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Frederick W. Smith

Founder, FDX

In the role
May 1971 – Jun 2025
Birth date
11 August 1944 1 source
Birth time
Unknown. A reading is issued only when it holds whichever hour Frederick was born.

Readings in role

31 years on record

Readings are issued for leaders in the role, one of five levels read for the calendar year from the birth date. Frederick is not in the role now; the record covers the years in it.

Years in role by level

Strong
4 of 4 rose
Firm
6 of 11 rose
Even
12 of 16 rose
Soft
none
Weak
none

All leaders, 1995–2025: Strong 76% of 256 · Firm 71% of 709 · Even 67% of 2,016 · Soft 59% of 310 · Weak 50% of 191.

Year by year

Every calendar year Frederick led FDX with a reading on record, and what the stock did that year. Past years are read with the rules now fixed; the return is the stock's from January to December.

FDX rose in 22 of 31 years.

Frederick W. Smith at FDX, by year
YearReadingStackedFDXResult
2025Strong2 signals, 0 drags+5.1%Rose
2024Firm1 signal, 0 drags+13.5%Rose
2023Even0 signals, 0 drags+49.4%Rose
2022Firm1 signal, 0 drags−31.9%Fell
2021Even0 signals, 0 drags+0.6%Rose
2020Firm1 signal, 0 drags+74.6%Rose
2019Firm1 signal, 0 drags−4.9%Fell
2018Firm1 signal, 0 drags−34.7%Fell
2017Firm1 signal, 0 drags+35.2%Rose
2016Even0 signals, 0 drags+26.0%Rose
2015Even0 signals, 0 drags−13.7%Fell
2014Firm1 signal, 0 drags+21.4%Rose
2013Firm1 signal, 0 drags+57.4%Rose
2012Even0 signals, 0 drags+10.7%Rose
2011Even0 signals, 0 drags−9.8%Fell
2010Strong3 signals, 0 drags+12.2%Rose
2009Even0 signals, 0 drags+31.2%Rose
2008Firm1 signal, 0 drags−27.7%Fell
2007Even0 signals, 0 drags−17.6%Fell
2006Even0 signals, 0 drags+5.4%Rose
2005Even0 signals, 0 drags+5.3%Rose
2004Strong2 signals, 0 drags+46.4%Rose
2003Even0 signals, 0 drags+24.9%Rose
2002Even0 signals, 0 drags+4.7%Rose
2001Firm1 signal, 0 drags+29.8%Rose
2000Firm1 signal, 0 drags−2.4%Fell
1999Even0 signals, 0 drags−8.2%Fell
1998Strong3 signals, 0 drags+46.1%Rose
1997Even0 signals, 0 drags+37.2%Rose
1996Even0 signals, 0 drags+20.5%Rose
1995Even0 signals, 0 drags+22.6%Rose

Documented sources

One encyclopedia entry states this date. Stock.ceo has not verified the underlying birth record.

Sources last checked: 16 October 2026

Readings
One of five levels a year, with how many signals and drags stacked, computed from the birth date over the thirteen possible birth hours and issued only where at least ten agree. Built 2026-10-16 from research export f0c9e40. The rules stay in-house.
Stock data
Calendar-year and monthly % change of adjusted close. Volatility % = annualised stdev of the 12 monthly returns. No prices are included. Adjusted close is split-adjusted, so a stock split never appears as a move in anything plotted here, and stock splits are not recorded as events.
Birth dates
206 of the 319 people in this dataset now have at least one source recorded here, across 207 of the 325 leader-company records — six people ran two companies and are stored once for each. Of those sources — all 207 of them — 204 are a stated age read out of an SEC proxy statement, which bounds a birth year and says nothing about the day; one is an age stated in a press report; two state the day itself, one from an official gazette read by a person and one from an encyclopedia. The day is what every reading on this site is calculated from, so for all but those two birth dates no source here backs the part that is used. The 204 records the pass produced were not reviewed by a person: each source names who read it. Six findings from the same pass are deliberately not entered, because in each one the date held here falls outside the bound the filing implies, and telling an ordinary record-date lag from a real disagreement needs a person rather than arithmetic. An absent entry still means no source is recorded here yet.
Research export
Version 2, generated 2026-10-16 from research commit 7d490ef with uncommitted changes

Research and exploration only. Not investment advice. A reading describes a leader's year from their birth date, not the stock.