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Matthew Young
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Upstart Digital Truck Brokers Not in the Fast Lane to Disrupt Moatworthy Incumbents

Because of high investor interest, we took another close look at the upstart digital freight-matching companies, or DFMs. A few have changed course, but most are still trying to disrupt the traditional truck brokers, supported by a spike in venture capital funding. Uber Freight, Convoy, and Transfix have emerged as front-runners, at least in terms of gross revenue, but we suspect net revenue run rates remain low and operating margins are negligible. DFMs are trying to penetrate asset-light truck...
Underlying
Hub Group Inc. Class A

Hub Group is a supply chain management company that provides transportation and logistics solutions. Through its network, the company arranges for the movement of freight in and out of every main city in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The company's lines of business include: intermodal, which arranges for the movement of its customers' freight in containers and trailers; dedicated trucking, which provides a dedicated fleet of equipment and drivers to each customer; trust brokerage, which operates truck brokerage operations in the U.S.; and logistics, which provides a range of transportation management services and technology solutions, and delivers supply chain services to consumer-packaged goods clients.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

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.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Matthew Young

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