Marten Transport, Ltd. (MRTN)

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $671 million in fiscal 2016 to $884 million in fiscal 2025, up 3.1% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 30% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Marten Transport, Ltd.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.2% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 15% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Marten Transport, Ltd. earned about 2 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 19 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.1% over the year (the filed statements).

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s standing among 13 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $884 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 19% by size; a net margin of 2% ranks in the top 35%; revenue growth of -11.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 19% (its annual reports).

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Marten, Randolph L (Chairman of the Board and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-02-23, 9 months (bottom 19% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 11.1 years (top 4%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 35%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $43 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 4.6% of its assets as net cash, top 12% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10.6% of revenue (top 19%) (its annual report).

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -11.2% a year over the last three filed years against 3.1% over all 10, slowing (bottom 27% of its family); the newest year grew -8.3% (bottom 27%) (its annual reports). Marten Transport, Ltd. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Truckload at $422 million, Dedicated at $278 million, Brokerage at $150 million, and 1 more. 1 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 48% of revenue (its annual report).

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Marten Transport, Ltd.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $884 million in fiscal 2025 came in 5% above the $842 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $17 million against a prior three-year average of $69 million (top 50%); a net margin of 2% against 5.9% before (top 42%) (its annual reports).