Universal Logistics Holdings Inc. Common Stock (ULH)

FairStock Score: 27/100 — RISKY

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AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

I look for businesses that earn good returns on capital, carry manageable debt, and sell below intrinsic value. Universal Logistics fails the first two tests today, though there are flickers of a turnaround. In fiscal Q2 2026, the quarter ended 2026-07-04, revenue was $379.3M and net income was $26.2M, or $0.99 per diluted share. That is a real improvement after fiscal Q1 2026 lost $3.5M and fiscal Q3 2025 lost $74.8M. The latest full year, FY2025, still showed a net loss of $99.9M on $1.6B of revenue, versus FY2024 net income of $129.9M on $1.8B. So the Lynch category, TURNAROUND, fits: a loss in the latest year after earlier profits. The business is trucking, intermodal and contract logistics — competitive, asset-heavy, and generally lacking a wide moat. FairStock's ROCE of 1.15% is thin, and D/E of 1.49 plus an Altman Z-score of 0.96 signal balance-sheet risk. On the positive side, trailing free cash flow is $36.7M, an 8.0% FCF yield, and the Piotroski F-score is 9/9. At the 2026-10-13 close of $17.41, FairStock's P/B is 0.82, the P/E is negative at -5.02, EV/EBITDA is 20.40, and its FairStock Score is 27/100. A sub-book price and cash generation are interesting, but negative earnings, a full-year revenue decline from FY2024 to FY2025, and high leverage mean this is a speculative turnaround, not a classic bargain.

In plain English: Universal Logistics Holdings provides transportation and logistics services, including trucking, intermodal, and contract logistics. The business looks weak right now: it lost money in its latest full year after being profitable in earlier years, revenue declined from the prior year, and it carries a lot of debt. The stock price looks cheap compared with its assets and cash flow, but the losses and debt make that cheapness uncertain.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

Sources (SEC EDGAR): fiscal Q2 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-07-04) · fiscal Q1 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-04-04) · fiscal Q3 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-09-27) · fiscal Q2 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-06-28) · FY2025 10-K (period ended 2025-12-31) · FY2024 10-K (period ended 2024-12-31) · FY2023 10-K (period ended 2023-12-31)

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