FWRD

Forward Air Corporation
NasdaqGSUSDEQUITY Industrials DELAYED
Last price
18.11
▲ 0.32 (1.80%)
MARKET ·

Price

Open
17.95
Prev close
17.79
Day high
18.52
Day low
17.91
Volume
384.71K
Market cap
$611.77M
P/E (TTM)
52W range
7.86 – 32.00

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-4.48% -3.1%
1M
+16.99% +13.3%
3M
+116.89% +113.8%
6M
-34.90% -46.0%
YTD
-27.56% -39.8%
1Y
-34.83% -54.8%
3Y
-71.84% -146.0%
5Y

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$611.77M
Enterprise value$2.58B
Revenue (TTM)$2.52B
Gross profit$541.14M
EBITDA$281.77M
Net income$-284.12M
EPS (TTM)$-8.91
Free cash flow$86.97M
Total cash$139.45M
Total debt$2.11B
Book value / share$-3.42
Shares outstanding33.78M
Float27.31M
Short % of float10.28%
Dividend yield
Beta (5Y)1.36

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E
Forward P/E42.12
PEG ratio0.65
Price / sales
Price / book
EV / revenue1.02
EV / EBITDA9.14
Gross margin21.49%
Operating margin6.34%
Profit margin-11.37%
Return on equity-735.72%
Return on assets3.06%
Debt / equity
Current ratio1.32
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

Annual · as reported
Last 4 fiscal years
Line item2025202420232022
Total revenue$2.50B$2.47B$1.37B$1.97B
Cost of revenue$0$0$0$0
Gross profit$0$0$0$0
R&D
SG&A
Operating income
Pre-tax income
Tax provision$0$0$0$0
Net income-$141.72M-$816.97M$167.35M$193.19M
EBIT$0$0$0$0

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 -0.151.53 +1,096.1%
Mar 2026 -0.37-0.20 +45.7%
Dec 2025 -0.27-0.19 +30.0%
Sep 2025 -0.120.07 +160.7%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 0.10 3 $677.45M +7.2%
Next quarter -0.22 3 $648.58M +2.8%
Current year -1.13 3 $2.57B +3.1%
Next year 0.43 2 $2.61B +1.3%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$28.00
High target$29.00
Low target$27.00
Implied upside54.61%
Analyst count2
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy0 / 2
Hold3
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders1.86%
Held by institutions97.58%
Institutions holding258
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
0
Net selling
Buy transactions
0
0 shares
Sell transactions
0
Net transactions
0
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
Not enough filings
Insider-held shares
627.99K
Total on file

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Jun 18, 26
GORJANC CHRISTINE MARIE
Director
STOCK 9.54K $0 Direct
Jun 18, 26
BOYLES DALE W
Director
STOCK 9.54K $0 Direct
Jun 18, 26
SVINDLAND PAUL C
Director
STOCK 9.54K $0 Direct
Mar 16, 26
STEWART SHAWN
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 18.69K $0 Direct
Mar 16, 26
PIERSON JAMIE G
Chief Financial Officer
STOCK 5.73K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
FAUGHT JAMES R.
Officer
STOCK 2.34K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
STEWART SHAWN
Chief Executive Officer
STOCK 43.20K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
LORRAIN JEROME JEAN-PIERRE
Officer and Director
STOCK 10.80K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
BRANDT ERIC FREDERICK
Officer
STOCK 9.00K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
HERREN JESSICA L
Officer
STOCK 4.95K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
OSBORNE TIMOTHY R
Officer
STOCK 5.85K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
PIERSON JAMIE G
Chief Financial Officer
STOCK 20.70K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
HANCE MICHAEL L
Officer
STOCK 10.80K $0 Direct
Feb 19, 26
SMITH DOUGLAS JAMES
Officer
STOCK 5.85K $0 Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ANDERSON CHARLES LEONARD
Director Stock Award(Grant)
CARLOCK RONALD CRAIG
Director 23.51K Stock Award(Grant)
CETUS CAPITAL VI LP
Beneficial Owner of more than 10% of a Class of Security 3.12M Sale
EDWARDS ROBERT LEON JR
Director Stock Award(Grant)
HANCE MICHAEL L
Officer 96.22K Stock Award(Grant)
HODGE MICHAEL B
Director 93.85K Stock Award(Grant)
OSBORNE TIMOTHY R
Officer 26.42K Stock Award(Grant)
PIERSON JAMIE G
Chief Financial Officer 91.88K Stock Award(Grant)
STEWART SHAWN
Chief Executive Officer 148.17K Stock Award(Grant)
TOMASELLO JOSEPH MICHAEL
Chief Technology Officer 30.81K Stock Award(Grant)

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
18.89
-4.15% from price
SMA 20
17.19
+5.35% from price
SMA 50
15.11
+19.88% from price
SMA 100
15.18
+19.30% from price
SMA 200
19.60
-7.62% from price
EMA 12
18.16
-0.28% from price
EMA 26
16.98
+6.63% from price
EMA 50
15.95
+13.53% from price
RSI (14)
57.3
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
1.18
Hist -0.09
ATR (14)
1.20
6.63% of price
Realised vol 30D
89.7%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
21.41
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
12.97
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
15.11 vs 19.60
Trend bias
Below 200
-7.62%

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
1.66
More volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.25
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
89.7%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
12.9%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-73.8%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-93.3%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
1.20
6.63% of price
Beta (reported)
1.36
5Y monthly, from filing

Unusual options activity

Account required
Flagged1
Total notional$385.00K
Call notional$385.00K
Put notional$0
Tiltcall-weighted
Likely opening1 of 1
SideStrikeExpiryVolumeOpen int. Vol / OINotionalIV PrintScore
CALL 12.50 Dec 18, 26
117d
500 42 11.9× $385.00K 97% at ask
82
How this is calculated, and what it cannot see

A contract is flagged when today's volume approaches or exceeds its open interest, the position is worth at least $40,000, and at least 150 contracts changed hands. Open interest is what was outstanding at yesterday's close, so volume above it means the flow cannot all be closing — something is being opened.

The score weights four things: volume against open interest, dollar notional, volume against the rest of that chain, and where the last print sat inside the bid/ask spread.

What it cannot see. Volume here is a daily total, so ten small orders and one large one are indistinguishable — this is not block or sweep detection, which needs exchange-level time and sales. The print column compares the last trade to the current quote, which is a proxy for who was the aggressor, not a tagged flag. Quotes are delayed. A single large trade can be a hedge, a roll, or one leg of a spread, and none of those mean what a naked directional bet would mean.

Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
0.65
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.17
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
17.50
-3.4% from spot
ATM implied vol
67.4%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
-1.0%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
97
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
63
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
17.50
1.61K contracts
Heaviest put OI
17.50
508 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Options chain

Account required
ExpirySpot 18.11
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
000.000.000.000.00000.0%
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

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