2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $2.7B to $2.9B, increasing; diluted EPS 3.82 to -0.24, decreasing.
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Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power.
53
Median ROIC 12.4%, above the 12% hurdle in 60% of years.
28
Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage 0x.
40
Owner earnings changed -13.4%/yr over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
The pricingPower component abstained: Not enough years of gross-margin data to score pricing power. The other four 20% weights were renormalized over the scored 80%.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
57% above value if growth stopped today
$112M
$20.86
$20.86
$32.81
57% above value if growth stopped today
What today’s price assumes: owner earnings growing ~9%/yr over 5 years. The zero-growth estimate assumes owner earnings stay flat (0% growth).
How to read this
We solve for the constant annual change in owner earnings that would make the five-year zero-growth estimate equal today’s price. This keeps the existing model inputs and calculation unchanged; it is an expectations lens, not a forecast.
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. WERN revenue fell in each of the three most recent year-over-year FY comparisons, so this estimate is flagged as unreliable for this company.
Among the current top-score group, the median current price is 243% above the zero-growth estimate across 49 of the current top 50 companies by Moat Score with both values.
Missing a usable price or zero-growth estimate: ANF.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
19 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $2.2B (FY2008) to $2.9B (FY2025) — about 1.7% a year compounded over 17 years.
It earned 0.7% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 18-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 12.7%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 12.4%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 53/100.
WERN's latest filed year, FY2025, doesn't disclose total debt in a form the methodology can use, so current leverage is treated as unmeasured — never assumed to be zero.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
FY2007–FY2025 · 19 fiscal years, normalized from WERN’s SEC filings
Sales, as filed$2.9B FY2025Revenue kept after cost of goods
Not disclosed in WERN’s filings for these years — we don’t estimate it.
Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICStandard ROIC 15.2% FY2021
Exact FY and FY-1 financing invested-capital inputs are required.
Cash an owner could take out$21.6M FY2025
The explained ROIC gaps have filed inputs but no meaningful positive invested-capital denominator. Other gaps mean the item is not in the filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Flagship explainer
How WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC. makes its money
WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC.'s filing does not supply enough comparable lines for a truthful flow chart — here's what is filed:
Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Oct 19, 2026.
Partial coverage: the incomplete Form 4 walk cannot establish no activity, an activity date, or zero counts.
Moat Score history
31 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten
Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale38.4 / 100
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
This machine-readable surface covers SEC ownership filings from 2003; it does not represent earlier paper-era records.
Records still being gathered — partial as of retrieval Oct 19, 2026.
Among the rows shown, A/F/M acquisition, payment or withholding, and exercise or conversion rows outnumber S sale rows (1 versus 0). The filing codes alone do not establish that every such row arose from a compensation plan.
Trailing-12-month totals and the 90-day cluster result are withheld because this issuer walk is incomplete.
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Insider
Shares owned after
Date
Filing detail
Hoelting Paul ADirector
Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)Table I · Acquired · Common Stock
2,058
—Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)
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2,058
Aug 7, 2026
1 filed lot
Table I · Common Stock: 2,058 shares at — (Grant, award, or other acquisition (A)) · code A · owned after 2,058 ·
How WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
Point-in-time scores 2011–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight
Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored WERN on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the 2 years WERN rated Wide-moat (2022 and 2023), the median forward total return that followed — measured only after each year’s filings were public — was:
1 year−5%vs the S&P 500’s 24% (price basis)· median over 2 years
3 years−21%vs the S&P 500’s 79% (price basis)· median over 1 year
5 yearsNone of the 2 years it rated Wide has a fully elapsed 5-year window with a benchmark to compare against yet.
These are medians computed from the data, not a claim about any one year. The company figures are total returns (dividends reinvested); the S&P 500 is the price-only ^GSPC index, which excludes dividends and so understates the index — the gap flatters the company. A quality rating is not a return forecast, and past returns don’t predict future ones. Educational only, not investment advice.
Industrials context
#265 of 448 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Does WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC. have an economic moat?
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores WERNER ENTERPRISES, INC. (WERN) 38.4 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 33, pricing power not measurable from the filings, returns on capital 53, balance-sheet safety 28, capital allocation 40.
Is WERN trading below the conservative owner-earnings estimate?
The value if growth stopped today — a zero-growth baseline — is $20.86 per share. It capitalizes normalized owner earnings at a 9% rate and assumes 0% growth. Versus a recent price of $32.81, that is 57% above value if growth stopped today. The model also publishes a capped-growth comparison, but the zero-growth estimate is the cautious baseline. It assumes trailing owner earnings persist and is unreliable for declining businesses. This is an educational estimate from primary SEC filings, not intrinsic value as a fact or investment advice.
How has WERN's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 31 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 38.4 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell WERN. See the disclaimer.