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Arkansas Best Corp (ABFS)

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The Company is engaged through its subsidiaries primarily in motor carrier transportation operations. The principal subsidiaries of the Company are ABF Freight System, Inc. and FleetNet America, Inc.

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Small Cap (1645), Value (1901), Road and Rail (35), Arkansas (8), Hard Asset (1002), Industrials (718)
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Arkansas Best Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $21.99
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $21.96
Previous Close: $21.60
Daily Range: $21.60 - $22.49
52-Week Range: $15.84 - $34.56
Volume: 390,646
Market Cap: $556.06M
P/E Ratio: 256.60
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Avatar ViolentCapital (97.36) Submitted: 1/14/09 3:55 PM

looks oversold now and potentially 50% undervalued, lack of debt lowers fixed costs, they have the flexibility on all ends to make it through this rut.

They also dont lease many trucks either

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Avatar srk85 (53.71) Submitted: 2/26/09 5:12 PM

Overvalued compared to industry.

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Avatar mrindependent (99.29) Submitted: 1/27/10 10:51 AM : Outperform Start Price: $26.32 ABFS Score: -14.62

Arkansas Best is a trucking company that has been losing money recently. Fortunately, the company's balance sheet is solid. Over the longer haul, this company tends to generate decent returns on equity and in normal economic environments it trades for more than 1.5 times book value. This company's share price has been pummeled recently based on declining expectations for the economy and decreasing earnings estimates for this company in particular. After the recent selloff, Arkansas Best is available for 1.1 times book value. I think the selloff was overdone and I expect a near term bounce.

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Avatar srk85 (53.71) Submitted: 2/26/09 5:12 PM : Underperform Start Price: $17.26 ABFS Score: 20.03

Overvalued compared to industry.

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Avatar kurtdabear (97.93) Submitted: 9/15/08 9:49 PM : Underperform Start Price: $34.65 ABFS Score: 30.88

A decrease in gas and diesel prices really doesn't help trucking firms if they don't have freight to haul, and even good ones like ABFS won't beat the current downturn.

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Avatar deuspecuniae (73.90) Submitted: 4/25/08 5:39 PM : Underperform Start Price: $37.36 ABFS Score: 20.67

A recessions a coming this summer and high oil prices are not going away since the falling dollar is to blame, and continued inflation is not going to bring the value of the dollar up any time soon. Burnanke was not helping this country by bailing out the crust of American society. Also, Bush's stimulus package didn't help the upward inflationary pressure that is killing this countries middle class. Sorry about my rant but anyway my point is to sell trucking since rail is about to take over from the high price of fuel.

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Avatar 92557 (< 20) Submitted: 3/15/08 1:17 AM : Outperform Start Price: $28.16 ABFS Score: -10.19

Very tight fisted management that will fit well with the slowing economy when compared to most other carriers. No debt load to speak of, and almost 100% ownership of hard assets.

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