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UPS Says It ‘Won Back’ Most of the Business It Lost to FedEx During Labor Talks, Disputing Rival’s Claim

By Tomi Kilgore A FedEx exec had said the company held on to ‘all’ of the market share it gained while UPS was negotiating with Teamsters ‘By the end of December, we had won back and pulled through nearly 60% of the volume diverted during our labor negotiation.’UPS Chief Executive Carol Tomé That, from a FactSet transcript of United Parcel Service Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings call Tuesday, appears to be UPS Chief Executive Carol Tomé’s way of saying you shouldn’t believe rival FedEx Corp.’s recent claims on how much market share it’s been able to gain recently. In August, Tomé acknowledged that “late and loud” negotiations between UPS (UPS) and the Teamsters union had led to the more customers than expected going elsewhere to ship their goods. That labor friction, FedEx Chief Customer Officer Brie Carere said last summer, had “opened a lot of doors” to take share from UPS. Then, […]

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UPS Reducing Staff, Eyes Cost Cuts

United Parcel Service is one of the most mentioned companies in the U.S. across all news items in the last 12 hours, according to Factiva data. The package delivery company said it planned to reduce staff by about 12,000, and is expecting to cut costs by $1 billion this year. The company also said it is exploring strategic alternatives for its truckload brokerage business. Dow Jones & Co. owns Factiva.

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UPS’ Exploration of Alternatives for Freight Unit Seen as ‘Unexpected’

United Parcel Service’ announcement regarding the exploration of alternatives for its freight business Coyote Logistics comes about three months after digital startup Convoy, backed by investors including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, wound down its operations. “Coyote represents a relatively small piece of UPS’ business and has seen a lot of volatility amid revenue pressure, but we didn’t expect this,” Citi analyst Christian Wetherbee tells WSJ. “The U.S. freight economy has had two particularly bad years, as freight saw a recession over the past 12 to 18 months, but we’re getting past that,” Wetherbee says. UPS shares fall 7.1% to $146.80.

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Boeing’s Earnings Are Coming. Investors Are Watching for Almost Everything. — Barrons.com

The 737 MAX jet, production quality, new regulatory oversight, the commercial aerospace recovery, new jet approvals, and defense- business profit margins are all areas of interest. All that means it should be interesting when Boeing reports its fourth-quarter numbers on Wednesday morning. For the quarter, Wall Street is looking for a per-share loss of about 76 cents from sales of $21.1 billion, according to Bloomberg. A year ago, Boeing lost $1.75 a share from about $20 billion in sales. Boeing’s commercial airplane business continues to lose money as it continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the worldwide MAX grounding that lasted from March 2019 to November 2020. Boeing delivered 157 aircraft in the fourth quarter, including 107 MAX jets, compared with 152 jets, including 107 MAXes, in the fourth quarter of 2022. For the full year, Boeing delivered 528 planes, including 387 MAX jets, up from 480 planes,

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RTX (NYSE:RTX) Stock Analyst Ratings

RTX (NYSE:RTX) Stock Analyst Ratings Date Upside/Downside Analyst Firm Price Target Change Rating Change Previous / Current Rating 01/30/2024 0% Barclays $75 → $90 Maintains Equal-Weight 01/25/2024 11.11% B of A Securities $78 → $100 Upgrades Underperform → Neutral 01/24/2024 -2.22% RBC Capital → $88 Reiterates Sector Perform → Sector Perform 01/24/2024 6.67% UBS $93 → $96 Maintains Neutral 01/16/2024 4.44% Baird $88 → $94 Downgrades Outperform → Neutral 11/15/2023 — Redburn Atlantic Downgrades Buy → Neutral 10/25/2023 -4.44% Morgan Stanley $83 → $86 Maintains Equal-Weight 10/11/2023 -11.11% UBS $110 → $80 Downgrades Buy → Neutral 09/29/2023 -10% Alembic Global → $81 Initiates Coverage On → Neutral 09/25/2023 -8.89% RBC Capital → $82 Reiterates Sector Perform → Sector Perform 09/25/2023 -7.78% Morgan Stanley $95 → $83 Maintains Equal-Weight 09/18/2023 -13.33% Wells Fargo $100 → $78 Maintains Equal-Weight 09/14/2023 -12.22% DZ Bank → $79 Downgrades Buy → Hold 09/14/2023 -16.67% B

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Accenture (NYSE:ACN) Stock Analyst Ratings

Accenture (NYSE:ACN) Stock Analyst Ratings Date Upside/Downside Analyst Firm Price Target Change Rating Change Previous / Current Rating 01/30/2024 14.03% Mizuho → $426 Initiates Coverage On → Buy 01/25/2024 7.07% UBS $365 → $400 Maintains Neutral 01/24/2024 7.07% Morgan Stanley $369 → $400 Maintains Overweight 12/20/2023 3.05% BMO Capital $350 → $385 Maintains Market Perform 12/20/2023 -2.3% UBS $333 → $365 Maintains Neutral 12/14/2023 -3.64% Wedbush $330 → $360 Maintains Outperform 11/16/2023 9.74% Redburn Atlantic → $410 Initiates Coverage On → Buy 11/07/2023 -10.87% UBS → $333 Initiates Coverage On → Neutral 09/29/2023 -8.99% RBC Capital → $340 Reiterates Outperform → Outperform 09/29/2023 -6.32% BMO Capital $360 → $350 Maintains Market Perform 09/29/2023 -19.7% TD Cowen $312 → $300 Maintains Market Perform 09/29/2023 -13.81% Baird $332 → $322 Maintains Neutral 09/29/2023 -19.7% Piper Sandler $312 → $300 Maintains Neutral 09/27/2023 -3.64% BMO Capital $355 → $360 Maintains Market Perform 09/26/2023

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UPS Releases 4Q 2023 Earnings

UPS Releases 4Q 2023 Earnings — Consolidated Revenues of $24.9B, Compared to $27.0B Last Year — Consolidated Operating Margin of 9.9%; Adjusted* Consolidated Operating Margin of 11.2% — Diluted EPS of $1.87; Adj. Diluted EPS of $2.47, Compared to $3.62 Last Year — Declares a Quarterly Dividend of $1.63, a $0.01 Increase Per Share ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–January 30, 2024– UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced fourth-quarter 2023 consolidated revenues of $24.9 billion, a 7.8% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2022. Consolidated operating profit was $2.5 billion, down 22.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2022, and down 27.1% on an adjusted basis. Diluted earnings per share were $1.87 for the quarter; adjusted diluted earnings per share of $2.47 were 31.8% below the same period in 2022. For the fourth quarter of 2023, GAAP results include a total charge of $512 million, or $0.60 per diluted share, comprised of a non-cash, after-tax mark-to-market

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UPS Expects FY24 Revenue Of $92B-$94.5B Vs. Consensus Of $95.57B; Sees Consolidated Adjusted Operating Margin Of 10.0%-10.6%.

-8.39% For the full year 2024, UPS expects revenue to range from approximately $92.0 billion to $94.5 billion and consolidated adjusted operating margin to range from approximately 10.0% to 10.6%. The company is planning capital expenditures of about $4.5 billion and dividend payments of around $5.4 billion, subject to board approval. The effective tax rate is expected to be around 23.5%.

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UPS to Cut 12,000 Jobs as Delivery Business Slows — WSJ

By Esther Fung United Parcel Service said Tuesday that it plans to cut about 12,000 jobs this year, a move that the package-delivery giant said would result in $1 billion in savings. Most of the cuts will be to full-time and part-time management positions and contract workers, and executives said they don’t expect these jobs to return when parcel volumes return. UPS has around 85,000 workers in management. Chief Executive Carol Tomé said that the company is using artificial intelligence and other new technologies to boost its operations. The job cuts were unveiled after the company said its revenue declined in the last quarter of 2023 as volumes in both its domestic and international businesses dropped. Write to Esther Fung at esther.fung@wsj.com

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RTX’s Raytheon Says CHIMERA High-Power Microwave Weapon Field Test Completed in New Mexico

RTX’s (RTX) Raytheon unit said Monday it and the US Air Force Research Laboratory have completed a three-week field test of the CHIMERA high-power microwave weapon at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. CHIMERA stands for Counter-Electronic High-Power Microwave Extended-Range Air Base Defense system, the company said. The company added the system has been designed to fire highly concentrated radio energy at multiple middle-to-long-range targets. Raytheon has collaborated with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, and the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to complete the project, the company said.

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Boeing Expert Says 737 MAX Freeze & Certification Challenges May Lead To Customer Loss: BofA Analyst

BofA Securities analyst Ronald J. Epstein hosted Chris Brady, author of The Boeing 737 Technical Guide, to discuss the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) mandatory production freeze of Boeing Co’s (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX aircraft and the possible implications for MAX 7 and MAX 10 certification process. As per the analyst, Brady praised the FAA’s decision to freeze production rates and noted that an alternative (such as slowing down rates) could have been much worse for Boeing. The analyst is cautious about the probability of the MAX 7 and 10 aircraft being allowed Time Limit Exceptions (TLE) due to scrutiny related to the door plug incident of Alaska Air Group Inc (NYSE:ALK). Brady says that, before that incident, the FAA would have granted the TLE to Boeing. The analyst notes that Boeing has given June 2026 as a reasonable timeframe for fixing the anti-ice system. The analyst further adds that if certification is delayed until then, Boeing may face the risk

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