Arkansas Best Corp

• What to Do With This Industry?

  By Zain Abbas - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: ABFS, JBHT, WERN

  J.B. Hunt will inaugurate the earnings season for truck transportation stocks on April 11. The following note gives a brief earnings preview of three trucking companies, which will help us to understand the industry in a better fashion.

  Arkansas Best (NASDAQ: ABFS)

  Arkansas Best is a transportation holding company serving more than 98% of cities in the U.S. with populations of 30,000 or more. Through its main more »

• What’s Driving Heartland America? (Part 2)

  By Marshall Hargrave - January 30, 2013 | Tickers: ABFS, CHRW, CNW, JBHT, ODFL, UNP

  What’s Driving Heartland America? (Part 2)

  Where the rail companies are expected to get a boost from a rebounding economy, so should the trucking companies. As the U.S. starts to see some steadying of its economy, we should see an increase in products moving across America. Trucking companies are one of the key transporters of these products. The top trucking companies moving across the U.S. include: J more »

• This Shipping Company Looks Cheap

  By Ted Cooper - January 2, 2013 | Tickers: ABFS, ODFL

  Low margin, capital intensive businesses usually turn out to be the worst investments in any given year. However, occasionally these businesses will trade at a price low enough to become interesting as an investment instead of a speculation. This is the case with Arkansas Best Corporation (NASDAQ: ABFS), one of the largest less-than-truckload (LTL) shippers in the United States. The company competes with the likes of FedEx and UPS, which more »