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SAIA SAIA INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 78709Y105 · Sector: Industrials

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
506
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+58
Last quarter 448 → now 506
How unusual is that
Top 5%
Stronger buying than 96% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

506 funds held SAIA at the end of 2026Q2, up 58 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 95.7% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $3.4B(YoY +4.8%), the P/E is 34.0x, return on equity is 10.2%. SAIA has had 20 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +6.1% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Industrials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q3: holders=153 2013Q4: holders=146 2014Q1: holders=158 2014Q2: holders=177 2014Q3: holders=167 2014Q4: holders=180 2015Q1: holders=168 2015Q2: holders=143 2015Q3: holders=150 2015Q4: holders=136 2016Q1: holders=149 2016Q2: holders=139 2016Q3: holders=138 2016Q4: holders=175 2017Q1: holders=162 2017Q2: holders=163 2017Q3: holders=186 2017Q4: holders=188 2018Q1: holders=210 2018Q2: holders=195 2018Q3: holders=192 2018Q4: holders=183 2019Q1: holders=188 2019Q2: holders=175 2019Q3: holders=201 2019Q4: holders=201 2020Q1: holders=183 2020Q2: holders=207 2020Q3: holders=222 2020Q4: holders=244 2021Q1: holders=263 2021Q2: holders=275 2021Q3: holders=297 2021Q4: holders=334 2022Q1: holders=351 2022Q2: holders=325 2022Q3: holders=312 2022Q4: holders=327 2023Q1: holders=359 2023Q2: holders=384 2023Q3: holders=428 2023Q4: holders=448 2024Q1: holders=505 2024Q2: holders=464 2024Q3: holders=454 2024Q4: holders=481 2025Q1: holders=451 2025Q2: holders=424 2025Q3: holders=425 2025Q4: holders=430 2026Q1: holders=448 2026Q2: holders=506 -58 -29 +0 +29 +58 122327532 13Q315Q116Q318Q119Q321Q122Q324Q125Q326Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 20 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 5%
2026Q1 Top 20% -8.8%
2024Q4 Top 20% -27.2% -41.5%
2024Q1 Top 5% +17.8% -2.4%
2023Q3 Top 5% +1.7% +28.6%
2023Q2 Top 10% -5.4% -2.2%
2023Q1 Top 5% +22.7% +45.6%
2022Q1 Top 20% +5.6% +29.2%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
243
Change in large funds
+40
Total value they hold
$11.7B
Funds buying for the first time
105
Funds that sold out entirely
47
Price change that quarter
-23.1%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
6
Funds holding calls (bullish)
5

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
34.0
EPS (TTM)
$10.36
EPS YoY
-4.3%
Revenue (TTM)
$3.4B
Revenue YoY
+4.8%
Net margin
8.2%
ROE
10.2%
Debt ratio
26.8%
FCF (TTM)
$255M
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-09-30: EPS 3.67 2022-12-31: EPS 2.65 2023-03-31: EPS 2.85 2023-06-30: EPS 3.42 2023-09-30: EPS 3.67 2023-12-31: EPS 3.32 2024-03-31: EPS 3.38 2024-06-30: EPS 3.83 2024-09-30: EPS 3.46 2024-12-31: EPS 2.84 2025-03-31: EPS 1.86 2025-06-30: EPS 2.67 2025-09-30: EPS 3.22 2025-12-31: EPS 1.77 2026-03-31: EPS 1.86 2026-06-30: EPS 3.51 0M 478M 956M $M 0.00 2.11 4.21 201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 34 21 36 51 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-351M-132M88M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $74M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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