UPS Trouncing FedEx Stock as CEO’s $20 Billion Bet Bears Fruit

  • Courier sees $20 billion spending plan starting to bear fruit
  • ‘What you can’t do is put your head in the sand,’ Abney says
CEO David Abney walks at UPS headquarters outside Atlanta.

Photographer: Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Not that long ago, Wall Street fretted that tradition-bound United Parcel Service Inc. would lag nimble FedEx Corp., with its fully automated package-sorting hubs, in the race to cash in from surging shipments tied to e-commerce.

It hasn’t turned out that way.