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David Fingold
United Parcel Services
UPS-N
COMMENT
Jan 03, 2018
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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A dividend pick for 2025. Is down a lot from their highs. A contrarian play. It pays around a 5% dividend yield. It trades at a reasonable valuation and offers decent earnings growth in 2025 of 5-7%. Collect the dividend and enjoy a little capital appreciation on top. You won't shoot the lights out, but you can relax with this steady earner.
Premium contentUnited Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is a package delivery company. The Company is a provider of global supply chain management solutions. The Company operates through three segments: U.S. Domestic Package operations, International Package operations, and Supply Chain & Freight operations. As of December 31, 2016, the Company delivered packages in over 220 countries and territories. The Company offers a spectrum of the United States domestic guaranteed ground and air package transportation services. The International Package segment includes the small package operations in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Canada and Latin America, the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East and Africa. The Supply Chain & Freight segment includes its forwarding and logistics services, truckload freight brokerage, UPS Freight and its financial offerings through UPS Capital. The Company serves the global market for logistics services, which include transportation, distribution, contract logistics and ground freight. Social media mentions are up 2500% in the past 24h.
Transport stocks in general have been weak. One of the weakest stocks in the sector. Execution problems. He's the last guy to try to pick a bottom. Yield is 7%, without huge coverage. Doesn't expect dividend cut, but doesn't inspire confidence when entire earnings go to pay the dividend. Stay away.
Has avoided this, but can see why people are interested. There is the view that the post office is going to have to raise package delivery prices. However, the discussion that is important is the complete change in logistics Amazon has created. Feels this and Federal Express are organized around the idea of hubs and moving distribution through central hubs. Amazon is arranged completely differently, building warehouses in large cities. He sees incentives for retailers going directly to consumers to try to take the line away from companies, and try to turn it into a local P&D business.