Companies Reporting Before The Bell
• LendingTree (NASDAQ:TREE) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.57 per share on revenue of $292.63 million.
In a Monday note to clients, Morgan Stanley analyst Ravi Shanker identified three key themes for the third-quarter earnings season, which begins Oct. 15 when J.B. Hunt reports. Hurricane Ida's impact on the period, 2022 rate expectations and labor issues throughout peak season are the areas that will get the most attention, according to Shanker.
TFI International bought UPS Freight with plans to make the LTL carrier "lean and mean," a turn of phrase CEO Alain Bédard likes to use. While the company is implementing that strategy, including recent cuts to salespeople, one thing it needs more of is truck drivers.
Cowen & Co. analyst Jason Seidl updated ratings and price targets for few trucking industry companies.
Seidl states the consensus view appears to be underestimating the trucking industry's pricing power in 2022 and sees pricing to be up by a mid-single digits percentage.
Over the past 3 months, 8 analysts have published their opinion on TFI International (NYSE:TFII) stock. These analysts are typically employed by large Wall Street banks and tasked with understanding a company's business to predict how a stock will trade over the upcoming year.
The five-year contract between the Teamsters and UPS Inc., the Teamsters' largest employer with 268,000 members, doesn't expire until July 31, 2023. Talks aren't likely to start until late 2022. In reality, however, the contract cycle starts around Thanksgiving 2021.
Companies Reporting Before The Bell
• Otis Worldwide (NYSE:OTIS) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $0.71 per share on revenue of $3.45 billion.