---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000793074-25-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WERN"
cik: "0000793074"
company_name: "WERNER ENTERPRISES INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:26:52.064643+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Werner Q1 2025: operating loss $5.8M, diluted EPS -$0.16, revenue down 7% YoY

## Summary
- Total revenues $712.1M, down 7% YoY; Truckload Transportation Services revenue fell 9% to $501.9M.
- Diluted loss per share $0.16 vs $0.10 EPS prior year; non-GAAP adjusted diluted loss per share $0.12 vs $0.13.
- Operating loss $5.8M vs $15.6M operating income prior year; operating margin (0.8)% vs 2.0%.
- CEO cites elevated insurance costs, extreme weather, smaller fleet, tariff-induced uncertainty as headwinds.
- Dedicated fleet new contracts won; One-Way Truckload revenue per total mile up modestly QoQ.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000793074-25-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WERN
- cik: 0000793074
- company_name: WERNER ENTERPRISES INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793074/000079307425000024/0000793074-25-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/793074/000079307425000024/wern-20250429.htm

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