Bernstein analyst David Vernon raised the firm’s price target on Union Pacific (UNP) to $284 from $277 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The firm says the railroads have gone from being a consensus long sector to being a relatively boring group, dragged down by anemic demand and struggling through cost pressure and margin erosion. Bernstein remains of the view that “we are moving past the worst of times.”
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