secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MARTEN TRANSPORT LTD (MRTN)
CIK:        0000799167
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-10-19T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001437749-21-023898
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Marten Transport Q3 net income up 17.9% to $21.3M; record revenue $251.3M
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- Diluted EPS of $0.26 vs $0.22 in Q3 2020, a 18.2% increase.
- Operating revenue rose 16.3% to a record $251.3M; ex-fuel surcharges revenue +12.8% to $221.2M.
- Operating income improved 16.8% to $28.5M; operating margin (ex-fuel) improved to 87.1% from 87.6%.
- Ended Q3 with 181 more drivers than start of quarter; refrigerated container fleet grew to 607.
- First nine months net income up 21.6% to $60.7M ($0.73 per diluted share).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774921023898/0001437749-21-023898-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799167/000143774921023898/mrtn20211017_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-21-023898

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