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Saia SAIA Net margin

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$806.2M+2.4%
Operating income$66.8M-4.8%
Net income$49.9M+0.1%
EPS (diluted)$1.860.0%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$39.2M+137%
Total debt$262.6M-37.8%
Total equity$2.6B+11.3%
Total assets$3.6B+5.9%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$139.6M+28.0%
CapEx$66.1M-67.4%
Free cash flow$73.5M+178%

Valuation

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Market cap$11.58B+0.7%
Enterprise value$11.8B-1.2%
P/E45.4×+9.6×
P/S3.6×0.0×

Profitability

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Operating margin10.7%-2.7pp
FCF margin6%+4.0pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity10.2%-4.4pp
Debt / equity0.1×-0.1×
Current ratio1.5×+0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Saia’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Saia’s 10-Q, filed April 30, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Saia's net margin?
Saia (SAIA) reported net margin of 7.8% in Q1 2026.
How has Saia's net margin changed year-over-year?
Saia's net margin decreased by 20.8% year-over-year, from 9.9% to 7.8%.
What is the long-term trend for Saia's net margin?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Saia's net margin has grown at a 0.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 7.6% to 7.9%.
What does net margin mean?
The share of every sales dollar that becomes bottom-line profit.
How do you interpret net margin?
Higher is better, but net margin mixes operating performance with financing and tax effects and one-off items — read it alongside operating margin to separate the operating story from the rest.
How does net margin compare across companies?
Comparable across peers but sensitive to leverage and tax structure; two operationally identical firms can show different net margins purely from financing.