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Promising Shipping Stocks To Watch Now - September 11th

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Key Points

  • Blackstone, United Parcel Service (UPS), and Shopify have emerged as the top shipping stocks to monitor, showing the highest trading volume recently.
  • Shipping stocks are influenced by global trade flows and are sensitive to fluctuations in freight rates, making them cyclical assets.
  • UPS specializes in package delivery and logistics services, operating within U.S. Domestic and International segments for efficient dispatch of goods.
  • Interested in Blackstone? Here are five stocks we like better.

Blackstone, United Parcel Service, and Shopify are the three Shipping stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Shipping stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that operate vessels and provide maritime transport services, including container shipping, bulk carriers, tankers, and roll-on/roll-off ships. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to global trade flows and fuel price fluctuations, since a carrier’s profitability often hinges on freight rates and operating costs. As cyclical assets, shipping stocks can be highly sensitive to economic conditions, trade volumes, and regulatory developments. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Shipping stocks within the last several days.

Blackstone (BX)

Blackstone Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The firm typically invests in early-stage companies. It also provide capital markets services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BX

United Parcel Service (UPS)

United Parcel Service, Inc., a package delivery company, provides transportation and delivery, distribution, contract logistics, ocean freight, airfreight, customs brokerage, and insurance services. It operates through two segments, U.S. Domestic Package and International Package. The U.S. Domestic Package segment offers time-definite delivery of express letters, documents, small packages, and palletized freight through air and ground services in the United States.

Read Our Latest Research Report on UPS

Shopify (SHOP)

Shopify Inc., a commerce company, provides a commerce platform and services in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Australia, China, and Latin America. The company's platform enables merchants to displays, manages, markets, and sells its products through various sales channels, including web and mobile storefronts, physical retail locations, pop-up shops, social media storefronts, native mobile apps, buy buttons, and marketplaces; and enables to manage products and inventory, process orders and payments, fulfill and ship orders, new buyers and build customer relationships, source products, leverage analytics and reporting, manage cash, payments and transactions, and access financing.

Read Our Latest Research Report on SHOP

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