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• Tariffs' Threat to Knight's Retail and Industrial End Markets a Key Factor to Watch

  By Matthew Young| Morningstar@ Before its 2017 merger with Swift Transportation, Knight Transportation was the 12th-largest full-truckload carrier in the United States, with a long history of exceptional execution, including average returns on invested capital in the low teens—an unusual accomplishment in trucking

  By Matthew Young · Morningstar

  Apr. 04, 2025

• FedEx and UPS: Tariffs’ Threat to Retail and Industrial End Markets a Key Factor to Watch

  By Matthew Young| Morningstar@ President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on all US imports. For the US parcel carriers, the key threat is tariffs’ impact on macroeconomic growth in terms of consumer goods spending (for business-to-consumer package volumes) and industrial production (for business-to-business volumes). Why it matters: E-commerce growth has been a tailwind for the integrators’ domestic and international B2C package volumes, while B2B activity has been sluggish due to soft industrial end-market demand

  By Matthew Young · Morningstar

  Apr. 03, 2025

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