Werner Enterprises, Inc. (WERN) Stock Analysis
Industrials · Trucking
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.96: Quality below floor (2.0 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum.
Werner Enterprises is one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers with a 7,100-truck fleet across Dedicated (4,850) and One-Way Truckload (2,250) fleets, plus a non-asset Werner Logistics segment; TTS generated 69% of 2025 revenues. Dollar General is the largest customer at 11%... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.96: Quality below floor (2.0 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Score 4.7/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 5/8 gates (clean insider activity, news events none recent, earnings proximity 46d clear, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on weak momentum and favorable risk/reward ratio. Suitability: aggressive.
Recent developments
updated 2026-06-13Recent Developments — Werner Enterprises, Inc.
Latest news
- NEWS Amazon Supply Chain Services Announces U.S. Expansion Of Less-Than-Truckload Freight To Any Type Of Destination, Includi — benzinga Jun 10, 2026 neutral
- NEWS Wells Fargo Maintains Equal-Weight on Werner Enterprises, Raises Price Target to $46 — benzinga Jun 5, 2026 positive
- NEWS Susquehanna Maintains Neutral on Werner Enterprises, Raises Price Target to $47 — benzinga Jun 2, 2026 positive
- NEWS Top 2 Industrials Stocks That Could Sink Your Portfolio This Quarter — benzinga May 21, 2026 negative
- NEWS Dole Posts Downbeat Q1 Earnings, Joins Ocular Therapeutix And Other Big Stocks Moving Lower In Monday's Pre-Market Sessi — benzinga May 11, 2026 neutral
Generated 2026-06-15T18:11:47Z.
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Concentration Risks(10-K Item 1A)
- LOWCustomerDollar General11%10-K Item 1: 'Our largest customer, Dollar General, accounted for 11% of our total revenues in 2025.'
- MEDIUMCustomerlargest 5 customers38%10-K Item 1: 'our largest 5, 10, 25 and 50 customers comprised 38%, 50%, 68% and 79% of our revenues, respectively.'
Material Events(8-K, last 90d)
- 2026-02-18Item 5.02LOWCompensation Committee approved 2026 base salaries and equity grants (RS and PS awards) for NEOs including CEO Derek Leathers ($980K base, 66,572 RS, 74,137 PS). Routine annual compensatory arrangement; no departures.SEC filing →
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Rating Breakdown
2 floor-breakers
Unprofitable operations — net margin -0.3%. Quality floor flags this regardless of sector context.static
Momentum below the gate floor. Component breakdown shows what dragged the score down.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $43.96: Quality below floor (2.0 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.7/10. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Negative price momentum. Chart setup: No clear chart pattern; technical signals are mixed. Prior stop was $41.08. Score 4.7/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $44.36 (+0.9% upside). Prior stop was $41.08. Stop-loss: $41.08.
Target reached (-23.8% upside); Quality below floor (2.0 < 4.0); Value-trap signals (2/5): Margin compression (op margin 4.7%), Material insider selling (5 sells, 0.42% of cap).
Werner Enterprises, Inc. trades at a P/E of N/A (forward 22.2). TrendMatrix value score: 6.9/10. Verdict: Sell.
20 analysts cover WERN with a consensus score of 2.7/5. Average price target: $39.
What does Werner Enterprises, Inc. do?Werner Enterprises is one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers with a 7,100-truck fleet across Dedicated (4,850) and...
Werner Enterprises is one of the largest U.S. truckload carriers with a 7,100-truck fleet across Dedicated (4,850) and One-Way Truckload (2,250) fleets, plus a non-asset Werner Logistics segment; TTS generated 69% of 2025 revenues. Dollar General is the largest customer at 11% of revenues; the top 5 customers represent 38% of revenues, concentrated in retail and consumer products (66% of top-50 customer mix).