Brooke Sutherland, Columnist

A Bed Bugs and Roach Killer Is Thriving in 2020

A top-performing industrial stock this year is a pest-control company, and the Orkin man is on its payroll.

February 7, 2020 at 8:09 PM UTC

Brooke Sutherland is Bloomberg News' Boston bureau chief and writes the Industrial Strength Newsletter. She was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies and an M&A reporter for Bloomberg News.

Call the Orkin man. — Call the Orkin man.
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Manufacturers have been been plagued by a number of pests this earnings season, from a lingering slowdown and economic uncertainty to Boeing Co.’s 737 Max troubles and the burgeoning coronavirus crisis. So it’s oddly fitting that the best-performing stock on the S&P 500’s Industrial Index through this reporting season was a pest-control company.