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Shipping Stocks To Keep An Eye On - September 21st

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Key Points

  • United Parcel Service (UPS), Blackstone, and Shopify are identified as the top shipping stocks to monitor due to their significant trading volume recently.
  • UPS specializes in package delivery and logistics, operating in both U.S. domestic and international markets with multiple service offerings including air and ground transportation.
  • Blackstone is an alternative asset management firm focusing on investments in real estate and private equity, while Shopify provides a comprehensive e-commerce platform for merchants across various global markets.
  • MarketBeat previews the top five stocks to own by October 1st.

United Parcel Service, Blackstone, 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 cargo vessels—such as container ships, bulk carriers and tankers—and provide maritime freight services. Their revenues and share prices tend to be highly cyclical, reflecting shifts in global trade volumes, freight rates and fuel costs. Investors buy these stocks to gain exposure to the shipping industry’s supply-and-demand dynamics. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Shipping stocks within the last several days.

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.

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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.

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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.

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