Posted on 08/23/2011 11:34:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t know. I was looking into transports after you mentioned it, thinking they should be down in this economy. Good contrarian longer term play. I was checking out TAL. They do container shipping.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=tal&ql=1
Good dividend. Healthy P/E.
Don’t know anything about rails. I like FedEx as a company. I respect Fred Smith a lot. P/E is a little high, and the dividend sucks.
No tobacco companies. Too risky, and probably a shrinking market.
Shrinking market here yes, not worldwide.
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