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Union Pacific: Outlook Uncertain
Vahan Janjigian Forbes submits: Union Pacific UNP is one of two major railroad operators in the western U.S. Its network includes over 32,000 route miles covering 23 states, which includes access to the Canadian and Mexican borders and the Gulf and Pacific coasts. Its fleet includes over 8,700 locomotives...
Will Railway Prices Stay On Track?
FP Trading Desk submits: Railway companies may have been able to maintain healthy pricing growth in 2007 and 2008, but next year could be an entirely different story as loads could see big declines. So investors are playing close attention to whether or not management can push rates higher...
Union Pacific Corporation's CFO to Address Goldman Sachs Global Industrials Conference
OMAHA, Neb. -- Rob Knight, executive vice president - Finance and chief financial officer of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), will participate in a panel discussion on rail industry topics at the Goldman Sachs Global Industrials Conference at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 in New York City....
Union Pacific Corporation Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question is from Tom Wadewitz with JP Morgan. Please proceed with your question. Tom Wadewitz – JP Morgan Hi. Yeah. Good morning. Jim and Rob, I just jumped over from the UPS had their call going on, so I apologize, if I’m going...
Earnings Preview: Union Pacific Corporation
Union Pacific Corporation UNP is expected to report Q3 earnings before market open Thursday, October 23, with a conference call scheduled for 8:45 am ET. Guidance Analysts are looking for a profit of $1.30 on revenue of $4.74B. The consensus range for EPS is $1.28 to $1.33, and revenue of...
Buffett's Call on Railroads Right on Track
Mike Havrilla submits: Railroad companies represent a compelling investment despite the run-up in the stock prices of major U.S. players in the industry, such as Warren Buffett favorite Burlington Northern Santa Fe BNI, of which Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) owns nearly 64 million shares for an 18% stake. Railroad companies have...
Looking Inside the New Transportation ETF
Greentech Media submits: By Jeff St. John A new exchange-traded fund that invests in "progressive" transportation companies – ranging from makers of electric-vehicle batteries and drive systems to bicycle makers and railroad and shipping giants – will soon add its name to the a growing roster of ETFs focused...
Pullback in Railroads Offers Short-Term Opportunity
Mark Thomas submits: Since 2004, railroads as a sector have dramatically outperformed the S&P 500 and other transportation stocks. Also, the sector regularly has 6-12% pullbacks based on the latest worry about economic growth, housing, financial crisis and last week slower exports due to a slowing global economy. There was also...
Berkshire Hathaway's Top Performer Over Last 3 Years: Union Pacific
Donald Johnson submits: Union Pacific Corp. UNP has performed the best over the last three years of the 39 stocks owned by Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), which has benefitted from the stock picking of the famous investment guru, Warren Buffett. UNP's total returns over the last three years have averaged...
Rolling with the Transports: Rail and Truckers
Jeffrey Lin submits: Financials. Oil. Financials. Oil. Financials. Dollar. Oil. Anyone look at the transports IYT lately? Rails and truckers specifically? It’s as if fund managers have classified all stocks as financial trades or oil/dollar trades, and the media piles on and that’s all we ever hear...
Transportation Stocks Deserve a Better Look
Investment U submits: Legend has it that Cornelius Vanderbilt began the family fortune with a $100 loan from his mother. He used the money to launch a ferry service across New York Harbor, which eventually turned into a fleet of more than 100 steamboats that traveled as far as...
Buffett Takes Berkshire Hathaway on $4 Billion Spending Spree
Money Morning submits: By Jason Simpkins Not even Warren Buffett was immune to the stock market’s rampant first-half gyrations, as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A) notched its worst first half in 18 years, with the shares skidding more than 16%. But only a fool would count out the...
Railway Stocks Haul Transportation ETF to Solid Returns
Don Dion submits: iShares Dow Jones Transport ETF IYT was up 14.5% year to date on Aug. 15—more than the fund returned during each of the last three calendar years, and among the top 25 of all 800-plus ETFs tracked by Morningstar. IYT invests in just 21...
Warren Buffett Accumulates NRG Energy, Ingersoll-Rand and Union Pacific
Lon Juricic submits: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway released its 13F for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. Below are some notable moves: New 3,238,100 share stake in NRG Energy NRG Raised stake in Ingersoll-Rand IR from 936,600 shares to...
Checking In on Warren Buffett and George Soros
Market Beating Stocks submits: The 13F filings from various funds are flying in now, and I've been pretty busy sorting through them all. There are certain funds I like to track in depth analyzing portfolio movements line by line, and others that I just check for major portfolio moves...
Hedge Fund Tracking: Tremblant Capital
Market Folly submits: Four times a year, hedge funds & asset managers with > $100 million AUM assets under management are required to report to the SEC their holdings from the previous quarter. I check these 13F filings quarterly just to get a sense as to where these funds are...
Following Buffett's Railroad Tracks
Investment U submits: Warren Buffett is arguably the greatest value investor the world has ever seen. His investment holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), has averaged a compounded return of 21% a year since 1965. That turned every dollar into $400,863. By contrast, the same investment in the S&P 500...
A Global Transport ETF Strategy
Mike Havrilla submits: Investors are currently limited to the iShares Dow Jones Transports IYT as a transport ETF option with net assets of $698 million and 20 component stocks (stats as of 8/8/08 from the iShares website). The top five holdings account for 43.2% of invested assets and include the...
A Leveraged Investment Vehicle for the Global Rail Industry
Mike Havrilla submits: click to enlarge image by Mike Havrilla
8 Stocks Raising Dividends in This Tough Market
Dividends4Life submits: It is very easy for a CEO to get on a conference call and talk about confidence in the future while communicating glowing projections, but do they really believe what they are saying? Are there any actions that would make you believe what they are saying? Senior...
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Union Pacific Corp. Company Info
NAICS Code
Line-Haul Railroads: 482111
