Expeditors Posts Solid 2Q Volume Growth, but Gross Margins Seeing Near-Term Pressure
In the second quarter, wide-moat global forwarder Expeditors International posted 13.5% gross revenue growth year over year, modestly ahead of our forecast on better-than-anticipated air and ocean volume gains linked to healthy global trade in recent quarters. During the first half of 2017, freight demand accelerated nicely, but the interplay of buy rates (for air and ocean capacity) and sell rates (to customers) has been quite volatile. We suspect buy rates spiked further during the quarter and...Expeditors International of Washington provides global logistics services. As a third party logistics provider, the company purchases cargo space from carriers (such as airlines, ocean shipping lines, and trucking lines) on a volume basis and resells that space to its customers. The company provides a range of transportation services and customer solutions, such as customs brokerage, order management, transportation, warehousing and distribution, transit, cargo insurance, cargo monitoring and tracking, and other customized logistics and consulting solutions. The company's Project Cargo unit handles special project shipments that move via a single method or combination of air, ocean, and/or ground transportation.
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Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.
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