Transports At New Highs; A Look At Its Members

Below we highlight a one-year chart of the Dow Jones Transportation Index.  As shown below, the Transports have been on fire recently, even with JetBlue, Continental Airlines and AMR part of the 20-member index.

As shown, 16 of the 20 stocks that make up the Transports index are up on the year, with Ryder Systems (R) up the most at 63%.  CSX, BNI, GMT, NSC, LSTR and JBHT are all up more than 30% as well.  The average estimated '08 P/E ratio of members in the index that have P/E ratios is 21.24.  The stock with the lowest estimated P/E is OSG at 10.28, followed by GMT (14.72) and ALEX.

 

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