Supply chain radar: JB Hunt – great problems to have in the glory days
It is decision time now for JB Hunt, which opens the earnings season.
US forwarder CH Robinson had a mixed bag of results in 2020, with Q4 and full-year financials out last week.
The core North American Surface Transportation unit limped to little more than a flat year.
But in Forwarding, Robinson went from strength to strength (our Premium take here).
In the customary post-results conference call between management and the analyst community, the analysts were, in fact, not allowed to speak.
Instead, questions were pre-submitted (as usual).
Yawn.
Inevitably, the answers went on a bit and as usual, ...
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