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Top Trucking Excluding Local Stocks in USA

Five U.S.-listed trucking excluding local names, read through one evidence stack: market path, official filing history, profitability, readiness, Prism attention and industry context.

Snapshot: 28 August 2026Not investment adviceRanked by Prism readiness
Readiness leaderODFL Dallas · 40
Strongest available pathArcBest · +108.5%
Widest latest marginODFL Dallas · 18.6%
Companies compared5 · U.S.-listed
01 · Readiness ranking

Five companies, one comparable score

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Readiness #1ODFL · Nasdaq

ODFL Dallas

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Trucking Excluding Local

Founded 1934Wilmington$41.19B market cap
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40Cautious
Snapshot price$198.6as of page date
Monthly-close return+38.6%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$5.50BOLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC.
Net margin18.6%FY2025
P/E snapshot38.2xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention6.7%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+4.6%
$0$2.1B$4.2B$6.3BFY2021: $5.256BFY2022: $6.260BFY2023: $5.866BFY2024: $5.815BFY2025: $5.496B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 1.1%
52-week position58% through range
$126.0$252.0
News mentions508
Community mentions0partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents0
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal53/100
Management stability90/100
Market position9/100
Capital-event signal24/100
Innovation pulse8/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 0 M&A involvements, 8 asset-acquisition events and 0 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 4 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #2ARCB · Nasdaq

ArcBest

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Trucking Excluding Local

Founded 1923Fort Smith$3.05B market cap
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37Cautious
Snapshot price$136.5as of page date
Monthly-close return+108.5%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$4.01BARCBEST CORP /DE/
Net margin1.5%FY2025
P/E snapshot195.1xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention25.3%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+0.8%
$0$1.8B$3.5B$5.3BFY2021: $3.980BFY2022: $5.324BFY2023: $4.427BFY2024: $4.179BFY2025: $4.010B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 0.2%
52-week position66% through range
$59.43$176.7
News mentions1.9K
Community mentions48partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents2
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal50/100
Management stability90/100
Market position22/100
Capital-event signal5/100
Innovation pulse3/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 14 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 8 M&A involvements, 16 asset-acquisition events and 0 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 4 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 1 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #3KNX · U.S. exchange

Knight-Swift

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Trucking Excluding Local

Founded 1989Phoenix, Arizona$10.94B market cap
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36Cautious
Snapshot price$67.24as of page date
Monthly-close return+32.7%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$7.47BKnight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.
Net margin0.9%FY2025
P/E snapshot249.0xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention16.4%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
+24.5%
$0$2.5B$5.0B$7.5BFY2021: $5.998BFY2022: $7.429BFY2023: $7.142BFY2024: $7.410BFY2025: $7.470B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR 5.6%
52-week position65% through range
$38.63$82.86
News mentions1.2K
Community mentions48partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents0
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal58/100
Management stability90/100
Market position12/100
Capital-event signal0/100
Innovation pulse0/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 9 M&A involvements, 0 asset-acquisition events and 1 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #4LSTR · U.S. exchange

Landstar

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Trucking Excluding Local

Founded 1988Jacksonville, Florida$6.11B market cap
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32Cautious
Snapshot price$180.0as of page date
Monthly-close return+8.2%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$4.74BLANDSTAR SYSTEM INC
Net margin2.4%FY2025
P/E snapshot46.8xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention13.0%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
-27.4%
$0$2.5B$5.0B$7.4BFY2021: $6.538BFY2022: $7.437BFY2023: $5.303BFY2024: $4.819BFY2025: $4.744B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR -7.7%
52-week position56% through range
$119.3$228.5
News mentions987
Community mentions0partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents9
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal45/100
Management stability90/100
Market position3/100
Capital-event signal5/100
Innovation pulse0/100
Management signal

No leadership-churn flag in the model; 0 key-person events recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 0 M&A involvements, 1 asset-acquisition events and 0 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 0 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 0 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

Readiness #5JBHT · Nasdaq

J.B. Hunt Transport

A U.S.-listed issuer classified by the SEC in Trucking Excluding Local

Founded 1961Arkansas City$24.51B market cap
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30Cautious
Snapshot price$261.0as of page date
Monthly-close return+48.5%five-year window
FY2025 revenue$12.00BHUNT J B TRANSPORT SERVICES INC
Net margin5.0%FY2025
P/E snapshot37.2xone ratio, not a verdict
Prism attention38.6%share across these five
Filing track recordRevenue, USD billions
-1.4%
$0$4.9B$9.9B$14.8BFY2021: $12.168BFY2022: $14.814BFY2023: $12.830BFY2024: $12.087BFY2025: $11.999B20212022202320242025
FY2021–FY2025 · 5 filing periods · TOTAL REVENUE · Normalized revenue metric from the in-house filings extraction · CAGR -0.3%
52-week position77% through range
$130.1$299.8
News mentions2.9K
Community mentions35partial coverage
U.S.-scope patents0
Prism Insights

What sits behind the readiness signal

Observed risk 0/100higher means more observed risk
Earnings signal46/100
Management stability55/100
Market position24/100
Capital-event signal5/100
Innovation pulse3/100
Management signal

Leadership churn is flagged elevated; 1 key-person events were recorded in the latest 360-day window.

Market activity

Available history contains 15 M&A involvements, 12 asset-acquisition events and 10 contract events.

Innovation activity

Prism records 3 lifetime product-launch events, 0 in the latest 360 days, and 1 company announcements in that window.

Recent risk watch

No lawsuit or regulatory event is recorded in the latest 360-day window and no layoff event in the latest 180-day window. This is not legal clearance.

Prism model components and available company-event evidence; scores are research signals, not recommendations. Event totals describe available coverage and may not be exhaustive.

02 · Side-by-side

The comparisons that change the picture

Every bar preserves its own meaning. Price return, revenue scale, profitability and attention are deliberately not blended into one recommendation.

Available monthly-close return

Dated window printed on each company card; not a forecast.

ArcBest
+108.5%
J.B. Hunt Transport
+48.5%
ODFL Dallas
+38.6%
Knight-Swift
+32.7%
Landstar
+8.2%

Latest revenue

USD billions, official filing scope shown on each company card.

J.B. Hunt Transport
$12.00B
Knight-Swift
$7.47B
ODFL Dallas
$5.50B
Landstar
$4.74B
ArcBest
$4.01B

Latest profit margin

Company-card labels distinguish continuing-operations and net-income scope.

ODFL Dallas
18.6%
J.B. Hunt Transport
5.0%
Landstar
2.4%
ArcBest
1.5%
Knight-Swift
0.9%

Prism news attention

Normalized share across these five names; attention is not quality.

J.B. Hunt Transport
38.6%
ArcBest
25.3%
Knight-Swift
16.4%
Landstar
13.0%
ODFL Dallas
6.7%
03 · Prism readout

What the signals say—and what they do not

The headline share is normalized trucking excluding local news attention across these five names. Partial community coverage and U.S.-scope patent records are displayed separately and are not blended into it.

Scale + attention

J.B. Hunt Transport leads the conversation

It holds 38.6% of measured trucking excluding local news attention and also carries the basket's largest revenue base at $12.00B.

Price path

ArcBest leads the available price paths

Its monthly-close return is +108.5% for the five-year window. At the other end, Landstar is +8.2% for its five-year window. Windows printed on each card must be compared carefully; price history is not a forecast.

Profitability

ODFL Dallas has the widest latest margin

Its FY2025 net margin is 18.6%. Its revenue history in this snapshot spans only the periods printed on its card, so longer histories are not treated as equivalent.

Price vs operating signals

J.B. Hunt Transport shows why one ratio is not a verdict

It has the basket's lowest snapshot P/E at 37.2x while its five-year window price return is +48.5%. Valuation, price path and readiness answer different questions.

04 · Research areas

Deeper Prism readout where coverage is dense

Shown only for companies with more than 800 available Prism news records. Counts describe the available research corpus, not company quality.

Areas of research · ARCB

ArcBest

1,923available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Earnings & financial performance
185
Price action & investor response
89
Leadership & governance
41
Capital allocation & transactions
12
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
2

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+10.7%301 latest 12m vs 272 prior 12m
2024-01: 9 mentions2024-02: 37 mentions2024-03: 32 mentions2024-04: 25 mentions2024-05: 17 mentions2024-06: 23 mentions2024-07: 23 mentions2024-08: 21 mentions2024-09: 15 mentions2024-10: 27 mentions2024-11: 19 mentions2024-12: 4 mentions2025-01: 31 mentions2025-02: 27 mentions2025-03: 21 mentions2025-04: 27 mentions2025-05: 32 mentions2025-06: 25 mentions2025-07: 37 mentions2025-08: 17 mentions2025-09: 22 mentions2025-10: 20 mentions2025-11: 27 mentions2025-12: 17 mentions2026-01: 32 mentions2026-02: 36 mentions2026-03: 32 mentions2026-04: 34 mentions2026-05: 23 mentions2026-06: 4 mentions2024-012026-06

Machine-classified coverage tone

73.0% positive-8.5 pp vs preceding four quarters
24Q3
24Q4
25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
26Q1
26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

stock performance 34freight budgeting 26freight cost analysis 25earnings report 25quarterly results 25share price 20annual earnings 20stock price 19

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2014-04-30–2026-06-12 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06
Areas of research · KNX

Knight-Swift

1,245available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
135
Earnings & financial performance
85
Capital allocation & transactions
17
Leadership & governance
17
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
15

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+39.8%316 latest 12m vs 226 prior 12m
2024-01: 21 mentions2024-02: 17 mentions2024-03: 5 mentions2024-04: 27 mentions2024-05: 13 mentions2024-06: 9 mentions2024-07: 29 mentions2024-08: 13 mentions2024-09: 3 mentions2024-10: 21 mentions2024-11: 12 mentions2024-12: 2 mentions2025-01: 29 mentions2025-02: 28 mentions2025-03: 18 mentions2025-04: 41 mentions2025-05: 17 mentions2025-06: 13 mentions2025-07: 17 mentions2025-08: 18 mentions2025-09: 24 mentions2025-10: 31 mentions2025-11: 11 mentions2025-12: 11 mentions2026-01: 36 mentions2026-02: 28 mentions2026-03: 12 mentions2026-04: 85 mentions2026-05: 38 mentions2026-06: 5 mentions2024-012026-06

Machine-classified coverage tone

74.5% positive-3.3 pp vs preceding four quarters
24Q3
24Q4
25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
26Q1
26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

stock price 43truck space utilization 41freight budgeting 35cargo stacking 32freight cube optimization 31cargo load planning 30freight cost analysis 30stock movement 28

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-05-10–2026-06-19 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06
Areas of research · LSTR

Landstar

987available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Earnings & financial performance
126
Price action & investor response
108
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
16
Leadership & governance
12
Capital allocation & transactions
11

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+50.3%236 latest 12m vs 157 prior 12m
2024-01: 11 mentions2024-02: 6 mentions2024-03: 9 mentions2024-04: 11 mentions2024-05: 2 mentions2024-06: 4 mentions2024-07: 10 mentions2024-08: 5 mentions2024-09: 4 mentions2024-10: 5 mentions2024-11: 12 mentions2024-12: 7 mentions2025-01: 17 mentions2025-02: 27 mentions2025-03: 15 mentions2025-04: 14 mentions2025-05: 29 mentions2025-06: 12 mentions2025-07: 19 mentions2025-08: 9 mentions2025-09: 9 mentions2025-10: 16 mentions2025-11: 14 mentions2025-12: 7 mentions2026-01: 29 mentions2026-02: 41 mentions2026-03: 13 mentions2026-04: 43 mentions2026-05: 30 mentions2026-06: 6 mentions2024-012026-06

Machine-classified coverage tone

71.0% positive+9.9 pp vs preceding four quarters
24Q3
24Q4
25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
26Q1
26Q2

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

earnings report 23freight budgeting 23stock performance 22stock price 19freight cost analysis 19share price 17cargo compliance 16cargo security rules 15

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-27–2026-06-18 · trend and themes shown through 2026-06
Areas of research · JBHT

J.B. Hunt Transport

2,934available Prism news records

Prism top themes

Price action & investor response
276
Macro demand & rates
231
Earnings & financial performance
173
Capital allocation & transactions
27
Legal, arbitration & regulatory
26

Mapped subcategory tag occurrences; one article may contribute more than one tag. Since 2024-01-01.

News-volume growth

+58.9%491 latest 12m vs 309 prior 12m
2024-02: 24 mentions2024-03: 28 mentions2024-04: 43 mentions2024-05: 37 mentions2024-06: 7 mentions2024-07: 30 mentions2024-08: 9 mentions2024-09: 10 mentions2024-10: 29 mentions2024-11: 15 mentions2024-12: 8 mentions2025-01: 49 mentions2025-02: 22 mentions2025-03: 28 mentions2025-04: 83 mentions2025-05: 14 mentions2025-06: 23 mentions2025-07: 19 mentions2025-08: 33 mentions2025-09: 21 mentions2025-10: 67 mentions2025-11: 16 mentions2025-12: 23 mentions2026-01: 64 mentions2026-02: 36 mentions2026-03: 21 mentions2026-04: 156 mentions2026-05: 38 mentions2026-06: 15 mentions2026-07: 1 mentions2024-022026-07

Machine-classified coverage tone

80.0% positive+1.7 pp vs preceding four quarters
24Q4
25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
26Q1
26Q2
26Q3

Tone of available coverage, not business performance or an investment outlook.

Frequent keywords

earnings report 54stock price 54economic slowdown 48stock performance 47stock movement 34annual earnings 33freight budgeting 30share price 29

Keyword tag occurrences in available Prism news records.

Coverage: 2010-01-04–2026-07-15 · trend and themes shown through 2026-07
05 · Community discussion

Common topics where conversation clears the gate

Shown only above 25 entity-matched mentions. Coverage is partial and topic counts exclude identified namesake noise.

ARCB

ArcBest

48 mentions
Stock and valuation
21
Products, pricing and logistics
12
Workplace and hiring
7

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 48 records remained after filtering.

KNX

Knight-Swift

48 mentions
Stock and valuation
18
Products, pricing and logistics
11
Workplace and hiring
4

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 48 records remained after filtering.

JBHT

J.B. Hunt Transport

35 mentions
Stock and valuation
18
Products, pricing and logistics
3
Workplace and hiring
2

Partial entity-matched community coverage; namesake noise is excluded before topic aggregation. 35 records remained after filtering.

06 · Company event log

Common news types and recent highlights

Event patterns and selected recent headlines come from available Prism company-event records since 2023. Obvious forecast, holdings, duplicate and retrospective noise is filtered.

ODFL

ODFL Dallas

through 2026-04-30
Earnings releases 43Asset acquisitions 7Company announcements 5Leadership changes 2
  1. Earnings releases

    Its operating income declined 6.1% to $317 million.

  2. Company announcements

    The company is targeting capex of approximately $265 million in 2026.

  3. Leadership changes

    Leo H. Suggs has announced his decision to retire from the Board of Directors of Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., effective at the end of his current term.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

ARCB

ArcBest

through 2026-04-28
Earnings releases 42Leadership changes 30Asset acquisitions 8Company announcements 3Board updates 1
  1. Earnings releases

    ArcBest reported first-quarter revenue of $998.8 million, up 3.3% from the prior-year period.

  2. Board updates

    Following their retirement, along with the retirement of Craig Philip on Jan. 28, 2026, the ArcBest board will have ten directors.

  3. Leadership changes

    Conrado assumes the role following the board retirement of Steve Spinner, as previously announced.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

KNX

Knight-Swift

through 2025-10-21
Earnings releases 4M&A 4Company announcements 2Leadership changes 2Business contracts 1
  1. M&A

    Knight-Swift announced it will merge its LTL Midwest Motor Express and DHE Transportation with its AAA Cooper Transportation brand.

  2. Earnings releases

    Earnings Knight-Swift beat estimated earnings by 9.0%, reporting an EPS of $0.36 versus an estimate of $0.33.

  3. Company announcements

    The carrier’s post-market announcement April 16 is intended to reset expectations ahead of the release of earnings for the first quarter on April 22.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

LSTR

Landstar

through 2025-07-30
Earnings releases 6Leadership changes 1Regulatory 1
  1. Earnings releases

    Landstar System Inc.'s revenue and earnings declined from the prior year during the second quarter of 2025, the company reported July 29.

  2. Regulatory

    However, this outlook changed drastically after the company uncovered a supply chain fraud incident during the final fiscal week of the quarter.

  3. Leadership changes

    Mr. Beacom has agreed to serve in this new capacity through the end of 2025, following which he will transition to the role of Special Advisor to the CEO before his anticipated retirement in the first quarter of 2026.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

JBHT

J.B. Hunt Transport

through 2026-04-17
Earnings releases 47Leadership changes 26Company announcements 13Business contracts 5Asset acquisitions 4
  1. Earnings releases

    The carrier reported intermodal Q1 operating income of $114.5 million. Revenues for the quarter totaled $1.5 billion, up 2% YoY, per the release.

  2. Company announcements

    J.B. Hunt Transport Services CEO Shelley Simpson described a ‘meaningfully different’ freight environment while reporting first‑quarter results April 15.

  3. Leadership changes

    Brad Delco, senior vice president of finance, has been promoted to chief financial officer and executive vice president of finance at J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell.

Prism company-event records; exact duplicates and evident forecast, holdings and retrospective noise are excluded.

07 · Industry landscape

Trucking Excluding Local Industry in USA

A bottom-of-page sector lens combining Prism's exact U.S. market-growth extraction with tightly matched U.S.-primary trucking excluding local news. It adds context to the stock basket without turning industry signals into a recommendation.

Prism market forecast extraction

freight trucking market

9 sources90.6% extraction confidence
2022 extracted base$2.20T–$2.73T
2027 extracted forecast$1.11T
Implied source CAGR5.1%
global traderetailincrease in global trade

Multi-source card returned by Prism's /special_extraction market-growth service. Extracted geography mix: Global, United States, China. This is a dated market benchmark, not a forecast for the five-stock basket.

Prism news insights

U.S. Trucking Excluding Local news pulse

126,691available Prism news records
Latest 12m volume+22.9%56034 vs 45586 records
Positive classified tone60.3%+5.9 pp vs prior four quarters
2024-01: 4,840 mentions2024-02: 3,620 mentions2024-03: 3,830 mentions2024-04: 5,383 mentions2024-05: 3,937 mentions2024-06: 3,461 mentions2024-07: 3,535 mentions2024-08: 3,300 mentions2024-09: 3,128 mentions2024-10: 4,059 mentions2024-11: 3,787 mentions2024-12: 3,513 mentions2025-01: 4,269 mentions2025-02: 4,575 mentions2025-03: 4,233 mentions2025-04: 5,157 mentions2025-05: 3,935 mentions2025-06: 2,095 mentions2025-07: 4,194 mentions2025-08: 21,432 mentions2025-09: 4,107 mentions2025-10: 2,895 mentions2025-11: 2,620 mentions2025-12: 2,606 mentions2026-01: 1,530 mentions2026-02: 3,440 mentions2026-03: 4,036 mentions2026-04: 8,633 mentions2026-05: 540 mentions2026-06: 1 mentions2024-012026-06
24Q4
25Q1
25Q2
25Q3
25Q4
26Q1
26Q2
26Q3

Available U.S.-primary Prism records matching excluding, local, trucking, freight. Metadata counts can overlap; coverage volume and tone are not measures of industry output.

Recurring Prism themes

municipal government meetings and decisions
26,576
local budgets and tax changes
22,380
local school district updates and policies
19,684
neighborhood zoning and development plans
17,373
land use and urban planning proposals
16,678
education system changes and school board decisions
16,462

Metadata occurrences; one record can contribute more than one theme.

Frequent industry keywords

city council meeting 3,530local seafood sourcing 3,412zoning hearings 2,292school closures 2,202zoning changes 2,157shrimp aquaculture 1,832superintendent announcements 1,832local fuel trends 1,824

Counts cover the matched industry corpus, not the broader company-news totals above.

Curated signal map

Opportunity and caution, side by side

Evidence prompts—not probabilities.

Opportunity · market driver

global trade

9 forecast sources

A recurring driver in the extracted market evidence provides a measurable research thread for the sector.

Prism /special_extraction market-growth card
Opportunity · demand

municipal government meetings and decisions

26,576 matched theme records

The largest current Prism news theme shows where sector attention and reported activity are concentrating.

Prism U.S. news metadata
Opportunity · innovation

Innovation and product activity

3,233 matched news records

Technology, product and R&D metadata provide an auditable view of the sector's innovation conversation.

Unique news records matching the curated innovation rule
Caution · market restraint

comparatively slower

3,372 macro/risk records

The extracted restraint and the measured macro-news pulse belong in the downside research frame.

Prism market-growth restraint plus U.S. news metadata
Caution · news pulse

Coverage growth can reverse

+22.9% news volume

The latest 12 months contain 56,034 matched records versus 45,586 in the previous window.

Available Prism coverage through 2026-06-21
Caution · sentiment

Classified tone is not demand

60.3% positive · +5.9pp

Machine-classified news tone is useful context, but it is not revenue, output or a return forecast.

Eight-quarter Prism sentiment series

Opportunity and caution cards are curated research prompts grounded in the counts shown; they are not probabilities, recommendations or forecasts. News coverage runs 2024-01-01–2026-06-21; the latest quarter may be partial.

Explore the broader U.S. industrial landscape →
08 · Scope and sources

How to read this snapshot

Basket and ranking

Five currently eligible U.S.-listed issuers classified under SEC SIC 4213 (Trucking Excluding Local). The builder rechecks price, filing and Prism evidence before assembling the basket. This is a focused research comparison, not a complete sector index.

Companies are ordered by the Fliar BI Prism readiness score used by the Prism Finance USA source pack. The score is a research signal, not a recommendation.

Evidence used

  • Official annual filingsFY revenue history and latest profitability
  • U.S. exchange market snapshotDated price, 52-week range, P/E, market capitalisation and monthly-close return
  • Fliar BI PrismReadiness, company and industry news, community context and U.S.-scope patent records
  • Prism market-growth extractionDated third-party Trucking Excluding Local Industry in USA market benchmark with source-count, geography and confidence context
Important: Research and educational information only. Not investment advice, a recommendation, or a live-price service. Market figures are dated as of 28 August 2026.
09 · Final derived analysis

Conclusions, comparisons, anomalies, explanations and decisions

A final evidence-linked synthesis of the metrics already displayed above. Every named company opens its actual Companies Radar profile.

Conclusions
Comparisons
Anomalies

J.B. Hunt Transport has the widest attention-readiness rank gap

It ranks #1 by measured news attention (38.6%) and #5 by Prism readiness. The gap is a review flag, not evidence that either measure is wrong.

J.B. Hunt Transport shows a price-operating divergence to inspect

Its displayed filing-revenue change is -1.4% while its available monthly-close return is +48.5%. The signs differ, but the two measures cover different windows and do not establish causality.

Explanations

Attention measures coverage volume, not quality

J.B. Hunt Transport's 38.6% share says it appears most often in the matched Prism corpus. It does not score whether that coverage is favourable or whether the company is investable.

Different windows explain why signals can disagree

Revenue comes from the printed filing periods, price paths use the dated monthly-close windows, and Prism signals use their stated event windows. No causal attribution is made across them.

Research decisions

Verify the readiness leader in Companies Radar

Open ODFL Dallas's company profile and inspect the underlying management, market-activity, innovation and risk evidence before relying on the 40/100 score.

Method boundary: These are deterministic comparisons of the displayed snapshot fields. They flag relationships for further research, do not establish causality and are not investment recommendations.
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