TNT set to expand Fedex profits

Article Excerpt

FEDEX CORP. $270 (New York symbol FDX; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 267.4 million; Market cap: $72.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2; Dividend yield: 0.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.fedex.com) delivers packages in the U.S. and 220 other countries. Its fleet of 170,000 trucks and 660 aircraft handle 14 million packages a day. . On May 25, 2016, the company completed its $4.9 billion acquisition of TNT Express NV. That Netherlands-based courier operates across Europe. The deal makes FedEx the second-largest courier on that continent after United Parcel Service. To integrate the TNT operations, the company expects to spend a total of $1.4 billion over the next four years. However, savings from combining its businesses should add $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion to FedEx’s annual operating income starting in 2020. To put that in perspective, the company’s operating income was $5.4 billion for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2017. FedEx is a buy. buy…