$20.86

0.26 (1.29%)

11/21/2008 11:04 AM

Arkansas Best Corp (ABFS)

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The Company is engaged through its subsidiaries primarily in motor carrier transportation operations. The principal subsidiaries of the Company are ABF Freight System, Inc. and FleetNet America, Inc.

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Arkansas Best Corp At A Glance

Current Price:	$20.86
Last Trade Time:	11/21/2008 11:04 AM
Open:	$20.99
Previous Close:	$20.60
Daily Range:	$20.08 - $21.69
52-Week Range:	$17.94 - $45.13
Volume:	192,286
Market Cap:	$520.89M
P/E Ratio:	9.58
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Government keeps 11-hour limit on truckers hours
11/18/2008 4:01:00 PM - AP
Sector Snap: Less-than-truckload carriers
11/12/2008 2:49:00 PM - AP
Truckers hold earlier gains after Fed rate cut
10/29/2008 2:48:00 PM - AP
Ahead of the Bell: Goldman cautious on truckers
10/28/2008 9:09:00 AM - AP

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Avatar mtthwpigott (98.61) Submitted: 2/11/07 10:03 PM

this company has some very good profit scores from last year for being a trucking company. I know that they move millions of freight more a day than most of its competitors. Plus they are competing with J. B. Hunt so they have to keep up. Expect a split in the future to keep up.

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Avatar sunnybrasil (81.09) Submitted: 5/14/08 1:33 PM

Stock overvalued at this time

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Recs 0 (ABFS) ETFinnovators (69.37) Submitted: 11/16/08 5:26 PM : Start Price: $23.75 ABFS Score: 1.18 An Index of Top Rated Global Transport Companies The accompanying table includes the top 50 rated companies and statistics for the ETF Innovators (ETFI) Global Transportation PerformIdex, which is structured as an equally-weighted index with quarterly updates from a database of 225 companies included in the following five indexes: 1.) ETFI Global Air Transport 2.) ETFI Global Personal Transport 3.) ETFI Global Maritime Transport 4.) ETFI Global Railroad Industry 5.) ETFI Global Trucking & Logistics The index is structured to include 15 companies each from railroads + trucking & logistics, 10 companies from air transport, and five companies each from maritime + personal transport. The trucking & logistics group has posted strong results over the past year in spite of the weak global economy and has been aided by declining fuel prices, including gains of about 50% for Marten Transport (MRTN) and nearly 10% each for Werner Enterprises (WERN) and C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW). The Personal Transport Index includes auto makers such as Honda (HMC), motorcycle makers such as Harley Davidson (HOG), recreational vehicles such as Polaris (PII) – although the top five rated companies are auto makers at this time, led by Volkswagen (VLKAY). Within the Maritime Transport Index, the only bright spot has been Nordic American Tanker (NAT), which is the only company whose stock price has increased in the last year as the entire group has been decimated – with the new Claymore/Delta Global Shipping ETF down 55% since its inception in early September. The Railroad Index has also posted strong results in the past year and it remains to be seen whether the major rail transport companies can maintain pricing power in the face of a global economic slowdown and less "stuff" to move around. Some of the top rated railroad companies in the index include Warren Buffett favorite Burlington Northern (BNI) along with the other major U.S. rail transport companies Union Pacific (UNP), CSX Corp (CSX), and Norfolk Southern (NSC). The Air Transport Index includes mostly passenger airlines, in addition to helicopter transport and air freight companies such as Atlas Air Worldwide (AAWW). The top 10 rated companies include top performers such as Hawaiian Airlines (HA) and Allegiant Travel (ALGT), low fare airline JetBlue Airways (JBLU), and the biggest companies in the industry such as Singapore Airlines (SINGF) and Southwest Airlines (LUV). Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (ABFS) kurtdabear (99.54) Submitted: 9/15/08 9:49 PM : Start Price: $35.52 ABFS Score: 5.10 A decrease in gas and diesel prices really doesn't help trucking firms if they don't have freight to haul, and even good ones like ABFS won't beat the current downturn. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (ABFS) sunnybrasil (81.09) Submitted: 5/14/08 1:33 PM : Start Price: $40.34 ABFS Score: 0.95 Stock overvalued at this time Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 1 (ABFS) deuspecuniae (88.79) Submitted: 4/25/08 5:39 PM : Start Price: $38.30 ABFS Score: -0.94 A recessions a coming this summer and high oil prices are not going away since the falling dollar is to blame, and continued inflation is not going to bring the value of the dollar up any time soon. Burnanke was not helping this country by bailing out the crust of American society. Also, Bush's stimulus package didn't help the upward inflationary pressure that is killing this countries middle class. Sorry about my rant but anyway my point is to sell trucking since rail is about to take over from the high price of fuel. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (ABFS) 92557 (< 20) Submitted: 3/15/08 1:17 AM : Start Price: $28.86 ABFS Score: 13.14 Very tight fisted management that will fit well with the slowing economy when compared to most other carriers. No debt load to speak of, and almost 100% ownership of hard assets. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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