NASDAQ NMS - GLOBAL MARKET · Road & Rail · CIK 0000878927
$188.33
+0.79% · delayed ~15 min
Last price from Oct 20, 2026
$39.28B market value
From OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC.'s FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 · read the filing
OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE moves freight by road and runs warehouses. It took in $5.50B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 19 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is led by profitability and debt, while growth remain weak.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by Overbey Cecil E. Jr., not under a pre-arranged plan.
$4.0M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
Generally healthy, with a few things to watch.
From OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC.'s FY2025 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2025
Long-term debt
$40.0M → $20.0M
Capital spending
$771.3M → $415.0M
Revenue
$5.81B → $5.50B
Operating income
$1.54B → $1.36B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Feb 24, 2026
Improved: -50.0%
$40.0M to $20.0MCritical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Changed: -46.2%
$771.3M to $415.0MCritical
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
How the latest move compares (quote delayed ~15 min), and what was published around it
ODFL rose 0.79% on the latest quote. The average Industrials company tracked here moved +0.36%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is in line with its sector and 1.8 points above the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 15% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 10 years it grew by about 26% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 19 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $1.02B last year.
No. Sales shrank 5.5% last year.
No — it holds more cash than debt, with $80.1M left over after paying off every borrowing. For every $1 it owes, it owns $4.72 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Whether the dividend is covered by what the business actually earns
It pays out 23 cents of every dollar of profit and keeps the rest, which leaves the payment comfortably covered. It paid out 17% of the cash its operations generated. It has paid in each of the last 9 years.
GoodNext payment expected around , projected from how regularly it has paid before rather than from a date the company has announced.
Figures from the FY2025 annual filing
Last year it earned $1.02B and generated $1.37B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202510-K · Feb 24, 2026Filing for FY2025 | FY202410-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 22, 2023Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Feb 22, 2023Filing for FY2021 | ChangeFY2025 vs FY2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $5.50B | $5.81B | $5.87B | $6.26B | $5.26B | −5.5% |
| Operating income | $1.36B | $1.54B | $1.64B | $1.84B | $1.39B | −11.8% |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 24.8% | 26.6% | 28.0% | 29.4% | 26.5% | −1.8 pts |
| Interest expense | $296.0K | $212.0K | $464.0K | $1.6M | $1.7M | +39.6% |
| Income before tax | $1.36B | $1.56B | $1.65B | $1.84B | $1.39B | −12.6% |
| Net income | $1.02B | $1.19B | $1.24B | $1.38B | $1.03B | −13.7% |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 18.6% | 20.4% | 21.1% | 22.0% | 19.7% | −1.8 pts |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $4.91 | $5.57 | $5.69 | $12.49 | $8.99 | −11.9% |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODFLOLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC. · this page | 7.3/10 |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Was granted or awarded shares — 545 shares
Holds 545 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 19,952 shares at $198.39 ($4.0M)
Holds 22,746 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Reported another event
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from ODFL's 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (period ending 2025-12-31, filed Feb 24, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 8 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 7.3 | 5/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 26, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 10.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 22, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 10.0 | 7/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2022 |
| FY2020 | 7.3 | 6/8 | 10-K, filed Feb 24, 2021 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
6 of 8 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's. One could not be evaluated and is excluded from the total rather than counted as a failure.
8.25
In the safe zone
For this model, above 2.6 is safe and below 1.1 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2025 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -5.5%
$5.81B to $5.50BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Deteriorated: -11.8%
$1.54B to $1.36BNotable
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -13.7%
$1.19B to $1.02BNotable
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
26.6% to 24.8%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −1.8 pts
20.4% to 18.6%Notable
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +7.6%
$888.0M to $955.1MNotable
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Deteriorated: -11.9%
$5.57 to $4.91Notable
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +10.5%
$108.7M to $120.1MNotable
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: -2.1%
213.0M to 208.6MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Changed: +5.4%
$223.6M to $235.6MNotable
Why it matters: Cash handed to shareholders. A rise can be a higher dividend or simply more shares, and a cut is a decision the company explains in its own filing — neither is rated here.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it.
Improved: turned negative
$150.0M to $0.00Critical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +1080.3%
$24.1M to $283.9MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +30.0%
$357.9M to $465.3MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +30.5%
$268.6M to $350.6MSignificant
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +4.5 pts
25.4% to 29.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +3.5 pts
19.1% to 22.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +32.5%
$1.28 to $1.69Significant
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +10.4%
$1.41B to $1.55BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: -1.5%
210.6M to 207.5MNotable
Why it matters: The company bought back stock, so each remaining holding owns slightly more of it. Worth checking it was not funded by borrowing.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 5, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +46.6%
$317.3M to $465.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +47.2%
$238.3M to $350.6MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +47.6%
$1.14 to $1.69Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: turned negative
$20.0M to $0.00Critical
Why it matters: Rising debt is not automatically bad — borrowing to build something that earns more than the interest is ordinary. It matters when it grows faster than the profit meant to service it.
Improved: +16.4%
$1.33B to $1.55BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +6.2 pts
23.8% to 29.9%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +4.7 pts
17.9% to 22.6%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 13% and 17%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 31 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 31 analysts publishing on this company, 6 say strong buy, 9 say buy, 15 say hold and 1 say strong sell. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 4.3% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 34.8x — a high multiple relative to the current trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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Filed notice to sell 19,952 shares ($4.0M) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Restricted Stock Vesting.
Estimated from how often this has happened before, not a confirmed date.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Quarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +10.4% · Operating margin +4.5 pts · Long-term debt turned negative — against Q2 FY2025
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Long-term debt -50.0% · Cash +196.4% · Free cash flow +25.2% — against Q1 FY2025
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Revenue -5.5% · Operating margin −1.8 pts · Long-term debt -50.0% — against FY2024
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Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
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Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Operating margin −1.7 pts · Long-term debt +62.5% · Cash -37.2% — against Q3 FY2024
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