FCF margin	5.98%
Gross margin	23.62%
Gross Profit	$768.5M
Gross Profit Growth	-6.52%
Gross Profit Growth Q	1.93%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	0.79%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	12.14%
Net Income	$255.1M
Net Income Growth	-20.58%
Net Income Growth Q	0.12%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-10.35%
Net Income Growth5 Y	11.58%
Pretax Margin	10.36%
Profit Margin	7.84%
Profit Per Employee	$17,593
Profitable Years	16
ROA	6.07
Roa5y	11.18
ROCE	10.4
ROE	10.23
Roe5y	19.27
ROIC	8.92
Roic5y	18.76

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	32.43%
Cagr15y	27.95%
Cagr1y	73.09%
Cagr20y	17.46%
Cagr3y	15.35%
Cagr5y	12.93%
EPS Growth	-20.61
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-10.48
EPS Growth5 Y	11.44
FCF Growth3 Y	60.88%
FCF Growth5 Y	2.78%
OCF Growth	6.69%
OCF Growth Q	28.02%
OCF Growth10 Y	16.7%
OCF Growth3 Y	8.02%
OCF Growth5 Y	14.43%
Revenue Growth	0.34x
Revenue Growth Q	2.37x
Revenue Growth Quarters	2x
Revenue Growth Years	10x
Revenue Growth3 Y	5.23x
Revenue Growth5 Y	11.83x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.94
Assets	$3.6B
Cash	$39.2M
Current Assets	$499.4M
Current Liabilities	$328.5M
Debt	$261.9M
Debt EBITDA	$0.41
Debt Equity	$0.1
Debt FCF	$1.35
Equity	$2.6B
Interest Coverage	22.83
Liabilities	$937.4M
Long Term Assets	$3.1B
Long Term Liabilities	$608.9M
Net Cash	$-222.7M
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-1.86
Net Debt EBITDA	$0.38
Net Debt Equity	$0.08
Net Debt FCF	$1.14
Tangible Book Value	$2.6B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$98.15
WACC	15.68

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	1.52
Net Working Capital	$161.7M
Quick ratio	1.29
Working Capital	$170.9M
Working Capital Turnover	$20.8

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.04%
Dividend Yield	0%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	1,558.56%
1Y total return	73.02%
200-day SMA	337.3
3Y total return	53.48%
50-day SMA	387.5
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	83.67%
All Time High	628.3
All Time High Change	-28.41%
All Time High Date	2024-03-06
All Time Low	4.35
All Time Low Change	10,247.37%
All Time Low Date	2008-11-21
ATR	20.27
Beta	2.12
Beta1y	1.83
Beta2y	1.19
Ch YTD	37.76
High	453.1
High52	460.1
High52 Date	2026-05-07
High52ch	-2.23%
Low	443.9
Low52	248.4
Low52 Date	2025-06-05
Low52ch	81.1%
Ma50ch	16.06%
Price vs 200-day SMA	33.34%
RSI	60.48
RSI Monthly	57.99
RSI Weekly	64.44
Sharpe ratio	1.28x
Sortino ratio	2.21
Total Return	0.04%
Tr YTD	37.76
Tr15y	3,932.88%
Tr1m	19.75%
Tr1w	1.94%
Tr3m	8.27%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	20
Analyst Count Top	10
Analyst Price Target Top	$449
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$1.82
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	-2.15
Earnings Revenue Estimate	788,312,184x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	0.09x
Operating Income	$336.4M
Operating Income Growth	-23.36
Operating Income Growth Q	-4.79
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-10.31
Operating Income Growth5 Y	12.23
Operating margin	10.34
Price target	$422
Price Target Change	$-6.17
Price Target Change Top	$-0.24

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	26,495,128%
Float Percent	99.6%
Net Borrowing	-182,768,000
Shares Insiders	0.31%
Shares Institutions	110.83%
Shares Out	26,601,922
Shares Qo Q	0.04%
Shares Yo Y	-0.04%
Short Float	4.45%
Short Ratio	2.36
Short Shares	4.43

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$177.3M
Average Volume	500,176.05x
Bv Per Share	98.73
CAPEX	$-430.9M
Ch10y	1,558.6
Ch15y	3,933
Ch1m	19.75
Ch1w	1.94
Ch1y	73.02
Ch20y	2,398.9
Ch3m	8.27
Ch3y	53.48
Ch5y	83.67
Ch6m	59.33
Change	0.19%
Change From Open	0
Close	448.9
Days Gap	0.19
Depreciation Amortization	251,720,000
Dollar Volume	95,383,238.6
Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$336.4M
EBITDA	$588.1M
EPS	$9.52
F Score	6
FCF	$194.7M
FCF EV Yield	1.6x
FCF Per Share	$7.32
Financing CF	-188,709,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,924
Graham Number	145.41908
Graham Upside	-67.67
Income Tax	$81.8M
Investing CF	-414,183,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-04-30
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Date	2013-06-14
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-24
Lynch Fair Value	$110
Lynch Upside	-75.5
Ma150	348.6
Ma150ch	29.03%
Ma20	431.7
Ma20ch	4.19%
Net CF	22,642,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-07-24
Open	449.8
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	61.47
P OCF Ratio	19.13
Position In Range	64.22
Ppne	3,010,785,000
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$20.35
Ptbv Ratio	4.58
Relative Volume	0.42x
Revenue	3,252,937,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.53x
Share Based Comp	17,397,000
Tax By Revenue	2.51x
Tax Rate	24.27%
Tr20y	2,398.89%
Tr6m	59.33%
Us State	Georgia
Volume	212,057
Z Score	7.52

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Next action

Research pending

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Income

Does SAIA pay a dividend?

Capital-return profile for this ticker.

Performance

SAIA stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns SAIA?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+110.8%

Float: +99.6% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.3%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

SAIA momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

60.5

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

+33.3%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

2.12

More volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

1.28

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

SAIA vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
BA	The Boeing Company	187.1B	95.1x	2.0x	-13.6%	+10.3%	+27.9%	बेचें
CAT	Caterpillar Inc.	413.4B	44.7x	5.8x	16.5%	+10.5%	+183.2%	बेचें
DE	Deere & Company	155.3B	32.4x	3.3x	6.0%	+4.8%	+23.3%	बेचें

Questions

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