Why the Holidays Aren’t Merry for UPS and FedEx

You might expect that the holiday quarter would be the best period of the year for UPS (NYSE: UPS) and FedEx (NYSE: FDX) -- but the two shipping giants consistently lose a pretty big chunk of margin during the busy period.

In this week's episode of Industry Focus: Energy, analysts Sarah Priestley and Adam-Levine Weinberg dig into why that is. Find out why the holidays are a logistical nightmare for these companies, and how they're working to fix that; how much of a threat Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) proposed delivery service is to the incumbents; why retailers across the board are running into trouble with shipping costs; which company is the better buy today; and more.

A full transcript follows the video.

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