First look: Schneider Q4 earnings

TL carrier’s Q4 EPS, 2025 guidance largely in line

Schneider will host a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter results at 10:30 a.m. EST on Thursday. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

Schneider National’s fourth quarter came in as expected, as did its initial earnings outlook for 2025. During the recent quarter, the company saw year-over-year earnings improvement across all segments for the first time since the 2022 second quarter.

Fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 20 cents was in line with the consensus estimate and 4 cents higher y/y. The number excluded costs from prior acquisitions, including the Dec. 2 purchase of dedicated carrier Cowan Systems.

Schneider (NYSE: SNDR) issued full-year 2025 adjusted EPS guidance of 90 cents to $1.20, bracketing the consensus estimate of $1.10. At the midpoint of the range, the guide was approximately 5% light of expectations.

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“In the second quarter of 2024, signs of seasonality returned to the freight market and were even more evident in the fourth quarter,” said Schneider President and CEO Mark Rourke in a Thursday news release. “The year ended positively as carriers continued to exit the market and demand aligned more closely to seasonal expectations.”

Full-year 2024 adjusted EPS of 69 cents came in at nearly half of management’s initial expectation ($1.23 midpoint) as a second-half recovery never fully materialized.

Shares of SNDR were off 1.4% at 9:51 a.m. EST on Thursday compared to the S&P 500, which was up 0.7%.

Schneider will host a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter results at 10:30 a.m. EST on Thursday.

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Based in Richmond, VA, Todd is the finance editor at FreightWaves. Prior to joining FreightWaves, he covered the TLs, LTLs, railroads and brokers for RBC Capital Markets and BB&T Capital Markets. Todd began his career in banking and finance before moving over to transportation equity research where he provided stock recommendations for publicly traded transportation companies.