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UPS is a value Buy for long-term investors, with margin-driven upside potential but significant execution and macro risks to monitor. Key risks include Amazon volume loss, restructuring execution, tariff headwinds, and intensifying competition from FedEx and Amazon's logistics arm. Strategic healthcare logistics expansion and aggressive cost restructuring aim to offset revenue declines and drive higher long-term margins.

We rate UPS Strong Buy with a $158 price target, seeing 59% upside as the market underappreciates its margin reset and efficiency transformation. UPS's $3.5bn cost-out program, network automation, and deliberate exit from low-margin Amazon volumes will drive structural margin expansion and EBITDA outperformance. Our above-consensus EBITDA estimates reflect confidence in cost execution, margin mix, and resilient international performance, with risks centered on execution and macro headwinds.

With the stock market recovery in full swing, investors may be wondering if it's time to get back in the higher-yielding dividend plays that are still well off their all-time highs as a “catch-up” trade of sorts.

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UPS remains undervalued with a P/S ratio near multi-year lows, reflecting excessive market pessimism. Q1 results were mixed: revenue dipped but beat expectations, while EPS and margins improved. Guidance for Q2 is weak with further revenue declines expected. However, these projections are not extraordinarily poor vs. the previous three years.

There are three secular trends coinciding and creating a confluence of long-term tailwinds for United Parcel Service. UPS's 10-year dividend growth rate is 9.3%, although this was skewed higher by a ~50% dividend boost in early 2022. UPS moved its revenue from $58.4 billion in FY 2015 to $91.1 billion in FY 2024. That's a compound annual growth rate of 5.1%.

Three Fortune 500 Industry Leaders—Energy Transfer, Verizon, and World Kinect—currently meet the 'dogcatcher' ideal of fair price and safer dividends. Analyst targets project 21% to 50% net gains for the top ten F500IL dividend dogs by June 2026, with average gains of 28.8%. Most top-yielding F500IL stocks remain overpriced, but a 60% market correction or dividend increases could make all ten fairly priced for income investors. Twelve F500IL stocks have negative free cash flow margins, making them unsafe for dividends; focus on the three 'safer' fair-priced options for now.

During times of turbulence and uncertainty in the markets, many investors turn to dividend-yielding stocks. These are often companies that have high free cash flows and reward shareholders with a high dividend payout.

Generating high dividend income can be tricky, because you don't want to just load up on stocks with the highest yields. That can result in disappointment later on, because if those high dividend payments aren't safe, they could end up getting cut or suspended entirely.

Dividend growth stocks can provide stable, growing income, making them ideal for long-term investors despite lacking the excitement of headline-grabbing returns. My screening focuses on higher-yielding stocks, trying to find those with dividend safety and consistent growth. We also touch on the option wheel strategy today, as two of the names we'll be giving a look at are ones we employ the strategy on.