J.B. Hunt: Share Price Defies Earnings Gravity - Market Optimism or Pandemic Memory Bias?
For most companies, share prices follow short-term EPS (in other words, the Market doesn’t anticipate much—it just reflects what it sees “as of now”). It isn’t different for $JBHT — see how the share price follows expected EPS on the chart. However, the current market price appears to be fighting a substantial decline in earnings. Maybe it’s because trucking companies made a disproportional amount of money during the pandemic, biasing some investors regarding how much they are willing to pay for J.B. Hunt’s earnings.
