Bloomberg/file 2012 Enlarge Image A truck carries a J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. intermodal container enters the U.S. from Mexico at San Diego. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., Packaging Corp. of America., and Brown & Brown Inc.
J.B. Hunt Transport (JBHT) is projected to report third-quarter earnings of 78 cents a share, according to a consensus survey by Thomson Reuters.
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"We would become more aggressive with J.B. Hunt on any material pullback as we believe its integrated multimodal service platform stands to benefit from increasing truck regulations," Chaz Jones, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities, said in a note.
PCA, the Packaging Corp. of America (PKG) , is likely to post third-quarter earnings of 89 cents a share. The company said last month it would buy Boise Inc. (BZ) for $12.55 a share, or about $1.28 billion in total. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Lake Forest, Ill.-based PCA makes a wide line of linerboard and corrugated paper packaging products at four mills and 71 plants, according to its website.
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Brown & Brown (BRO) is forecast to report earnings of 40 cents a share in the third quarter. In the second quarter, the insurer and the brokerage reported its profit jumped to 36 cents a share from 29 cents a year earlier.
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