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FedEx$FDX · filed: grew revenue 7.7% in FY2026 to $94.7BSound shipTrillion Score 514Fall Risk LowNext year $87.7B–$104.7B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What FedEx filed
Grew revenue 7.7% in FY2026 to $94.7 billion, operating margin 5.8% against a 2.4% median for air courier services, equity 32.0% of assets, and dividend per share up 2 years running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on FedEx’s card. Sound ship: one warning sign. Trillion Score 514, #6 of 15 in its field; Fall Risk Low (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2026-05-31 between $87.7B and $104.7B, an 80% range sealed on 26 Sept 2026 · receipt #896428 · graded in public by the revenue in FedEx’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
FedEx handed its **$9.4 billion** Freight unit independence, lifting parent margins **190 basis points** and creating the largest pure LTL public stock.
$9.4 billion
in trailing twelve-month revenue
410
service centers across the continent
$78 billion
revenue business stripped of its lowest-margin legacy unit
8.7 percent
pro forma
FedEx Corporation closed its separation of FedEx Freight on Thursday, creating the largest standalone publicly traded less-than-truckload carrier in North America. The newly independent entity holds $9.4 billion in trailing twelve-month revenue, 32,000 employees, and 410 service centers across the continent. FedEx Corp retains Express and Ground operations under the parent structure, now a $78 billion revenue business stripped of its lowest-margin legacy unit.
The spin distributes one share of FedEx Freight common stock for every one share of FedEx Corp held as of the March 24 record date. FedEx Freight begins trading Monday under ticker RXO on the New York Stock Exchange. The parent company's adjusted operating margin rises 190 basis points to 8.7 percent pro forma, reflecting the removal of Freight's 6.1 percent segment margin from consolidated results. FedEx Corp's debt load drops $2.1 billion as Freight assumes its proportionate share of legacy obligations. The separation costs FedEx $680 million in one-time transaction expenses, already reflected in Q3 2025 financials.
The move reshapes North American logistics allocation at a moment when LTL pricing power has returned after eighteen months of rate compression. FedEx Freight exits with a 93.2 percent average load factor and 11.4 percent year-over-year yield growth in the quarter preceding separation. The standalone entity holds no exposure to the $4.2 billion annual losses FedEx Express has absorbed on international e-commerce volume since 2022. Allocators gain a pure bet on domestic commercial freight without subsidizing the parent's costly Boeing 767 fleet replacement or its $1.8 billion annual technology spend on last-mile automation.
FedEx Freight's independence eliminates the capital allocation tension that has suppressed its reinvestment rate for six years. The parent company funneled 68 percent of consolidated free cash flow into Express and Ground automation since 2019, leaving Freight with terminal infrastructure that averages 31 years old. The new board, led by former J.B. Hunt executive Shelley Simpson, has signaled $800 million in annual maintenance capex and a three-year terminal modernization program. Old Dominion Freight Line, the sector's margin leader at 21.3 percent, trades at 18.2x forward EBITDA. FedEx Freight's 6.1 percent margin implies 1,200 basis points of operational upside if it closes half the gap over five years.
Operators should watch three follow-on events. FedEx Freight will report standalone Q1 2026 earnings in mid-June, the first clean quarterly print without parent-level cost allocations. The company has committed to investor day disclosures on terminal automation and pricing strategy by August. FedEx Corp will update its three-year margin targets in the July earnings call, likely guiding Express margins above 6.5 percent for the first time since 2019 as it sheds the Freight drag.
The separation was inevitable the moment FedEx's board authorized the review in December 2023. The parent company now operates with 22 percent fewer employees and a balance sheet that generates $6.8 billion in annual free cash flow without the Freight capital burden. RXO opens Monday at an implied enterprise value of $11.2 billion, giving North American logistics allocators the first pure LTL vehicle above $10 billion market cap since 2003.
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For the principal
This creates two tracking positions where you had one—RXO for LTL exposure, FDX for integrated express without the freight anchor.
For the operator
Watch RXO's June standalone earnings for the first clean margin print and updated capex guidance on terminal modernization spend.
For the house
We rotate 40% of FDX exposure into RXO at open, targeting the LTL margin expansion story over parent's capital-intensive automation path.
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