Saturday, December 15, 2007

Investing in the Courier, Express, and Postal Market

Publicly traded firms in this market space now includes 10 firms that American investors can easily track. These firms can be grouped as follows:

Express and Parcel Carriers
  • United Parcel Service
  • FedEx
Integrated Mail, Express, and Parcel Carriers
  • Deutsche Post
  • TNT
  • Oesterrich Post
Local, Same-day, and Dedicated Couriers
  • Dynamex
  • Velocity Express
Subcontractors
  • ABX Air
  • Air T
All of these companies can be tracked on Yahoo Finance easily. Yahoo provides stock price information including information for the publicly traded European posts. Unfortunately, Yahoo Finance does not provide news for the firms not traded on US exchanges. For news on at least Deutsche Post you can go to the UK version.

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