10 Best Transportation Stocks To Invest In Right Now

10 Best Transportation Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Union Pacific Corporation(UNP)

Union Pacific Corporation, through its subsidiary, Union Pacific Railroad Company, provides rail transportation services in North America. It has approximately 31,953 route miles linking Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast ports with the Midwest and eastern United States gateways, and provides several corridors to Mexican gateways. The company offers freight transportation services for agricultural products, including whole grains and related commodities, food, beverage products, corn for ethanol products and its by-products, animal feeds, fruits and vegetables, frozen meat, and poultry products; and automotive products, such as imported and finished vehicles, and automotive parts and materials. It also provides transportation services for chemicals, such as industrial chemicals, plastics, and liquid petroleum products; energy products comprising coal and coke; industrial products, including lumber products, paper and consumer goods, furniture and appliances, and nonferrous and i ndustrial minerals, as well as steel and construction products, such as rock, cement, and roofing materials; and intermodal containers. Union Pacific Corporation was founded in 1862 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Asit Sharma]

  Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP  )
  The largest U.S. rail transportation company should be able to reap benefits from a rising U.S. economy. In 2012, the company's overall volume was flat due to weakness in coal and agricultural shipments (as a result of drought conditions across the western United States), which offset strength in other segments such as automobile, chemical, and oil shipments.However, Union Pacific managed to increase revenue by 7%, to $20.9 billion, through stronger pricing and fuel surcharges. The higher revenue, coupled with productivity gains, led to record net income of $6.75 billion, outpacing the prior year's net income by 18! %.

• [By Alex Planes]

  Standardization and consolidation greatly improved the quality of rail service during this period, and three more transcontinental railroads (following the completion of the first in 1869) had also been built in the two years prior to the publication of the Transportation Index. Two of these transcontinental railroad operators, the Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP  ) , were part of the first index, and when Dow expanded the index to 14 components a year later, the Central Pacific (the western half that joined Union Pacific in building the 1869 transcontinental line) also became a component. Dow eventually settled on 12 components in 1886; this would inform the construction of the Industrial Average when it was first published a decade later.

• [By Chuck Saletta]

  The news isn't always good
  Of course, not every stock gained, and the biggest loss in the IPIG portfolio for the week goes to the two-stock railroad combo of CSX (NYSE: CSX  ) and Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP  ) . Both reported solid earnings that propelled their shares to gains for the prior week's IPIG review. Still, lousy earnings numbers this week from a competitor on weak coal shipments served as a reminder of how dependent railroads are on that single commodity. That news was enough to drive the IPIG's railroads down on the week.

• [By Wallace Witkowski]

  Industrials also play a large role in the coming week with Honeywell International Inc. (HON) , Textron Inc. (TXT) , CSX Corp. (CSX) , Union Pacific Corp. (UNP) and General Electric Co. (GE) reporting.

source from Top Penny Stocks For 2015:http://www.topstocksforum.com/10-best-transportation-stocks-to-invest-in-right-now.html