The package delivery company has had to reassess its expectations in recent years and may have to do so again soon.

Where will United Parcel Service ( UPS 1.43% ) be in a year? It's a good question, and the answers to it reveal a lot about what the package delivery company has been through in the last few years and where it might be heading from here. As such, here's a look at prospects for UPS and its investors in the coming period.

UPS' fluctuating fortunes

To see the whole picture, you need to go back to the investor day presentation from March 2024. It included guidance for 2026 (which I will address shortly) and set the tone for what investors might expect in the coming years. For the sake of brevity, there were three key takeaways:

A doubling down on growing in key, highe

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