Transportation stocks finished up 0.8% on Wall Street on Thursday.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.5%, the Nasdaq pushed 1.6% higher and the S&P 500 climbed 0.5%.
Some of the biggest gainers among transportation stocks include:
- Golar Lng Partners LP (GMLP): GMLP stock is up 2.2% today.
- Swift Transportation Company (SWFT): SWFT stock is up 1.6% today.
- Alaska Air Group (ALK): ALK stock is up 1.4% today.
- Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL): ODFL stock is up 1.3% today.
- Wabtec Corp (WAB): WAB stock is up 1.1% today.
- CSX Corp (CSX): CSX stock is up 1.1% today.
- Southwest Airlines Company (LUV): LUV stock is up 1.1% today.
- Seacor Smit Inc (CKH): CKH stock is up 1.0% today.
- C.H. Robinson Worldwide (CHRW): CHRW stock is up 0.9% today.
- Jetblue Airways Corp (JBLU): JBLU stock is up 0.9% today.
Some of the biggest losers among transportation stocks include:
- Ship Finance International (SFL): SFL stock is down 1.6% today on 2 times normal volume.
- Teekay Shipping Corp (TK): TK stock is down 1.5% today.
- Express-1 Expedited Solutions (XPO): XPO stock is down 1.0% today.
- Canadian Pacific Railway (CP): CP stock is down 0.8% today.
- GATX Corp (GMT): GMT stock is down 0.6% today.
- Con-Way Inc (CNW): CNW stock is down 0.3% today.
- Macquarie Infrastructure Company Trust (MIC): MIC stock is down 0.3% today.
- Landstar System (LSTR): LSTR stock is down 0.1%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
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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.
