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FedEx Corp. (FDX) is in the Business Services Industry
- Revenue
- May 31 2007
- $35.2B
- Profit
- May 31 2007
- $2.0B
- Market Cap
- Jul 07 2008
- $23.2B
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Some Consequences if Oil Prices Stay High
Zacks.com submits: Director of Zacks Equity Research Dirk van Dijk, CFA has long considered the affects of sky-high energy prices for an extended period of time on the overall global economy. Today we have him spell out a couple scenarios that may be plausible in the months and...
Air Express Carriers and Intangible Market Value
Victor Cook submits: Two-thirds of the market value of US companies is based on intangibles. Yet, the source of all this intangible market value is considered to be “a mere detail” in some stock pricing models. For example, intangible market value is not given even a passing mention in...
FedEx And UPS: Indicators of a Weak Economy?
Greg Feirman submits: Slow U.S. economic growth and an unprecedented increase in the cost of fuel have resulted in lower-than-expected U.S. package volume and an accelerating contraction in the use of premium air products. In addition, the anemic U.S. economy is negatively impacting package volume into the United...
UPS Shares at 4 1/2-year Low After Profit Warning
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc UPS shares fell 4.6 percent on Tuesday to their lowest point since late 2003, the morning after the world's largest package-delivery company cut its second-quarter profit outlook citing high fuel costs and a...
Profits Seen Off More Than 10 Percent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. corporate profit outlook is deteriorating rapidly, with S&P 500 earnings for the second quarter now seen falling at a double-digit pace from a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters Proprietary Research released on Tuesday. Second...
Investors Look to the Fed for Signals on Inflation and Interest Rates
William Patalon III submits: The U.S. Federal Reserve will be in the spotlight again this week - and not because of those speaking engagements that seem to help whipsaw investor emotions. Tuesday and Wednesday, central bank Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will meet with his fellow policymakers on the interest-rate setting...
UPS Slashes View on Soaring Fuel Costs
By James B. Kelleher CHICAGO (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc UPS warned on Monday that second-quarter earnings would be below expectations, blaming high fuel prices and a sluggish U.S. economy. The announcement from the world's largest package delivery company came...
UPS: Oil's Latest Victim
Steve Farrington submits: Trading of United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS shares was halted Monday after hours until about 4:55 PM EST (T3) as they warned on Q2 earnings, citing, you guessed it, rising oil prices and package volume: Old guidance range: $0.97 to...
Mail Delivery as Economic Bellwether
Zubin Jelveh submits: No less than Alan Greenspan has been said to view FedEx FDX as an indicator of economic conditions to come. So it wasn't a great sign when the shipping giant announced Wednesday its first quarterly loss in 11 years on the back of higher fuel prices....
Are Consumers Too Gloomy - Or Is the Data That Bad?
Barry Ritholtz submits: That's the question asked by the Washington Post: Soft? You betcha. In recession? Quite possibly. And a crisis in the financial markets has rattled nerves for months now. But so far, the economy is holding up better than it did during the last two recessions...
FedEx Forecast Bodes Ill For U.S. Profit Outlook
By Kristina Cooke NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Express may be the proverbial canary in the coal mine. The dismal outlook from the package delivery company on Wednesday may herald an explosion of profit warnings from companies struggling with soaring commodity input costs...
Transports Hit New Highs as FedEx Hits New Lows
FedEx FDX announced a disappointing quarter yesterday morning, missing estimates by $0.02 and guiding next year earnings estimates about $1.00 per share below current estimates. The weak outlook is a result of higher oil prices and a weaker economy (no, really?!?). The problem with FedEx's announcement for the overall...
FedEx Posts Loss, Gives Low Forecast
BURLINGTON, Iowa (Reuters) - Package delivery company FedEx Corp FDX posted a quarterly loss on Wednesday due to high fuel prices, a weak U.S. economy and a previously announced write-down, and issued a weak forecast for fiscal 2009. The news sent the company's...
Corporate America Taking Grimmer View of Economy
By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Corporate America's view of the U.S. economy has grown bleaker, weighed down by surging energy prices, a credit crunch and the worst housing slump in decades, according to two surveys released on Wednesday. The polls showed the...
Options Trader: Wednesday Outlook
Phil Davis submits: As usual, it’s all about the POO today. Oil inventories hit at 10:35 and whichever side of $132.50 we end up today will be the opposite of which side of 12,200 the Dow ends up on. I discussed the oil situation in last night’s wrap-up...
FedEx, Royal Bank of Scotland, Tell the Real Economic Story
Trader Mark submits: As we always say the news flow is really not that much different week to week, or month to month - it's just what the market wishes to ignore and what the market wishes to recognize. We've seen some high profile earnings blowups this week in smaller...
FedEx Corp. F4Q08 (Quarter End 5/31/2008) Earnings Call Transcript
FedEx Corp. FDX F4Q08 Earnings Call
Will the Market Keep Falling? I Hope So
Andy So submits: Some of my readers have asked me if I would be afraid if the market would continue falling to 50% or greater. I?m sure to their surprise, my response has been ?I hope so?. It is human psychology that leads us to believe that buying...
Air Express Carriers and the Missing Factors Model
Victor Cook submits: The previous post in this series was Air Express Carriers: Mr. Smith Goes to Holland. In it I compared actual market shares with optimal ones for a combined FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and TNT [AEX: TNT] in a peer group that included the Swiss carrier Kuhne+Nagel [SWX:...
Fedex Corp: It's All in the Name
If you want to know how to admit that you overpaid for an acquisition four years ago, and do so elegantly, just read this MarketWatch article: SAN FRANCISCO MarketWatch -- FedEx Corporation said after the close of regular trading Monday that it will record a charge of about $891 million...
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- Incorporated: 1997
- CEO: Mr. Frederick W. Smith
FedEx provides a portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services through companies operating under the FedEx brand. These companies are included in four business segments, and represented by Federal Express Corp., an express transportation company; FedEx Ground Package System, Inc., a provider of small-package ground delivery services; FedEx Freight Corp., a U.S. provider of regional next-day and second-day and interregional less-than-truckload freight services; and FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services, Inc., a provider of document services and business services.
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FedEx Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Frederick W. Smith
Chairman
Mr. Charles T. Manatt
Mr. Joshua I. Smith
Mr. Paul S. Walsh
Mr. Peter S. Willmott
Mr. James L. Barksdale
Mr. August A Busch IV
Mr. John A. Edwardson
Ms. Judith L. Estrin
Mr. Philip Greer
Mr. J.R. Hyde III
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Ph.D.
Mr. Steven R. Loranger
Contact Information
942 South Shady Grove Road
Memphis, TN
901 818-7500
NAICS Code
Couriers and Express Delivery Services: 492110
