Comment / On the wires: The earnings season opens – downside risk fully apparent

Whether trucking and intermodal company JB Hunt (JBHT) actually tops your interest in logistics doesn’t matter at all, yet stock market reaction to its formidable Q4 21/annual update should.

Opening this earnings season in supply chain (yippee-ki-yay ******!), JB Hunt management pulled out all the stops to make sure that the investor community would be pleased to hear the story. It worked.

But only to a limited extent – a lesson, perhaps, for all of you preparing to face the jury’s verdict ...