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The latest example came today when a BB&T analyst upgraded FedEx and UPS following a 19 percent drop and 8 percent slide respectively in the shares over the last three months on double-dip recession fears.
Using the kind of data that only an analyst would uncover, BB&T’s Kevin Sterling cited FedEx’s plans to increase pilot work hours to pre-recession levels “in anticipation of stronger demand, particularly out of Asia.” The analyst also cited moves by both UPS and FedEx to add planes to their Asia networks.
"Who forgot to tell the air cargo industry that we are in the midst of a double-dip recession?" asks Sterling, who also cited valuation. UPS trade at about 16 times his 2011 earnings estimates, below the five-year average of 18.
Following the biggest weekly surge in a year, stocks drifted as investors await earnings releases from the likes of Alcoa and CSX after the bell today. In a sign that maybe things aren’t so bad, shares of CSX, the No. 3 U.S. railroad, are down just 3 percent over the last three months leading up to tonight’s earnings.
Analysts are clearly seeing different views on these bellwether stocks. UBS upgraded FedEx and UPS on July 1.
FedEx reported earnings mid-June that knocked the stock after they provided conservative guidance that raised the possibility of an earnings miss for the year. But the economy wasn’t cited. Instead management cited pension costs, aircraft maintenance and health care costs. These are FedEx problems. Not the world’s problems.
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