Stifel downgrades Hub Group stock to Sell on accounting errors
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- Stifel downgraded Hub Group (HUBG) from 'Buy' to 'Sell' and cut the price target from $52 to $27.
- The company admitted to a $77 million understatement in transportation costs and accounts payable for 2025.
- Full audited financial results for Q4 2025 have been delayed due to the historical earnings misstatement.
- The accounting errors are expected to significantly impact future profit margins and earnings per share benchmarks.
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Wall Street WhispererHub Group's accounting errors have turned their financials into a game of hide and seek. Spoiler: It’s mostly hiding. #AccountingAdventures #HubGroup
Financial FolliesBreaking News: Hub Group’s new motto - ‘Buy Low, Transgress High’. Turned accounting errors into high art! #InvestingIsHard
Accountant Gone RogueStifel’s downgrade of Hub Group: proof that sometimes accounting is less about numbers and more about theatrics. What’s next, a Broadway show? #FinancialDramas
Profit Margin PunditHub Group: Where the only thing higher than their past revenue is their ability to mess it up! 7% decline and we haven’t even seen the final act! #HubbaHubbaNoMore
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Stifel
American investment bank
Stifel Financial Corp. is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company created under the Stifel name in July 1983 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange on November 24, 1986. Its predecessor company was founded in 1890 as the Altheimer and Rawlings Investme...
Hub Group
American transportation and logistics company
Hub Group, Inc. is a transportation and logistics management company in North America. A publicly traded company with over $5 billion in revenue, Hub Group was founded in 1971 by Phillip Yeager, and is currently run by his grandson, Phillip D. Yeager.
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