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They reported a mixed quarter last night: slight beat in sales due to strength in intermodal business, but a big earnings miss. Yet, it opened higher this morning. The freight market has been horrible the past two years. Hunt's CEO however made encouraging comments about intermodal shipping (half of JBHT's business), citing volume increases last October-December of 6-8% monthly, with an uptick at the end of the year. Rising volumes will eventually trickle to the bottom line. Skeptics note that disruptions in Red Sea shipping benefitted Hunt. The CEO says he doesn't know the impact of the Red Sea yet. Earnings missed because of $53 million of higher costs (rocketing insurance rates). Verdict: the turn in trucking is just beginning and needs time to play out. Also rising freight costs will make it harder for the Fed to cut interest rates. But when the business cycle starts rolling, you can make great money from the trucking stocks.

WEAK BUY

They reported an okay quarter earlier this week, beating revenues and EPS, but their guidance wasn't encouraging. It rallied when the regional banks rebounded last year. PNC isn't his favourite in this space, but owning it won't hurt you.

DON'T BUY

Earlier this week, they reported a modest revenue beat as EPS was inline, but guidance was tepid. After rallying hard in Q4 last year, shares have pulled back to start the year.

BUY

They reported earlier this week. Results were inline, but expectations were so low. Their outlook for 2024 was very encouraging though, more than its peers. CEO says net interest income will bottom next quarter.

BUY

They reported earlier this week a strong quarter. Credit charges were lower than expected, they attracted $6 billion in new deposits in mid-2023, and 5% loan growth last year.

COMMENT

They reported earlier this week, slightly beating revenues, but missing EPS a lot. But MTB is a higher-quality regional bank, because they avoided the mistakes made by peers.

WEAK BUY

They reported earlier this week: they beat revenues, but missed EPS. They took a $6 billion impairment charge that he wants to learn more about. TFC is okay going forward.

WEAK BUY

They just reported an okay quarter and optimistic full-year forecast.

BUY

Today they reported a revenue and EPS beat with solid guidance with confident growth targets.

DON'T BUY

TOST offers nothing proprietary. These companies are interchangeable.

DON'T BUY

He doesn't know what mortgages they have, so don't buy.

BUY

Their chart is a reverse head-and-shoulders, it pays a good 3.5% yield, and trades at a cheap PE.