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3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars

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If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...

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KJo
·2021-07-09
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sharonK
·2021-07-09
nice
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Mib1515
·2021-07-09
Ok
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AetherC
·2021-07-09
Wow!!
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- Deathminos:
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Seafront
·2021-07-09
Thanks
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- lekai:
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Shishir
·2021-07-09
Like comment
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HuatMonster
·2021-07-09
Wow. This is nice if have. How to do that? Omg
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xinda
·2021-07-09
Nonsense article
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BBBBBBBBBB
·2021-07-09
Ok
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HuEr
·2021-07-09
How come they don't mention those turn from 1 mil to 1 thousand??
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- MT103:
  Cos no one would read it. People prefer success stories cos they think it’ll be them someday
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Ivanhojh
·2021-07-09
Like pls
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- boonhong21:
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gcchan90
·2021-07-09
Well there are more that turn 1000 into 100
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2020TS
·2021-07-09
Everyone has an opinion.
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Stekii
·2021-07-09
Wow good luck to those investors
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SuzyParkerin
·2021-07-09
Wow that's cool
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- 4c9b82a2:
  :)
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Turtlebizkit
·2021-07-09
[Wow] [Wow] [Wow]
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ff8ada2
·2021-07-09
Done
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stingray102
·2021-07-09
Omg
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kel0508
·2021-07-09
Amazing! Like pls.
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·2021-07-09
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While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. 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While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143424192,"gmtCreate":1625811434516,"gmtModify":1631890333191,"author":{"id":"3579089382464450","authorId":"3579089382464450","name":"sharonK","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3579089382464450","authorIdStr":"3579089382464450"},"htmlText":"nice","listText":"nice","text":"nice","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143424192","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143582656,"gmtCreate":1625802025975,"gmtModify":1633937164262,"author":{"id":"3579210010472476","authorId":"3579210010472476","name":"Mib1515","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c0b85730abdbda4c69ac70cb9d1f58cb","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3579210010472476","authorIdStr":"3579210010472476"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143582656","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143510871,"gmtCreate":1625800756693,"gmtModify":1633937175369,"author":{"id":"3582258408396089","authorId":"3582258408396089","name":"AetherC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e9d2b2288d3ec3cb10339c5902876c8","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582258408396089","authorIdStr":"3582258408396089"},"htmlText":"Wow!!","listText":"Wow!!","text":"Wow!!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143510871","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5169078,"gmtCreate":1625804211290,"gmtModify":1631894264231,"authorId":3578267868807631,"author":{"id":3578267868807631,"idStr":"3578267868807631","authorId":3578267868807631,"name":"Deathminos","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143510871,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Hi","text":"Hi","html":"Hi"},{"id":5168721,"gmtCreate":1625802034579,"gmtModify":1631894264220,"authorId":3579210010472476,"author":{"id":3579210010472476,"idStr":"3579210010472476","authorId":3579210010472476,"name":"Mib1515","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c0b85730abdbda4c69ac70cb9d1f58cb","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143510871,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143532319,"gmtCreate":1625800464831,"gmtModify":1631891323435,"author":{"id":"4087903916881130","authorId":"4087903916881130","name":"Seafront","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087903916881130","authorIdStr":"4087903916881130"},"htmlText":"Thanks&nbsp;","listText":"Thanks&nbsp;","text":"Thanks","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143532319","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5168789,"gmtCreate":1625802366431,"gmtModify":1631891323431,"authorId":3568716803406275,"author":{"id":3568716803406275,"idStr":"3568716803406275","authorId":3568716803406275,"name":"lekai","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143532319,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Np","text":"Np","html":"Np"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143538867,"gmtCreate":1625800319659,"gmtModify":1633937179295,"author":{"id":"3577771722524346","authorId":"3577771722524346","name":"Shishir","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5bbb5ffb9814e2b46f518ffcbf85ff64","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3577771722524346","authorIdStr":"3577771722524346"},"htmlText":"Like comment&nbsp;","listText":"Like comment&nbsp;","text":"Like comment","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143538867","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143538909,"gmtCreate":1625800308901,"gmtModify":1633937179538,"author":{"id":"3573958025912472","authorId":"3573958025912472","name":"HuatMonster","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7d81e74b4364df645e86942b6636cb78","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3573958025912472","authorIdStr":"3573958025912472"},"htmlText":"Wow. This is nice if have. How to do that? Omg","listText":"Wow. This is nice if have. How to do that? Omg","text":"Wow. This is nice if have. How to do that? Omg","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143538909","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143539371,"gmtCreate":1625800132693,"gmtModify":1633937181757,"author":{"id":"3568766270669985","authorId":"3568766270669985","name":"xinda","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2760aaaf4f8e82555fbca3c14fa7d8c7","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3568766270669985","authorIdStr":"3568766270669985"},"htmlText":"Nonsense article&nbsp;","listText":"Nonsense article&nbsp;","text":"Nonsense article","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143539371","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143594628,"gmtCreate":1625799909264,"gmtModify":1633937183038,"author":{"id":"3581562365927542","authorId":"3581562365927542","name":"BBBBBBBBBB","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/973395458d7e1db24dbd4a689c79e8a2","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581562365927542","authorIdStr":"3581562365927542"},"htmlText":"Ok","listText":"Ok","text":"Ok","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143594628","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143598347,"gmtCreate":1625799620689,"gmtModify":1631893431069,"author":{"id":"3582669029984591","authorId":"3582669029984591","name":"HuEr","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ec5bde574784bed0d29daeee8cd0e487","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582669029984591","authorIdStr":"3582669029984591"},"htmlText":"How come they don't mention those turn from 1 mil to 1 thousand??","listText":"How come they don't mention those turn from 1 mil to 1 thousand??","text":"How come they don't mention those turn from 1 mil to 1 thousand??","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143598347","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. 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While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5168473,"gmtCreate":1625800490175,"gmtModify":1631893431097,"authorId":3582627680210298,"author":{"id":3582627680210298,"idStr":"3582627680210298","authorId":3582627680210298,"name":"MT103","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0444eb80cd59e967bc90239dbe923661","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143598347,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Cos no one would read it. People prefer success stories cos they think it’ll be them someday","text":"Cos no one would read it. People prefer success stories cos they think it’ll be them someday","html":"Cos no one would read it. 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While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5168290,"gmtCreate":1625799516286,"gmtModify":1635233593048,"authorId":3575147848250182,"author":{"id":3575147848250182,"idStr":"3575147848250182","authorId":3575147848250182,"name":"boonhong21","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4576487764c99ea59dfd1cfcdf89da5b","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143599813,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok","text":"Ok","html":"Ok"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143504336,"gmtCreate":1625799166325,"gmtModify":1633937189838,"author":{"id":"3581732776237830","authorId":"3581732776237830","name":"gcchan90","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5d9ba0044f6af87e0ba5abcd8e70d671","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581732776237830","authorIdStr":"3581732776237830"},"htmlText":"Well there are more that turn 1000 into 100","listText":"Well there are more that turn 1000 into 100","text":"Well there are more that turn 1000 into 100","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143504336","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143505677,"gmtCreate":1625799137299,"gmtModify":1633937190205,"author":{"id":"3568580098685907","authorId":"3568580098685907","name":"2020TS","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dc251ae3d7264077ed6557978fbfc6bb","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3568580098685907","authorIdStr":"3568580098685907"},"htmlText":"Everyone has an opinion.","listText":"Everyone has an opinion.","text":"Everyone has an opinion.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143505677","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143501041,"gmtCreate":1625798891283,"gmtModify":1633937193909,"author":{"id":"3582775610192033","authorId":"3582775610192033","name":"Stekii","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7cd4e6bcf9ab4091b03aed02e3a96132","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582775610192033","authorIdStr":"3582775610192033"},"htmlText":"Wow good luck to those investors&nbsp;","listText":"Wow good luck to those investors&nbsp;","text":"Wow good luck to those investors","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143501041","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143277811,"gmtCreate":1625798651933,"gmtModify":1631893645047,"author":{"id":"4087437689901010","authorId":"4087437689901010","name":"SuzyParkerin","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"4087437689901010","authorIdStr":"4087437689901010"},"htmlText":"Wow that's cool","listText":"Wow that's cool","text":"Wow that's cool","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":6,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143277811","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5168249,"gmtCreate":1625799111992,"gmtModify":1631893645051,"authorId":3580291159442629,"author":{"id":3580291159442629,"idStr":"3580291159442629","authorId":3580291159442629,"name":"4c9b82a2","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143277811,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":":)","text":":)","html":":)"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143276398,"gmtCreate":1625798431914,"gmtModify":1631891039046,"author":{"id":"3579141181798233","authorId":"3579141181798233","name":"Turtlebizkit","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ae37619873125a6a1b1b6c86916c6c23","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3579141181798233","authorIdStr":"3579141181798233"},"htmlText":"[Wow]&nbsp;[Wow]&nbsp;[Wow]&nbsp;","listText":"[Wow]&nbsp;[Wow]&nbsp;[Wow]&nbsp;","text":"[Wow] [Wow] [Wow]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143276398","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143271775,"gmtCreate":1625798383897,"gmtModify":1631891691603,"author":{"id":"3582780943549578","authorId":"3582780943549578","name":"ff8ada2","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":1,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3582780943549578","authorIdStr":"3582780943549578"},"htmlText":"Done","listText":"Done","text":"Done","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143271775","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143273684,"gmtCreate":1625798284148,"gmtModify":1633937201167,"author":{"id":"3559604919356928","authorId":"3559604919356928","name":"stingray102","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/547c93575fd0fd499d515ad2092a2e9d","vip":1,"crmLevel":7,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3559604919356928","authorIdStr":"3559604919356928"},"htmlText":"Omg","listText":"Omg","text":"Omg","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143273684","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143273322,"gmtCreate":1625798267166,"gmtModify":1633937201391,"author":{"id":"3581934736299674","authorId":"3581934736299674","name":"kel0508","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/893b8204be964dc6d17ba74e699e3c2a","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581934736299674","authorIdStr":"3581934736299674"},"htmlText":"Amazing! Like pls.","listText":"Amazing! Like pls.","text":"Amazing! Like pls.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143273322","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":5168220,"gmtCreate":1625798968458,"gmtModify":1635233597085,"authorId":3581556523917541,"author":{"id":3581556523917541,"idStr":"3581556523917541","authorId":3581556523917541,"name":"crtyn","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/62554f7ddf70dc78b9e6f2cc7c56c702","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":143273322,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Done","text":"Done","html":"Done"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":143270891,"gmtCreate":1625798186813,"gmtModify":1633937202715,"author":{"id":"3560821847719018","authorId":"3560821847719018","name":"Redbull97","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d317a33208fcb7b6089b04f6bd63aa58","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3560821847719018","authorIdStr":"3560821847719018"},"htmlText":"Sad","listText":"Sad","text":"Sad","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/143270891","repostId":2149121328,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2149121328","pubTimestamp":1625797380,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2149121328?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-07-09 10:23","market":"us","language":"en","title":"3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2149121328","media":"Motley Fool","summary":"A look at why these stocks have outperformed and what investors can take away from them.","content":"<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company <b><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ODFL\">Old Dominion Freight Line</a></b> (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company <b>Middleby</b> (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company <b>Sherwin-Williams</b> (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0e204bbe49952bdc4f43415a6ff71e7c\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Old Dominion Freight Line</h2>\n<p>The trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/4b655e42575ee0ca717cad36b6dd5615\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"374\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>The key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.</p>\n<p>As such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.</p>\n<p>The company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. <b>FedEx</b> founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"</p>\n<p>The rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.</p>\n<h2>Middleby</h2>\n<p>The food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"</p>\n<p>The commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.</p>\n<p>Middleby's story has been <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/3136cd3e1ca945571db09329f240b4b6\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<p>All told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.</p>\n<h2>Sherwin-Williams</h2>\n<p>The paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.</p>\n<p>As long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/5fe5fc358903e44943689c2ad011ae0d\" tg-width=\"700\" tg-height=\"466\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images.</p>\n<p>In addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and <b>PPG</b> have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions&nbsp;such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.</p>\n<p>The chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/21879cb52bcb1d70e18628aace5bd472\" tg-width=\"720\" tg-height=\"387\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Data by YCharts</p>\n<h2>Finding the next big winner</h2>\n<p>All told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.</p>","source":"fool_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\n3 Stocks That Turned $1,000 Into Half a Million Dollars\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-09 10:23 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/><strong>Motley Fool</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/07/08/3-stocks-turned-1000-into-half-a-million-dollars/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2149121328","content_text":"If you had invested $1,000 each in the stock of trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ:ODFL), food equipment company Middleby (NASDAQ:MIDD), and paint and coatings company Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) 20 years ago, you would be worth more than $525,000 by now. While it's easy to look at such things in hindsight, perhaps there's value in looking at some of the lessons learned and then applying them to investments now. So with that in mind, let's take a closer look at why all three industrial stocks have done so well.\nData by YCharts\nOld Dominion Freight Line\nThe trucking company specializes in a niche market of the transportation industry, namely less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping. In a nutshell, LTL means a customer's freight is combined with other shippers' freight and then transported between several terminals to its final destination. This is distinct from full-truckload (FTL) shipping whereby a customer's shipment is loaded onto a dedicated truck and then taken directly to its final destination.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nThe key benefit of LTL is that shippers can send smaller shipments. This is a significant benefit to shippers who need to ensure a steady stream of shipments, such as securing e-commerce deliveries or maintaining inventory in a warehouse/store. Hence, it's quickly available for customers.\nAs such, it's not hard to see that the LTL industry has benefited from the growth in e-commerce, notably from small businesses. Also, the development of e-commerce has pressured retailers to guarantee the availability of products in-store -- good news for Old Dominion.\nThe company has an admirer in the leading figure in transportation in the U.S. FedEx founder and CEO Fred Smith noted on an earnings call, \"they've been very brilliant in finding a niche that's, for lack of a better term, near TL. It's in that zone between LTL and TL, and their average weight per shipment in a much more dense network is about 350 pounds, 400 pounds higher. So, their margins are outstanding.\"\nThe rise of Old Dominion's share price is an example of a top-class operator focused on a niche market that has benefited from positive long-term shifts in demand. Moreover, it demonstrates what happens when a company focuses on what it does best.\nMiddleby\nThe food equipment company's astonishing performance can be attributed to a highly successful acquisition strategy. According to Middleby's SEC filings, \"The company has pursued a strategy to acquire and assemble a leading portfolio of brands and technologies for each of its three business segments.\"\nThe commercial food service segment (66 different brands) sells into quick-service restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets, hotels, etc. The food processing segment (21 different brands) sells cooking and baking equipment into food processing companies. While the residential kitchen segment sells a wide range of equipment across its 17 different brands.\nMiddleby's story has been one of acquisition-led growth. Still, as you can see below, even as its debt has risen (taken to fund acquisitions), the company's debt-to-equity ratio is manageable. In other words, this isn't a story about chasing growth through reckless acquisitions.\n\nData by YCharts\nAll told, Middleby's stock success demonstrates what happens when management actively pursues acquisition-led growth within a growth industry.\nSherwin-Williams\nThe paint and coatings company's success speaks to a combination of the paint and coatings industry's fundamental attractiveness and the potential for growth through consolidating an industry.\nAs long as physical assets are created (housing, automobiles, airplanes, ships, packaging, etc.), they will need to be coated. In addition, it's a market that implies a significant amount of recurring revenue -- cars need to be repainted, houses refurbished, etc. As such, the industry's market position is stable.\n\nImage source: Getty Images.\nIn addition, the leading players like Sherwin-Williams and PPG have been consolidating a highly-fragmented industry through an ongoing wave of acquisitions such as Sherwin-Williams' $11.3 billion acquisition of Valspar in 2017.\nThe chart below shows the high return on equity (net income divided by shareholder's equity) generated in the industry and the upward trend in profit margin that often happens when industries consolidate and build scale.\n\nData by YCharts\nFinding the next big winner\nAll told, Old Dominion highlights the benefit of being a highly-skilled operator in a niche growth market. Likewise, Middleby represents a skilled management team buying growth in a growth industry, and Sherwin-Williams shows the power of consolidating a fragmented market.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":134,"commentSize":22,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}