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It's the Motley Fool Money radio show. I'm Chris Held joining me this week senior analyst Jason Moser and Ron Gross. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.

How are you doing Chris? We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street, retirement expert Ed Slott is our guest and as always we've got a couple of stocks on our radar.

But we begin with a bell weather stock. FedEx had what they called an unprecedented holiday shipping season.

Third quarter profits in revenue were higher than expected and shares of FedEx were up 7% on Friday.

And Ron, it wasn't just a great quarter. The guidance from Fred Smith was pretty positive as well.

Strong report with increased margins, I think, really being the highlight here.

Shares are up 214% from the March lows and it's going to be really interesting because we're starting to anniversary the lows of March 2019, the COVID lows.

So it's going to be really interesting to compare how companies have rebounded versus the lows as well as where they were pre-COVID.

But this is a really strong report revenue up 23%. Now that's primarily due to both strong volume growth and higher prices.

So you get the double whammy there and the higher prices were across all transportation segments, which is also pretty strong.

As I mentioned earlier, operating margins really the story here, why didn't significantly on strength and the ground segments specifically and that's thanks to higher prices.

Growth was partially offset by some costs to support that strong demand, higher labor rates as we're seeing in a lot of businesses.

Now, if you'll recall, there was some severe winter weather in February down south that reduced operating income by about $350 million.

So not in consequential at all. Nothing you can really do about it.

So it's interesting from just an investor analytical perspective to take that into account.

Adjusted earnings almost tripled. As you said, strong guidance citing great momentum, quote, great momentum coming out of Q3.

Management said e-commerce will grow faster than it projected just six months ago estimating 101 million packages per day in 2022 with 86% of that coming from e-commerce.

Really strong report still trading only 15 to 16 times earnings again. It's not a technology company. So we necessarily shouldn't expect really high fly in multiples, but that's not too bad 15, 16 times for a company that finally I think has its act together both on the pricing and the cost angle.

Ron, you mentioned we're about to come into all of these comps from March of 2020 on.

When you hear the guidance from FedEx. I don't know, it sort of gives me optimism that these great digital sales numbers we've been seeing from.

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