Forward Air Stock Price Prediction

FWRD Stock  USD 27.62  0.20  0.73%   
At the present time The relative strength index (RSI) of Forward Air's share price is above 80 . This usually indicates that the stock is significantly overbought by investors. The fundamental principle of the Relative Strength Index (RSI) is to quantify the velocity at which market participants are driving the price of a financial instrument upwards or downwards.

Momentum 80

 Buy Stretched

 
Oversold
 
Overbought
The successful prediction of Forward Air's future price could yield a significant profit. Please, note that this module is not intended to be used solely to calculate an intrinsic value of Forward Air and does not consider all of the tangible or intangible factors available from Forward Air's fundamental data. We analyze noise-free headlines and recent hype associated with Forward Air, which may create opportunities for some arbitrage if properly timed. Below are the key fundamental drivers impacting Forward Air's stock price prediction:
Quarterly Earnings Growth
1.45
EPS Estimate Next Quarter
(0.15)
EPS Estimate Current Year
(1.48)
EPS Estimate Next Year
(0.21)
Wall Street Target Price
35.6667
Using Forward Air hype-based prediction, you can estimate the value of Forward Air from the perspective of Forward Air response to recently generated media hype and the effects of current headlines on its competitors. We also analyze overall investor sentiment towards Forward Air using Forward Air's stock options and short interest. It helps to benchmark the overall future attitude of investors towards Forward using crowd psychology based on the activity and movement of Forward Air's stock price.

Forward Air Short Interest

A significant increase or decrease in Forward Air's short interest from the previous month could be a good indicator of investor sentiment towards Forward. Short interest can provide insight into the potential direction of Forward Air stock and how bullish or bearish investors feel about the market overall.
200 Day MA
23.7087
Short Percent
0.1949
Short Ratio
9.85
Shares Short Prior Month
4.3 M
50 Day MA
25.111

Forward Air Hype to Price Pattern

Investor biases related to Forward Air's public news can be used to forecast risks associated with an investment in Forward. The trend in average sentiment can be used to explain how an investor holding Forward can time the market purely based on public headlines and social activities around Forward Air. Please note that most equities that are difficult to arbitrage are affected by market sentiment the most.
Some investors profit by finding stocks that are overvalued or undervalued based on market sentiment. The correlation of Forward Air's market sentiment to its price can help taders to make decisions based on the overall investors consensus about Forward Air.

Forward Air Implied Volatility

    
  0.83  
Forward Air's implied volatility exposes the market's sentiment of Forward Air stock's possible movements over time. However, it does not forecast the overall direction of its price. In a nutshell, if Forward Air's implied volatility is high, the market thinks the stock has potential for high price swings in either direction. On the other hand, the low implied volatility suggests that Forward Air stock will not fluctuate a lot when Forward Air's options are near their expiration.
The fear of missing out, i.e., FOMO, can cause potential investors in Forward Air to buy its stock at a price that has no basis in reality. In that case, they are not buying Forward because the equity is a good investment, but because they need to do something to avoid the feeling of missing out. On the other hand, investors will often sell stocks at prices well below their value during bear markets because they need to stop feeling the pain of losing money.

Forward Air after-hype prediction price

    
  USD 27.13  
There is no one specific way to measure market sentiment using hype analysis or a similar predictive technique. This prediction method should be used in combination with more fundamental and traditional techniques such as stock price forecasting, technical analysis, analysts consensus, earnings estimates, and various momentum models.

Prediction based on Rule 16 of the current Forward contract

Based on the Rule 16, the options market is currently suggesting that Forward Air will have an average daily up or down price movement of about 0.0519% per day over the life of the 2026-03-20 option contract. With Forward Air trading at USD 27.62, that is roughly USD 0.0143 . If you think that the market is fully incorporating Forward Air's daily price movement you should consider acquiring Forward Air options at the current volatility level of 0.83%. But if you have an opposite viewpoint you should avoid it and even consider selling them.
Check out Forward Air Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections.
For information on how to trade Forward Stock refer to our How to Trade Forward Stock guide.
Intrinsic
Valuation
LowRealHigh
24.4327.7030.97
Details
Naive
Forecast
LowNextHigh
23.7727.0430.31
Details
6 Analysts
Consensus
LowTargetHigh
32.4635.6739.59
Details
Earnings
Estimates (0)
LowProjected EPSHigh
-0.45-0.37-0.27
Details

Forward Air After-Hype Price Density Analysis

As far as predicting the price of Forward Air at your current risk attitude, this probability distribution graph shows the chance that the prediction will fall between or within a specific range. We use this chart to confirm that your returns on investing in Forward Air or, for that matter, your successful expectations of its future price, cannot be replicated consistently. Please note, a large amount of money has been lost over the years by many investors who confused the symmetrical distributions of Stock prices, such as prices of Forward Air, with the unreliable approximations that try to describe financial returns.
   Next price density   
       Expected price to next headline  

Forward Air Estimiated After-Hype Price Volatility

In the context of predicting Forward Air's stock value on the day after the next significant headline, we show statistically significant boundaries of downside and upside scenarios based on Forward Air's historical news coverage. Forward Air's after-hype downside and upside margins for the prediction period are 23.86 and 30.40, respectively. We have considered Forward Air's daily market price in relation to the headlines to evaluate this method's predictive performance. Remember, however, there is no scientific proof or empirical evidence that news-based prediction models outperform traditional linear, nonlinear models or artificial intelligence models to provide accurate predictions consistently.
Current Value
27.62
27.13
After-hype Price
30.40
Upside
Forward Air is not too volatile at this time. Analysis and calculation of next after-hype price of Forward Air is based on 3 months time horizon.

Forward Air Stock Price Outlook Analysis

Have you ever been surprised when a price of a Company such as Forward Air is soaring high without any particular reason? This is usually happening because many institutional investors are aggressively trading Forward Air backward and forwards among themselves. Have you ever observed a lot of a particular company's price movement is driven by press releases or news about the company that has nothing to do with actual earnings? Usually, hype to individual companies acts as price momentum. If not enough favorable publicity is forthcoming, the Stock price eventually runs out of speed. So, the rule of thumb here is that as long as this news hype has nothing to do with immediate earnings, you should pay more attention to it. If you see this tendency with Forward Air, there might be something going there, and it might present an excellent short sale opportunity.
Expected ReturnPeriod VolatilityHype ElasticityRelated ElasticityNews DensityRelated DensityExpected Hype
  0.67 
3.27
  0.29 
  0.02 
8 Events / Month
7 Events / Month
In about 8 days
Latest traded priceExpected after-news pricePotential return on next major newsAverage after-hype volatility
27.62
27.13
1.06 
743.18  
Notes

Forward Air Hype Timeline

Forward Air is currently traded for 27.62. The entity has historical hype elasticity of -0.29, and average elasticity to hype of competition of 0.02. Forward is projected to decline in value after the next headline, with the price expected to drop to 27.13. The average volatility of media hype impact on the company price is over 100%. The price decrease on the next news is expected to be -1.06%, whereas the daily expected return is currently at 0.67%. The volatility of related hype on Forward Air is about 11678.57%, with the expected price after the next announcement by competition of 27.64. About 98.0% of the company shares are owned by institutional investors. The company has Price/Earnings To Growth (PEG) ratio of 2.01. Forward Air recorded a loss per share of 4.05. The entity last dividend was issued on the 21st of November 2023. The firm had 3:2 split on the 4th of April 2005. Given the investment horizon of 90 days the next projected press release will be in about 8 days.
Check out Forward Air Basic Forecasting Models to cross-verify your projections.
For information on how to trade Forward Stock refer to our How to Trade Forward Stock guide.

Forward Air Related Hype Analysis

Having access to credible news sources related to Forward Air's direct competition is more important than ever and may enhance your ability to predict Forward Air's future price movements. Getting to know how Forward Air's peers react to changing market sentiment, related social signals, and mainstream news is a great way to find investing opportunities and time the market. The summary table below summarizes the essential lagging indicators that can help you analyze how Forward Air may potentially react to the hype associated with one of its peers.
Hype
Elasticity
News
Density
Semi
Deviation
Information
Ratio
Potential
Upside
Value
At Risk
Maximum
Drawdown
FIPFTAI Infrastructure(0.12)8 per month 3.69  0.03  7.16 (6.73) 18.25 
NXQuanex Building Products 0.19 12 per month 2.32  0.09  6.18 (4.72) 14.57 
CODICompass Diversified Holdings(0.16)12 per month 0.00 (0.03) 7.26 (6.86) 35.68 
TET1 Energy(0.47)11 per month 5.38  0.21  15.44 (8.86) 30.81 
ASPNAspen Aerogels 0.08 10 per month 0.00 (0.17) 5.80 (6.54) 52.64 
EHEhang Holdings 0.63 8 per month 0.00 (0.15) 5.79 (5.09) 17.58 
VSTSVestis 0.18 7 per month 3.44  0.08  6.21 (6.37) 18.68 
CYRXCryoport(0.22)8 per month 0.00 (0.05) 4.90 (4.40) 14.30 
SNCYSun Country Airlines(0.13)6 per month 1.83  0.20  6.22 (4.25) 13.97 
HTLDHeartland Express 0.30 10 per month 1.37  0.13  5.38 (2.62) 10.17 

Forward Air Additional Predictive Modules

Most predictive techniques to examine Forward price help traders to determine how to time the market. We provide a combination of tools to recognize potential entry and exit points for Forward using various technical indicators. When you analyze Forward charts, please remember that the event formation may indicate an entry point for a short seller, and look at other indicators across different periods to confirm that a breakdown or reversion is likely to occur.

About Forward Air Predictive Indicators

The successful prediction of Forward Air stock price could yield a significant profit to investors. But is it possible? The efficient-market hypothesis suggests that all published stock prices of traded companies, such as Forward Air, already reflect all publicly available information. This academic statement is a fundamental principle of many financial and investing theories used today. However, the typical investor usually disagrees with a 'textbook' version of this hypothesis and continually tries to find mispriced stocks to increase returns. We use internally-developed statistical techniques to arrive at the intrinsic value of Forward Air based on analysis of Forward Air hews, social hype, general headline patterns, and widely used predictive technical indicators.
We also calculate exposure to Forward Air's market risk, different technical and fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then comparing them to Forward Air's related companies.
 2023 2025 2026 (projected)
Dividend Yield0.01530.01760.0316
Price To Sales Ratio1.190.410.39

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