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How Forward Air Corporation stacks up
FWRD · against 962 other Industrials companies of similar size
Growth
58/ 100
Above the middle of the pack.
Ranked #358 of 963 · scores higher than 61% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the growth score86 peers with a growth score of 50–59, including FWRD · Click a bar to see the companies
Why growth scores 58?
Weighted metrics compared with all Industrials companies.A mix: stronger 3-year revenue growth, but weaker earnings per share growth and revenue growth than most Industrials peers.
- The loss per share widened. Earnings per share growth: — vs peer median 7.1%
- slower revenue growth over the last year: weaker than 67% of peers. Revenue growth: -0.1% vs peer median 4.4%
- faster revenue growth over three years: stronger than 93% of peers. 3-year revenue growth: 21.9% vs peer median 4.2%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = FWRD, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | FWRD | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growthHigher is better · 969 reported | -0.1% | 2.8% | 39% | 33% | |
| Earnings per share growthHigher is better · 657 reported | Not reported | 3.3% | — | — | 33% |
| 3-year revenue growthHigher is better · 958 reported | 21.9% | 3.4% | 93% | 33% |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Ranking by growth score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around FWRD| Rank | Company | Market cap | Growth | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.9B CNY (≈$682M) | 100 | 44 | |
| 1 | 6.6B NOK (≈$625M) | 100 | 62 | |
| 1 | 518M EUR (≈$570M) | 100 | 73 | |
| 1 | 727M USD | 100 | 66 | |
| 5 | 4.4B CNY (≈$611M) | 99 | 40 | |
| 358 | 80.1B JPY (≈$545M) | 58 | 63 | |
| 358 | 116.0B JPY (≈$789M) | 58 | 63 | |
| 358 | 154.7B JPY (≈$1.1B) | 58 | 68 | |
| 358 | 5.2B SEK (≈$523M) | 58 | 67 | |
| 358 | 622M USD | 58 | 22 | |
| 358 | 2.2B DKK (≈$332M) | 58 | 68 | |
| 358 | 1.1B USD | 58 | 73 | |
| 358 | 956M EUR (≈$1.1B) | 58 | 46 | |
| 373 | 5.5B HKD (≈$702M) | 57 | 59 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score