Union Pacific Looks Attractive With 5 Positive Trends

Michael Hooper
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Summary

  • Union Pacific has recently exhibited five positive trends that make its stock look attractive at current prices.
  • The five trends are steady-to-growing volumes in the first 18 weeks of the year, higher pricing, a fuel surcharge, a dividend over 2%, and a stock buyback program.
  • Risks includes the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic in China, where so much of our imports come from, and inflation.
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Union Pacific (NYSE:UNP) has recently exhibited five positive trends that make its stock look attractive at current prices.

The five trends are steady-to-growing volumes in the first 18 weeks of the year; higher pricing; a fuel surcharge; a dividend over 2% and a stock

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Michael Hooper is a freelance writer and value investor, whose first stock was Motorola in 1993. Over 30 years, his portfolio has evolved into a collection of consumer defensive stocks, railroads, Berkshire Hathaway and S&P 500. In 1997, he asked Warren Buffett about his view of tobacco stocks at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and got a prolific response from Buffett and Charlie Munger. Michael worked 20 years as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Kansas and Nebraska. Michael is a published author: The Wonderment Years: Odyssey of a Bohemian and A Painter in Paris, both on Amazon.

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