Hottest Transportation Stocks Now – DAL LSTR KNX UAL
by Portfolio Grader | July 23, 2014 11:45 am
Transportation stocks advanced broadly on Wall Street on Wednesday morning, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.2%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stayed level, the Nasdaq was up 0.3% and the S&P 500 stayed the same.
Some of the biggest gainers among transportation stocks include:
- Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL[1]): DAL stock is up 3.1% today.
- Landstar System (LSTR[2]): LSTR stock is up 3.2% today.
- Knight Transportation (KNX[3]): KNX stock is up 2.2% today.
- United Continental Holdings (UAL[4]): UAL stock is up 1.9% today.
- Heartland Express (HTLD[5]): HTLD stock is up 1.7% today.
- China Southern Airlines Company (ZNH[6]): ZNH stock is up 1.5% today.
- Swift Transportation Company (SWFT[7]): SWFT stock is up 1.3% today.
- Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU[8]): JBLU stock is up 1.1% today.
- Spirit Airlines Inc (SAVE[9]): SAVE stock is up 0.9% today.
- Southwest Airlines Company (LUV[10]): LUV stock is up 1.2% today.
Some of the biggest losers among transportation stocks include:
- Forward Air Corp (FWRD[11]): FWRD stock is down 0.9% today.
- Gulfmark Offshore (GLF[12]): GLF stock is down 2.1%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Teekay Lng Partners L.P. (TGP[13]): TGP stock is down 1.9% today.
- Hornbeck Offshore Services (HOS[14]): HOS stock is down 1.0% today.
- Scorpio Tankers Inc (STNG[15]): STNG stock is down 1.4% today.
- Con-Way Inc (CNW[16]): CNW stock is down 0.6% today.
- CSX Corp (CSX[17]): CSX stock is down 0.5% today.
- Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII[18]): HII stock is down 0.5% today.
- Teekay Shipping Corp (TK[19]): TK stock is down 0.4%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- GATX Corp (GMT[20]): GMT stock is down 0.2% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
Endnotes:
- DAL: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/DAL-stock-quote
- LSTR: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/LSTR-stock-quote
- KNX: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/KNX-stock-quote
- UAL: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/UAL-stock-quote
- HTLD: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/HTLD-stock-quote
- ZNH: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/ZNH-stock-quote
- SWFT: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/SWFT-stock-quote
- JBLU: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/JBLU-stock-quote
- SAVE: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/SAVE-stock-quote
- LUV: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/LUV-stock-quote
- FWRD: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/FWRD-stock-quote
- GLF: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/GLF-stock-quote
- TGP: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/TGP-stock-quote
- HOS: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/HOS-stock-quote
- STNG: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/STNG-stock-quote
- CNW: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/CNW-stock-quote
- CSX: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/CSX-stock-quote
- HII: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/HII-stock-quote
- TK: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/TK-stock-quote
- GMT: https://investorplace.com/stock-quotes/GMT-stock-quote
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