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Is Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) overvalued or undervalued?

Updated Sep 3, 2026 · researched from SEC filings · educational, not advice

Backup data source — This price comes from our backup market-data feed. Valuations here are built from company filings and are unaffected.

Fair value
$153.42
Market price
$187.61
Downside to fair value
18.2%
Verdict
18% above fair value

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The DCF value below is a real engine result at each WACC (not a re-estimate). Drag to see how sensitive ODFL's DCF is to the discount rate.

Market price: $187.61

At a recent price of $187.61, Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) trades 18% above TickerWorth's blended fair value of $153.42 per share — a discounted-cash-flow model cross-checked against peer multiples and asset value — meaning the market currently prices ODFL overvalued vs our estimate of what the business is intrinsically worth. Our fair value sits below the market, an implied -18.2% move to close the gap if the business performs in line with our assumptions. This is an educational model, not a price target or a recommendation — the value moves with the inputs, which you can test yourself using the WACC slider below.

One of the lenses behind that blended figure is a discounted-cash-flow model, which on its own values ODFL at about $79.60 per share. The rest of this page walks through that DCF — its assumptions, reverse-DCF and discount-rate sensitivity — because it is the auditable anchor of the blend.

The valuation discounts Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.'s projected free cash flows at a weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) of 10.2%, with a long-run terminal growth rate of 2.5%. About 71% of the enterprise value comes from the terminal value — the portion beyond the explicit forecast window — which is typical for a stable, cash-generative business and a reminder that small changes in the discount rate or terminal growth assumption swing the intrinsic value meaningfully.

Running the DCF in reverse — solving for the growth the current price already assumes — ODFL would need sustained revenue growth of more than 25%/yr to justify today's price, against the roughly 7.2% average our base case assumes. We don't quote a precise figure here, because past about 25% a year the reverse-DCF stops being informative: it solves for revenue growth alone, holding margins, capital intensity and the forecast horizon fixed, so a price well above our fair value has nowhere to go but growth. The honest reading is that the price implies growth this model can't reconcile — not that we forecast it.

Sensitivity matters more than any single number. Across a reasonable band of discount-rate assumptions, ODFL's modeled DCF value ranges from about $61.74 to $114.48 per share. If that range still sits below today's price, the market is optimistic relative to the model across the whole band; if it brackets the price, the stock is roughly fairly valued on our assumptions. Use the interactive slider to see exactly where your own cost-of-capital view lands.

How to read this page: the DCF fair value is what Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. would be worth if its cash flows grow as modeled and are discounted at the stated WACC. The assumptions table shows every input and its source; the reverse-DCF shows what the market believes; the sensitivity band shows how fragile the answer is. None of this is investment advice — it is a transparent, auditable framework for forming your own view of ODFL's intrinsic value. Figures update as new filings and prices come in.

The assumptions behind ODFL's DCF

InputValueSource
Base-year revenue$5,496,390,000OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC. FY2025 10-K (accession 0001193125-26-067161): us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax, FY2025 full year.
Base EBIT margin24.8%OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC. FY2025 10-K (accession 0001193125-26-067161): us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss 1,361,045,000 / revenue 5,496,389,000 = 24.76%, FY2025.
Forecast revenue growth10% → 9% → 7% → 6% → 4%Assumption — TickerWorth's 5-year explicit forecast
Risk-free rate4.7%Live feed — US 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX)
Beta1.18Live feed — yfinance, 5-year monthly beta vs the S&P 500 (clamped to 0.4–2.5)
Terminal growth2.5%Assumption — TickerWorth house default 2.5%, held below WACC
Diluted shares212MOLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC. FY2025 10-K (accession 0001193125-26-067161): WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding = 211,598,000 shares, FY2025.
Market price$187.61Backup price feed · as of 2026-09-03 06:40 UTC

Researched from filings: the base year — revenue, operating margin and balance-sheet figures — comes straight from this company's latest SEC 10-K (cached, refreshed periodically). Forward growth and terminal value are still algorithmic estimates; drag the WACC slider to test sensitivity.

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