This Mid-Cap Stock Soared Last Year. Can It Do It Again in 2025?
At a time when investor attention is squarely focused on the "Magnificent Seven" and AI stocks, it's worth remembering that you can find winners in almost any sector of the stock market. Take XPO (NYSE: XPO) for example. The nation's No. 3 less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation provider is a staple of the S&P MidCap 400, and it's long been an outperformer on the stock market.In 2021, it successfully spun off GXO Logistics, now the largest pure-play contract logistics company in the world, and followed that up with a spin-off of the RXO truck brokerage business. Over the long term, XPO intends to be a pure-play North American LTL company, though its European Transportation segment has performed well lately.Last year, XPO stock jumped 50%, and the industrial stock is off to a good start in 2025 despite broader headwinds in the industry. Year to date, it's gained 12%, and it just popped on its fourth-quarter earnings report.Continue reading

At a time when investor attention is squarely focused on the "Magnificent Seven" and AI stocks, it's worth remembering that you can find winners in almost any sector of the stock market. Take XPO (NYSE: XPO) for example. The nation's No. 3 less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation provider is a staple of the S&P MidCap 400, and it's long been an outperformer on the stock market.
In 2021, it successfully spun off GXO Logistics, now the largest pure-play contract logistics company in the world, and followed that up with a spin-off of the RXO truck brokerage business. Over the long term, XPO intends to be a pure-play North American LTL company, though its European Transportation segment has performed well lately.
Last year, XPO stock jumped 50%, and the industrial stock is off to a good start in 2025 despite broader headwinds in the industry. Year to date, it's gained 12%, and it just popped on its fourth-quarter earnings report.