Why Are People Talking About Investing in XPO?

By Harris Dyer • Tuesday, February 07 15:00 • Permanent Link

With gains of 4.4%, XPO Logistics was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $44.51 and have logged a 0.9% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

XPO Logistics has moved 11.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -9.1%
XPO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -10.57% away from its mean target price of $49.77 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $8.3
XPO Logistics has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 5.4 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.14 and its forward P/E ratio is 14.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.9 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
XPO Logistics is part of the Industrials sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.49 and an average P/B of 3.78
The company has a free cash flow of $443,750,016.00, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
XPO Inc. provides freight transportation services in the United States, rest of North America, France, the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, and internationally. The company operates in two segments, North American LTL and Brokerage and Other Services. The North American LTL segment provides customers with less-than-truckload (LTL) services, such as geographic density and day-definite regional, inter-regional, and transcontinental LTL freight services. This segment also offers cross-border U.S. service to and from Mexico and Canada, as well as intra-Canada service. The Brokerage and Other Services segment offers last mile logistics for heavy goods sold through e-commerce, omnichannel retail, and direct-to-consumer channels, as well as other non-core brokered freight transportation modes. It provides its services to customers in various industries, such as industrial and manufacturing, retail and e-commerce, food and beverage, logistics and transportation, and consumer goods. The company was formerly known as XPO Logistics, Inc. XPO Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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