{"id":5728,"date":"2018-03-20T07:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2018-03-20T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:29:34","slug":"brokers-issue-forecasts-for-knight-swift-transportation-holdings-inc%e2%80%99s-fy2018-earnings-knx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/brokers-issue-forecasts-for-knight-swift-transportation-holdings-inc%e2%80%99s-fy2018-earnings-knx\/","title":{"rendered":"Brokers Issue Forecasts for Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc\u2019s FY2018 Earnings (KNX)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<form>\n<div>\n<div id=\"results_block\">Morgan Stanley started coverage on shares of Knight-Swift Transportation in a research note on Wednesday, December 13th. Knight Equity raised shares of Knight-Swift Transportation to a buy rating in a research note on Sunday, November 26th. Barclays raised shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from an underweight rating to an equal weight rating and lifted their price target for the stock from $47.00 to $50.00 in a research note on Thursday, February 1st. UBS Group lifted their price target on shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from $57.00 to $62.00 and gave the stock a buy rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 31st. Finally, Stephens lifted their price target on shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from $55.00 to $60.00 and gave the stock an overweight rating in a research note on Wednesday, January 31st. Knight-Swift Transportation has an average rating of Buy and an average target price of $49.60.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Knight-Swift Transportation has a 12-month low of $26.68 and a 12-month high of $51.94. Knight-Swift Transportation (NYSE:KNX) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 30th. The transportation company reported $0.52 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.39 by $0.13. Knight-Swift Transportation had a net margin of 12.58% and a return on equity of 5.92%. Knight-Swift Transportations payout ratio is currently 8.35%. bought a new stake in shares of Knight-Swift Transportation during the 4th quarter valued at about $231,000.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Grandeur Peak Global Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Knight-Swift Transportation by 119.3% during the 4th quarter. Grandeur Peak Global Advisors LLC now owns 591,570 shares of the transportation companys stock valued at $25,863,000 after purchasing an additional 321,850 shares during the period. Xact Kapitalforvaltning AB acquired a new position in Knight-Swift Transportation during the 4th quarter valued at about $1,284,000.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelincolnianonline.com\/\">https:\/\/www.thelincolnianonline.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley started coverage on shares of Knight-Swift Transportation in a research note on Wednesday, December 13th. Knight Equity raised shares of Knight-Swift Transportation to a buy rating in a research note on Sunday, November 26th. Barclays raised shares of Knight-Swift Transportation from an underweight rating to an equal weight rating and lifted their price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5732,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions\/5732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}