Why FedEx Stock Is Down By 8% Today
The stock is trying to settle below the $230 level.www.google.com
FedEx stock has been getting hammered due to margin erosion. At the heart of this is higher wage rates due to the labor supply crunch.
To assure these losses don't continue, they announced increases of roughly 6% to 8% on deliveries.
Hmm.
Higher wages = Higher Prices ???
This is my shocked face:
FYI - UPS announces earnings on 10/26
Higher Wages?
Lol my buddy who works there was just complaining to me about workers only getting a 2% raise, despite big wigs coming in and giving speeches about record profits / numbers earlier in the year and telling them they were front line hero's...Buddy was pissed said he was going to UPS..?
Apparently the increase in wages was in Memphis at their central Hub where they are having troubles finding help mainly because Amazon build a massive facility next door and offered a starting wage nearly matching a FedEx Employee wage who had been working for FedEx for 10 years.
Explained to me that FedEx has an Express and a Ground network that they operate as separate entities...Yet have same uniform / same logo / colors.
Ground who handles the "majority" of FedEx Deliveries hires the contracted workers so they don't have to pay them benefits.
Sounds like FedEx is trying to Milk this Pandemic to the max by screwing the customer right before Christmas arrives...