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Marten Transport Ltd. MRTN

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$883.7M
▼ 8.3% YoY
$17.4M
▼ 35.2% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Marten Transport, Ltd. transports food and other consumer packaged goods that require a temperature-controlled or insulated environment, along with dry freight, across the United States and into and out of Mexico and Canada. In 2025, it generated $883.7 million in operating revenue. As of December 31, 2025, it had 3,502 employees. It has four reporting segments: Truckload, Dedicated, Brokerage, and Intermodal, the last of which was sold effective September 30, 2025. Organized under Wisconsin law in 1970, it is a successor to a sole proprietorship founded by Roger R. Marten in 1946, and it reincorporated under Delaware law in 1988.

Written from the business description in MARTEN TRANSPORT, LTD.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 883.7M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 0.9 · Net income 0.0
0.5B1.0B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
−11.2%
+0.2%
+2.9%
+3.6%
−45.9%
−24.2%
−6.9%
−0.8%
−46.2%
−24.2%
+0.0%
−17.6%
−30.1%
−17.9%
+2.0%
+23.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +0.2% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
2 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 2.6% · Net 2.0%
5%10%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 2.3%
5%10%15%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 2 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 19.6M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 19.6 · Net buybacks —
20M40MDividendsNet buybacks201020122014201620182020202220242025

USD 19.6M in dividends — 112% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 949.8M
EquityUSD 767.6M
CashUSD 43.3M
Current ratio1.86×

Equity funds 81% of total assets.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.91.01.11.31.00.90.80.80.70.70.70.70.70.60.60.50.5
Operating income $B0.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.10.10.20.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $0.210.330.861.351.020.840.740.671.650.610.640.890.900.820.730.900.74
Dividend / sh $0.240.240.240.240.660.630.510.070.080.060.060.100.080.560.050.04·
Payout %1127328186475691051091196974·
ROE %2.33.59.616.313.411.410.410.018.87.7·8.38.88.47.96.7·
Shares out B0.080.080.080.080.080.080.080.050.050.050.030.030.030.030.020.02·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 65 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 11 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityTrucking (No Local)
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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