SAIA — Saia, Inc.
Industrials · ETF XLI · as of 2026-09-21
Daily · EMA 10 / 20 / 50 · SMA 200 · VolPress: buy/sell split, 20-SMA, white dot = above avg · · E = earnings · RS vs SPY ⓘ · ● RS new high ⓘ
Saia, Inc.
NMS
Industrials · Trucking
Saia ranks among the 10 largest less-than-truckload carriers in the United States, with more than 210 facilities and a fleet of more than 7,500 tractors and 26,000 trailers. As a national LTL carrier, the firm offers time-definite and expedited options for shipments ranging between 100 and 10,000 pounds. Saia ranks among the top-tier providers in terms of profitability.
Price & today
$348.04
ATR(14) 13.30 (3.82%)
| Stock today | +1.70% |
| Sector ETF today | +0.14% |
| Residual (stock-specific) | +1.57% |
Sector correlation
| 20-day correlation with XLI | 0.59 |
| 60-day correlation with XLI | 0.30 |
| Status | normal |
Decoupling fires when 60d corr − 20d corr > 0.20: stock used to track its sector but the relationship has weakened recently.
Technicals
| 10 EMA | $347.08 |
| 20 EMA | $351.10 |
| 50 EMA | $370.05 |
| EMA stack | BEARISH |
| RSI(14) | 45.2 |
| 52-week high distance | -24.01% |
| 52-week low distance | +40.13% |
Signals
| Market F&G | 45.6 |
| Bull% | 12.2% |
| OVTLYR status | SELL (73d) |
| Sector rank | #60 |
| Next earnings | 2026-10-23 (BMO, 32d) |
MarketSmith metrics - our compute
RS Rating
39.8
ADR%
3.9
RMV (tight)
35.0
Ext (ATR>20EMA)
-0.2
Rel Vol
54.0%
U/D 50d
0.96
U/D 25d
1.12
Accum/Dist 25d
2 / 2
EPS YoY
+31.0%
LoD dist
91.0
Off 52w High
29.6%
Above 52w Low
39.6%
1W / 1M
-0.9 / -3.2
Avg $Vol 50d
167.6M
Mkt Cap (B)
9.3
Trend 8/8
no
Leads Group
YES
Sector XLI
+0.0% 1W
What do these abbreviations mean?
- RS Rating
- - IBD-style relative strength vs SPY (weighted 3/6/9/12-mo). 70+ = leaders pool, 80+ = strong.
- ADR%
- - average daily range over 20 days. 4%+ = the fast movers the playbook prefers (selection order, not a gate).
- RMV (tight)
- - Relative Measured Volatility, 15 bars, scaled 0-100. <15 = tight coiled base (green), <35 moderate, high = loose/expanding - not a base right now.
- Ext (ATR>20EMA)
- - how many ATRs price sits above its 20-EMA. ≤1 = in value (green), >2 = extended/chasing (red) - prefer a pullback.
- Rel Vol
- - latest volume vs the 50-day average. 100% = normal; 140%+ = breakout confirmation.
- U/D 50d / 25d
- - up-day vs down-day volume over the window. 1.1+ = net accumulation (institutions buying); under 0.9 on the 25d = net selling.
- Accum/Dist 25d
- - heavy-volume up days vs heavy-volume down days in the last 25 sessions (close moved 0.2%+ on above-average volume). The institutional-participation footprint; 5+ distribution days = O'Neil caution line.
- LoD dist
- - close distance above the day low in % of ATR (100 = one full ATR off the low). High = strong close.
- Off/Above 52w
- - trend-template legs: within 25% of the 52-week high, at least 25% above the 52-week low.
- Trend 8/8
- - all 8 Minervini Trend Template criteria pass. Discovery floor, NOT an entry signal - entries come from the VCP pivot.
- Base len (VCP)
- - weeks since the VCP base started on the latest scan. 10wk+ bases carry the edge; short stacked bases test below random.
Fundamentals & valuation - reference, not entry inputs
P/E (TTM)
39.8
Fwd P/E
24.6
PEG
2.6
Price/Book
4.1
Profit margin
7.8%
ROE
10.2%
Debt/Equity
10.0
Rev growth
+2.4%
Analyst target
$441 (+27%)
Analyst rating
BUY
Institutional %
110.5%
Insider %
0.2%
Float %
99.6%
Valuation and analyst figures are Yahoo company stats (weekly refresh, ~3,000 larger names - blanks are honest gaps); logo, employees, website and IPO date are Massive company reference. Momentum/VCP entries do not use valuation - this card is context so you do not have to leave the page.
Company data - context read, not entry inputs
Industry rank
133 / 146
Industry
Trucking
Float
26.5M
Float turnover 20d
1.4%
Avg $Vol 20d / 50d
127.7M / 167.6M
Days to cover
2.4
Short % float
4.4%
Institutional %
110.5%
Weinstein stage
4
Float, short interest and institutional % come from Yahoo company stats, refreshed weekly for ~3,000 larger names - a blank means Yahoo does not publish the figure for this stock, not that it is zero. Dollar volume and float turnover are computed from our own price bars; industry rank from our rotation data; stage from the weekly chart.
Quarterly EPS - earnings acceleration
A dash in %Chg is deliberate: the year-ago figure was a loss, so a growth % would be meaningless. A dash in Sales means we have no revenue figure for that quarter - read it as a gap in our data, not as zero revenue.
| Quarter | EPS ($) | %Chg YoY | Sales ($M) | %Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct-24 | 3.46 | -6% | 842.1 | +9% |
| Feb-25 | 2.84 | -15% | 789.0 | +5% |
| Apr-25 | 1.86 | -45% | 787.6 | +4% |
| Jul-25 | 2.67 | -30% | 817.1 | -1% |
| Oct-25 | 2.81 | -19% | 839.6 | +0% |
| Feb-26 | 1.77 | -38% | 790.0 | +0% |
| Apr-26 | 1.86 | +0% | 806.2 | +2% |
| Jul-26 | 3.51 | +31% | 956.5 | +17% |
† = SEC carries this same fiscal quarter under a second period-end with a materially different figure (hover for it) - a restatement, merger recast or successor-period split; %Chg is blanked when the two are more than 15% apart. It fires only when the two period-ends DISAGREE, so it is a floor, not a guarantee that the rest of the column shares one basis · ‡ = the revenue concept changed from the previous quarter WITH A FIGURE (hover for both) - a blank row in between is skipped, as the eye does - a step at that row is a change of basis, not necessarily of business · EPS = Yahoo
eps_actual (the figure MarketSmith/Deepvue show) - whether a given quarter is GAAP or excludes a one-off follows the filing, so it can sit either side of another vendor's number; AAPL's Oct-24 row, the Sep-2024 fiscal quarter, is $0.97 here - GAAP, including the EU tax charge - where TradingView's year implies $1.64 · Sales ($M) = SEC EDGAR quarterly revenue (fiscal Q4 derived as FY minus 9-mo) · quarter = report month · %Chg blank = prior-year base under $0.05 (not meaningful).