UPS - United Parcel Service, Inc.
| Previous Close | 116.95 |
| Open | 118.03 |
| Bid | 118.57 x 900 |
| Ask | 118.57 x 1000 |
| Day's Range | 117.80 - 119.63 |
| 52 Week Range | 89.89 - 125.31 |
| Volume | 2916117 |
| Avg. Volume | 2,850,873 |
| Market Cap | 102B |
| Beta (5Y Monthly) | 1.22 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 20.63 |
| EPS (TTM) | 5.75 |
| Earnings Date | Jan 29, 2020 - Feb 3, 2020 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | 3.84 (3.28%) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2019-11-15 |
| 1y Target Est | 125.33 |
- Barrons.com
FedEx and UPS Have a New Problem With the Last Mile. It’s an Opportunity for Investors.
A shifting landscape in the logistic industry and mounting competition to make so-called last-mile deliveries are changing minds on Wall Street.
- MarketWatch
UPS is at risk as shrinking delivery times and smaller packages disrupt business model
United Parcel Services Inc. stock slid Wednesday, after BMO downgraded the stock and said the rise of e-commerce is disrupting the delivery business as more parcels go to residential addresses than businesses, squeezing profit for the incumbents.
- Zacks
Will Ground Unit's High Costs Mar FedEx's (FDX) Q2 Earnings?
Increased investments at FedEx's (FDX) Ground unit are likely to have hurt its fiscal second-quarter performance.
- Zacks
Will Express Unit Weakness Mar FedEx's (FDX) Earnings in Q2?
Factors like the ongoing trade uncertainty and sluggish industrial production are likely to have hampered FedEx (FDX) Express performance in second-quarter fiscal 2020.
- Benzinga
Volga-Dnepr Veteran Takes Top Cargo Job At UK Airport
East Midlands Airport, the largest dedicated air cargo operation in the United Kingdom, has named Stephen Harvey vice president of cargo. Harvey joins the airport authority from CargoLogicManagement, the management and sales service side of the Volga-Dnepr Group of international all-cargo airlines, where he was director of business partnerships and new market development. Financially troubled Moscow-based Volga-Dnepr has lost several top executives in the past year.
- Zacks
FedEx Q2 2020 Earnings Preview: Time to Buy Beaten Down FDX Stock?
Should investors think about buying beaten down FedEx stock before it releases its second quarter fiscal 2020 earnings results on Tuesday, December 17?
- Reuters
Amazon van drivers' on-time delivery rate falls during Cyber Week
Amazon.com Inc van drivers' on-time delivery rate fell to 93.7% for the Cyber Monday week from 98.2% during the Thanksgiving week, consulting firm ShipMatrix said on Wednesday. Amazon did not immediately comment on the holiday performance of the van delivery drivers, who exclusively deliver merchandise from the e-commerce giant to customer homes. Data for United Parcel Service Inc, FedEx Corp and the U.S. Postal Service was not immediately available.
- MarketWatch
UPS stock slides about 1% after BMO downgrades on concerns about U.S.
United Parcel Service Inc.'s shares fell about 1% in premarket trade Wednesday, after BMO downgraded the stock to market perform from outperform. "While we believe that UPS may be able to deliver positive operating leverage (excluding the impact of pension) in the near-term as a result of strong volumes and efficiency gains from past/ongoing productivity investments, we're not convinced a positive trend in operating margins in U.S. domestic operations can be sustained over the medium-term given a significant projected rise in B2C volumes," analyst Fadi Chamoun wrote in a note to clients. Other issues affecting the valuation include capital intensity and free cash flow, where Chamoun sees limited room for improvement. Shares have gained about 22% in 2019, while the S&P 500 has gained 25%.
- Investing.com
UPS Drops as Analyst Questions Margins
Investing.com - UPS slipped Wednesday following an analyst downgrade that raised questions about future margins.
- CNW Group
UPS Expands Global Footprint of International Express Services
MISSISSAUGA, ON , Dec. 11, 2019 /CNW/ - UPS (UPS) today announced an expansion across 40 countries of its UPS Worldwide Express and UPS Express Plus, part of the UPS international suite of shipping services that guarantees time- and day-definite delivery for urgent shipments. UPS express services are now available to businesses across 140 countries and territories, reaching the top 20 countries by GDP with morning delivery.
- Zacks
United Parcel Service (UPS) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
United Parcel Service (UPS) closed at $118.54 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.34% move from the prior day.
- American City Business Journals
The year in incentives: The projects getting public money in 2019 — and into 2020
Economic momentum nationwide continued through 2019, leading to a developer frenzy — with city officials stepping up to offer help for a number of projects. A $36 million deal to incentivize the development of the unfinished Berkman II fell through. Deals in effect Three financial technology companies secured incentive deals in 2019: Fidelity National Information Services Inc., SS&C Technologies Inc. and SoFi Lending Corp. FIS (NYSE: FIS) was the biggest winner of the three, securing $30 million to build a $145 million headquarters in Brooklyn.
- GlobeNewswire
UPS Delivers Expo 2020 Dubai’s Largest Shipment Ahead Of “World’s Greatest Show”
DUBAI, Dec. 10, 2019 -- UPS, Expo 2020’s Official Logistics Partner, delivers three iconic carbon-fiber entry portals for expected 25 million visits from 192 countries The.
- GlobeNewswire
UPS Expands Global Footprint Of International Express Services
UPS (UPS) today announced an expansion across 40 countries of its UPS Worldwide Express and UPS Express Plus, part of the UPS international suite of shipping services that guarantees time- and day-definite delivery for urgent shipments. UPS express services are now available to businesses across 140 countries and territories, reaching the top 20 countries by GDP with morning delivery.
- Benzinga
FMCSA Rejects UPS Driver Training Exemption Request
Federal regulators have denied a petition by UPS Inc (NYSE: UPS) to be exempted from two requirements of the entry-level driver training (ELDT) final rule after finding the company failed to make a valid safety case for its request. In its petition filed earlier this year, UPS contended that its own well-established training program effectively trains drivers, but if forced to comply with the rule's specific instructor qualification requirements it would be unable to use at least 25% of its current certified driver instructors, thereby limiting its ability to meet the demand for new drivers. The company also asked for a five-year exemption from a requirement that every training location be registered separately under the program's Training Provider Registry, claiming it would place a "significant administrative burden" on its in-house training if it were required to register as many as 1,800 UPS locations where a new driver could be trained.
- Benzinga
UK's East Midlands Airport Eyes Direct China Cargo Operations
Officials at East Midlands Airport (EMA), which is second only to London Heathrow in terms of annual cargo volume among U.K. airports, announced that preliminary talks are ongoing with counterparts at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in southwest China and Sichuan Province officials aimed at starting direct cargo flights between the two airports. EMA has not yet pitched carriers to start China service, spokesman Ioan Reed-Aspley said. The airport is the U.K.'s largest dedicated air cargo operation, handling 368,000 tons of freight yearly valued at £11 billion ($14.5 billion), of which involves movements between non-European countries.
- Bloomberg
The Wrong Way to Fight Porch Pirates
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- One consequence of America’s Cyber Monday shopping binge is the imminent arrival of $9.4 billion worth of merchandise on the nation’s doorsteps. And that will cue the annual cries of frustration about porch pirates — along with a raft of local news stories on how to evade them, and a few viral tales of consumers attempting to spook them with booby-trapped packages or glitter bombs.The fixation on thwarting porch pirates is understandable. (I, for one, will confess to being irrationally angry recently when a $27 baby onesie was swiped from my front stoop.) But it is also a flawed way of thinking about a legitimate and persistent problem with e-commerce.The problem is not just theft. It is that shipping giants such as United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp., as well as big retailers, are not moving fast enough to make delivery of online orders more flexible and to turn over more control to shoppers.Consumers and neighborhood associations should spend less time trying to answer the question, “How can we create a world where expensive goods can sit on my doorstep for hours and not get stolen?” Instead, they should be asking, “How can we make it so that expensive goods are not left on my doorstep in the first place?”UPS and FedEx, to be fair, have made strides toward giving customers more options. Each has a network of thousands of access points where shoppers can pick up packages, including at ubiquitous stores such as Dollar General or CVS Pharmacy. Both shippers have apps that allow residents to provide delivery instructions for a driver.Retailers, too, are getting more creative. Amazon.com Inc. now offers the option of choosing a single day each week for all of your recent orders to arrive, making it easier to ensure you’ll be home when your haul is delivered. And both Amazon and Walmart Inc. are piloting services that rely on smart-home technology that allows a driver one-time, secure access to your home.Surely such a service, or some variation of it, will become commonplace within a decade. (After all, there was once a time when it was creepy to get in a stranger’s car, but thanks to Uber and Lyft that’s now ordinary.) For now, though, the choices for consumers are underwhelming or confusing — or, in some cases, both.For example, UPS and FedEx both trumpet the convenience of letting you reroute an in-progress shipment to an access point. But online shoppers aren’t able to fully take advantage because retailers can put restrictions on packages preventing the recipient from redirecting them. This is likely a well-intentioned anti-fraud tactic, but it means access points aren’t the reliable solution they’re cracked up to be.And retailers aren’t always great at steering customers toward desirable secure options. Amazon, for example, routinely tries to nudge me at checkout to try a pickup point that is a 30-minute drive from my home, even though there is a Whole Foods Market with Amazon lockers in walking distance.But there are bigger ideas that could do even more to ensure package security. What if UPS or FedEx were to more routinely provide narrower time windows for drop-offs, or to allocate more workers for nighttime deliveries when nine-to-fivers are likely to be at home? What if retailers allowed customers to choose their shipping provider at checkout, which might force shippers to compete for their loyalty?Such changes would further complicate the “last-mile” delivery challenges the industry has been addressing for decades, and would likely add costs. But these are the same logistics experts and retailers that were able to make speedy two-day delivery standard. It’s not unreasonable to expect them to innovate their way to giving shoppers more choice.Even if it’s difficult, improved delivery flexibility is a far better remedy for porch piracy than other headline-grabbing approaches. Police departments have experimented with planting bait packages on doorsteps that are outfitted with GPS trackers, potentially allowing them to catch individual thieves. Texas has a new law on the books that makes package theft punishable by up to 10 years in prison.Never mind that there are already laws against theft. These kinds of punitive measures are not useless, but they are likely to be helpful only in a limited area for a limited period of time.The more productive approach is to focus on reducing the unsecured supply of porch treasures. And no one is better equipped to attack that problem than the retailers and shippers. So shoppers should raise their expectations of these companies and demand that they do more.To contact the author of this story: Sarah Halzack at shalzack@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Newman at mnewman43@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Sarah Halzack is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering the consumer and retail industries. She was previously a national retail reporter for the Washington Post.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters
Four people killed in failed robbery shootout in Florida
Four people died in a shootout following the theft of a United Parcel Service Inc truck and an attempted jewelry store robbery in a Miami suburb, the FBI and police said late on Thursday. The incident began with an attempted robbery of a jewelry store in the Miami suburb of Coral Gables, in the city's famed "Miracle Mile" shopping district about 4:15 p.m. The shop owner confronted the robbers with a gun.
- Investopedia
Seasonal Hiring Companies Fail to Impress
Market MovesStocks closed slightly higher in a trading session that featured slightly more selling than buying. The S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq 100 (NDX) closed with a two-tenths percent increase, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJX) and the Russell 2000 (RUT) managed half that amount.
- Zacks
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: TOTAL, Broadcom, United Parcel Service, Deere and HP
The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: TOTAL, Broadcom, United Parcel Service, Deere and HP
- Benzinga
UPS Truck Drivers In UK Threaten Strike At Big Retailer's DC
Customers of retailer Argos, which operates in the U.K. and Ireland, could face disappointment during the Christmas season after staff at one of the retailer's distribution centers voted to strike in a long-running row over pay. Argos is a major player in the retail sector with more than 883 retail shops, 29 million shop customers yearly and nearly 1 billion online visitors annually. Yard and highway drivers employed by UPS Inc (NYSE: UPS) at Argos' flagship distribution center at Barton in Staffordshire, England, have scheduled a 15-day strike following a 10-month wage dispute, according to a Dec. 3 announcement from trade union Unite.
- Zacks
Top Analyst Reports for TOTAL, Broadcom & United Parcel Service
Top Analyst Reports for TOTAL, Broadcom & United Parcel Service
- GlobeNewswire
UPS Honors Veterans With Support Of Wreaths Across America
As part of its ongoing recognition and support of veterans, UPS (UPS) has announced it will be joining with non-profit organization Wreaths Across America to support the week-long journey culminating in a wreath-laying event at Arlington National Cemetery on December 14th. This year, the Wreaths Across America convoy will be delivering 50,000 of the quarter of a million wreaths that will be placed at Arlington National Cemetery on Wreaths Across America Day, with public events at schools and veterans’ locations along the way in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Washington D.C. The Wreaths Across America Honor Trailer created by Contract Leasing Corp. will be filled with wreaths and pulled by a vehicle and driver provided by UPS®, this year’s trailer sponsor.
- American City Business Journals
UPS at peak season — by the numbers (PHOTOS)
Take an inside look at the largest package handling facility in the world during its busiest season.
- American City Business Journals
UPS promotes Marken CEO to lead new Healthcare and Life Sciences unit
UPS tapped a leader to oversee the company's new health-care unit that's aimed at pharmaceutical, biopharma and medical device companies.
