Friday, September 11, 2009

FedEx Exponential Volume Helping Comps (FDX, UPS, EXPD, UTIW)

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) is surging on its announcement that it raised guidance.  At 11:02 AM EST we have a 7.3% gain to $78.00 and we have already crossed over 4.75 million shares.  That is getting close to 150% of its average volume and is triple what we have normally seen by this time in the morning.  The 52-week trading range here is $34.02 to $96.65, but this was north of $100.00 less than two years ago.  Just to show how much this one has risen of late, the 50-day moving average is $64.85 and the 200-day moving average is $56.45.  This move today takes the stock to levels not seen since last October, and technically it looks like each dollar up is a move into relatively new territory.  This has now run 130% or more since the lows during that panic selling wave in early March.

The secondary direct play off of this is United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), with a 4% gain to $58.68 and the 4.3 million share average daily volume has just been crossed.  Its 52-week trading range is $37.99 to $70.00.  Our other lesser stocks in the group which we use to track this are Expeditors International of Washington Inc.    (NASDAQ: EXPD) and UTI Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: UTIW), both of which are up close to 4% but on surprisingly low trading volume.

-JON OGG


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