Air Freight & Logistics

The combination of a robust U.S. equity market and the proliferation of company-sponsored retirement plans helped push total assets in 401(k) pans over the $3 trillion threshold at close of last year, up 13% from 2009. The incidents in Japan, the Middle East and even as far back as New Orleans...

When Expeditors International (NASDAQ: EXPD) reports results on May 4 JP Morgan expects the company to show strong 1Q EPS growth. However, while its ocean freight gross yield forecast appears to leave some room for modest upside to ocean net revenue, it believes an in line 1Q report is likely based...

By Atlantic Capital Management This has to be the most pivotal earnings season of the current “recovery." The markets can sense the coming crossroads as investors anxiously await confirmation that rising commodities have either had little effect or that margins are beginning to erode like Nike's (...

Shares of Hub Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HUBG) are higher on the session by 1.12%, currently trading at $38.66. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past six months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying puts on the name today. A...

Deutsche Bank has issued a report upgrading C.H. Robinson Worldwide (NASDAQ: CHRW) to a Buy Rating. According to the report, “We believe the market is missing the strength of CHRW's business model and how its business model reacts to a tightening of TL capacity, rising fuel prices, and increasing...

Rosetta Resources Inc (NASDAQ: ROSE) was upgraded by Canaccord from "hold" to "buy." ROSE's shares closed at $42.05 yesterday. Rosetta Resources' PEG ratio is 0.87. BofA/Merrill upgraded Melco Crown Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ: MPEL) from “neutral” to “buy.” MPEL's shares closed at $8.69...

Deutsche Bank has upgraded CH Robinson Worldwide (NASDAQ: CHRW) from Hold to Buy and has raised the price target from $79 to $86.

Analysts at Deutsche Bank upgrade C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: CHRW) from “hold” to “buy.” The target price for CHRW has been raised from $79 to $86. CHRW shares rose 1.37% to close at $75.39 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Citi is reiterating its Buy rating and its $84 price target on United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) as its lowers its EPS estimates. Says Citi, in its report, “We are lowering our 1Q11 EPS estimate by $0.02 to $0.85 due to cost pressures from sequentially rising fuel prices (we assign $0.08 of impact...

Below are the top large-cap air delivery & freight services stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. United Parcel Service Inc (NYSE: UPS) has a dividend yield of 2.80%. UPS' shares closed at $72.61 yesterday. C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: CHRW) has a dividend...

Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services, a subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATSG), announced additional contracts with Vision Airlines for support of Vision's Boeing 767 and Boeing 737 aircraft. The announcement comes in conjunction with the Aviation Week MRO...

United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) shares are back to nearly unchanged, down 4 cents to $73.21, a loss of 0.05% after having been as low as $72.55 earlier in the session. 2.2 million shares have been traded so far, whereas the average daily volume is just over 4.3 million shares.

Sterne Agee is maintaining its Buy rating and its price target of $42 on Hub Group Inc (NASDAQ: HUBG), claiming that the company's acquisition of Mode Transportation could be more lucrative than being let on. In the report, Sterne Agee writes, “We view the acquisition as a positive given the...

The transports are at session lows, and most believe that the transport sector leads the economy, and is a very prevalent market indicator. If transports are making new highs, then it can be expected that the broader averages will soon follow, if they haven't already. With names like UPS (NYSE:...

Park-Ohio Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: PKOH), announced today the expiration of its previously announced cash tender offer for its outstanding 8-3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 and the related consent solicitation to amend the indenture governing the...