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Matthew Young, CFA
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Tight truckload capacity should provide strong pricing tailwinds for Landstar in 2018.

In the fourth quarter, wide-moat highway broker Landstar’s total gross revenue increased a robust 18% year over year and came in ahead of our expectations because of higher-than-anticipated pricing gains. A rapid rebound in spot-pricing conditions across the truckload industry in the second half of 2017 (driven by materially tightening capacity) and broad-based demand improvement (dry van and flatbed) drove the revenue increase. The underlying market improvement isn’t a surprise, but we didn’t e...
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