2013 was a year of moves forward for every transport firm listed on the Stock Exchange. And while we lost CityLink (to a management buy-out), we gained Royal Mail - and a whole heap of market capitalisation. So without further ado - let's find out who the big winners were!
For the past full year of trading, all of our MT Tracker '6' (the six operators who have all traded shares throughout 2013) have all made serious gains in share price - as this crude, but effective, chart below shows.
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The biggest winner of 2013? UK Mail Group. Its share price rose by 105.3% in 2013. Second was Dart Group (a 91% rise), and third was Wincanton, a 78.6% rise.
Unable to keep up with such figures, but still rising year-on-year are Stobart Group (up 37.3% y-o-y); Hargreaves Services (26.7% up y-o-y) and bringing up the rear NWF Group with 'just' a 24.4% increase y-o-y.
Excluding the exit of former CityLink parent Rentokil and the addition of Royal Mail to the MT basket of shares - our holdings rose by 53.4%. All in all 2013 was a pretty staggering year, and it will take some going for 2014 to move at such a rate.