Covenant Logistics Group Inc
NYSE:CVLG

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Price: 22.04 USD Market Closed
Market Cap: 552.1m USD

Covenant Logistics Group Inc
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Covenant Logistics Group, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of freight and logistics services. The company is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee and currently employs 4,500 full-time employees. The firm's segments include Expedited, Dedicated, Managed Freight business and Warehousing. The Expedited business operates primarily provides truckload services to customers with high service freight and delivery standards. The Dedicated business provides customers with committed truckload capacity over contracted periods. The Managed Freight business includes brokerage services and transportation management services (TMS). The Brokerage services provide logistics capacity by outsourcing the carriage of customers' freight to third parties. The Warehousing segment provides day-to-day warehouse management services to customers. The firm also provides shuttle and switching services related to shuttling containers and trailers in or around freight yards and to/from warehouses.

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Last Earnings Call
Fiscal Period
Q3 2025
Call Date
Oct 23, 2025
AI Summary
Q3 2025

Revenue Growth: Consolidated freight revenue rose 4% year-over-year to $268.9 million, with growth in Dedicated and Managed Freight partially offset by weakness elsewhere.

Margin Pressure: Adjusted operating income fell 22.5% to $15 million due to higher costs, claims expense, and margin compression, especially in Truckload.

Soft Q4 Outlook: Management expects an unseasonably soft fourth quarter, citing continued weak freight demand, government shutdown impacts, and higher claims accruals.

Capacity Exits: Executives highlighted accelerating capacity exits from the market, driven by stricter government regulations on drivers and electronic logs, with optimism for future rate improvement.

Pricing Momentum: The company is seeing early signs of rate increases—low single digits now, with some customers accepting 2.5% to 4% hikes after years of flat pricing.

Cost Actions: Management continued to control costs, adjusting headcount and overhead, but noted some one-time costs related to new fleet and geographic expansion.

Healthy Balance Sheet: Net indebtedness increased to $268.3 million mainly due to share repurchases and M&A payments, but leverage remains manageable at 2.1x.

Key Financials
Revenue
$268.9 million
Adjusted Operating Income
$15 million
Net Indebtedness
$268.3 million
Adjusted Leverage Ratio
2.1x
Debt-to-Capital Ratio
38.8%
Average Age of Tractors
23 months
Return on Average Invested Capital
6.9%
Expedited Adjusted Operating Ratio
93.6%
Expedited Average Fleet Size
861 average tractors
Dedicated Adjusted Operating Ratio
94.7%
Dedicated Fleet Size
136 tractors added YoY
Warehouse Adjusted Operating Ratio
92.1%
Minority Investment in TEL Pretax Net Income
$3.6 million
Earnings Call Recording
Other Earnings Calls

Management

Mr. David Ray Parker
Chairman of the Board & CEO
No Bio Available
Mr. M. Paul Bunn CPA
President
No Bio Available
Mr. James S. Grant III
Executive VP & CFO
No Bio Available
Mr. Joey B. Hogan
Executive VP & Director
No Bio Available
Mr. Samuel F. Hough
Executive Vice President of Expedited Operations
No Bio Available
Ms. Lynn Doster
Executive Vice President of Dedicated & Warehousing Operations
No Bio Available
Mr. Dustin Koehl
Chief Operating Officer
No Bio Available
Mr. Matisse Long
Chief Accounting Officer
No Bio Available
Mr. Eric Whitton
Senior Vice President of Technology
No Bio Available
Mr. Troy A. Robertson
Senior VP & General Counsel
No Bio Available

Contacts

Address
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga
400 Birmingham Hwy
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