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Industry wide, revenues topped $70 billion dollars a year in the parcel delivery business, a market that two giants attack with two very different business models. UPS which was founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States has grown into a billion dollar corporation. FedEx Corporation was founded in 1971 as the first next day air supplier and today profits are also in the billions. Which leads us to the question, which one of these companies are better managed and which one is the better investment?
The companies' financials stack up like this: UPS has annual revenues of $36 billion, while FedEx has $26 billion. But UPS has a market capitalization, or total stock market value, that's four times that of its rival: $82 billion compared to FedEx's $22 billion. UPS trades at twice the price-to-book ratio that FedEx does. In the air FedEx dominates with the world's largest air delivery service, carrying 25 percent more air shipments each day than UPS, but this is why......

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