JPMorgan analyst Brian Ossenbeck lowered the firm’s price target on ArcBest to $164 from $168 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares as part of a Q1 earnings preview for the transportation and logistics group. Freight demand steadily improved over the last year with more recent signs of recovering industrial activity along with continued strength in U.S. containerized imports that increased again month-over-month in March, the analyst tells investors in a research note. However, the firm says you wouldn’t know it speaking to truckload, intermodal, and brokerage companies, which face lingering excess capacity in the market, and the recent signs of net capacity gains “only add insult to injury.” JPMorgan We expects the vast majority of its coverage “will hang on to their existing guidance.”
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