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Marten Transport Ltd is a temperature-sensitive truckload carrier in the United States. The company specializes in transporting and distributing food and other consumer packaged goods that require a temperature-controlled or insulated environment. It operates through four segments: Truckload, Dedicated, Intermodal, and Brokerage, generating the majority of its revenue from the Truckload segment. The Truckload segment offers a mix of regional short-haul and medium- to long-haul full-load transportation services.
Marten Transport Ltd. trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol MRTN.
As of March 9, 2026, MRTN stock price declined to $12.52 with 605,596 million shares trading.
MRTN has a beta of 0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MRTN has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MRTN has a market cap of $1.02 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.
Last quarter Marten Transport Ltd. reported $210 million in Revenue and $.05 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $4 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.
In the last 3 years, MRTN traded as high as $23.38 and as low as $9.35.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that MRTN belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, AVUV, VTI, IWM, VXF.
MRTN has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -11.6% while the SPY ETF gained +19.7%. However, in the short term, MRTN had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +11.9% vs -0.8% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, MRTN shares have been beat by the market, returning -9.9% compared to an SPY return of -1.6%.
MRTN support price is $12.19 and resistance is $12.87 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MRTN shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
