Upcoming Saia Earnings Announcement Draws Investor Attention Saia Inc. (NASDAQ:SAIA) is expected to release its first-quarter earnings soon, drawing investor attention amid recent downward revisions in analyst estimates. Wall Street forecasts earnings of $2.77 per share, marking an 18.1% decline from the same quarter last year. Revenue is projected to increase by 7.3% year-over-year to $810.08 million.
Over the past month, consensus EPS estimates have been revised down by 7.6%, reflecting a shift in analyst sentiment. These estimate changes are often used as signals to predict short-term stock movement.
Beyond the top and bottom lines, analysts have modeled key metrics to provide deeper insight into the company's performance. The operating ratio, a critical efficiency indicator in the transportation sector, is projected to rise to 87.6% from 84.4% a year earlier. A higher ratio suggests an increase in operating costs relative to revenue.
Analysts also expect Saia’s Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) revenue per hundredweight to drop to $24.75 from last year’s $26.51, signaling potential pricing pressure. Saia stock has declined 14.4% over the past month, underperforming the S&P 500’s 8.9% drop. The stock currently holds a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), suggesting performance in line with the broader market.
Technical Analysis
Saia’s share price has broken below a key support level at $360, continuing a bearish trend. The next support lies near $258. All major moving averages are above the current price and sloping downward—50-day at $447, 100-day at $458, and 200-day at $404—confirming the downward momentum.
SAIA trade ideas
SAIAPotential buy/long on breakout of consolidation.
Saia, Inc. provides trucking transportation to the retail, petrochemical, and manufacturing industries. The Company offers regional, interregional, and national less-than-truckload services, and selected truckload services throughout the United States.
Transportation leader $SAIA is near ATHSaia provides less-than-truckload, non-asset truckload, expedited and logistics services across the U.S. is ranked #1 in its industry by IBD
While the sector ETF AMEX:XTN is down, stocks like NASDAQ:SAIA , NYSE:XPO and NASDAQ:ODFL are all near new highs
The price is in its second base formation close of breaking out above $439.50
I'll leave a stop buy just above this point.
Breakout from Downtrend with strong fundamentalsSAIA is a trucking company that has a good fundamentals and the stock price is undervalued. Technically from the chart, it is breakout from downtrend line with strong earning report yesterday. This is a good sign that this stock is starting to move high. I have put an initial position to go long.
Please evaluate your own risk and do your own study first.
Pull Back FishingI guess one day everyone woke up and decided to start selling SAIA.
It is now below the lower band with DMA on 80 verses 20. This signals strong selling pressure. Eventually the last seller will sell though.
Series of bearish candles on way down with some bad top wicks/shooting stars scattered at the top.
No recommendation.
Saia, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a transportation company in North America. The company provides less-than-truckload services for shipments between 100 and 10,000 pounds; and other value-added services, including non-asset truckload, expedited, and logistics services. As of December 31, 2020, it operated 174 owned and leased facilities; and owned approximately 5,700 tractors and 17,400 trailers. The company was formerly known as SCS Transportation, Inc. and changed its name to Saia, Inc. in July 2006. Saia, Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Johns Creek, Georgia.
Saia - LongBullish on Saia
NEMF just announced they will be bankrupt soon, as SAIA is actively looking to build market share in their territory.
Saia's technical indicators are very bullish
9/10 day MA - Bullish
MACD - Bullish
I keep my speculation acct and investing acct separate. With Saia I will build a small position at $67.88