Greenbrier Companies (GBX) Expected to Announce Earnings on Friday

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is anticipated to release its earnings data before the market opens on Friday, April 4th. Analysts expect Greenbrier Companies to post earnings of $1.78 per share and revenue of $898.53 million for the quarter. Greenbrier Companies has set its FY 2025 guidance at EPS.

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) last released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 8th. The transportation company reported $1.72 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.16 by $0.56. The company had revenue of $875.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $849.51 million. Greenbrier Companies had a net margin of 5.10% and a return on equity of 12.10%. Greenbrier Companies’s quarterly revenue was up 8.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.96 EPS. On average, analysts expect Greenbrier Companies to post $6 EPS for the current fiscal year and $6 EPS for the next fiscal year.

Greenbrier Companies Stock Performance

NYSE GBX opened at $53.13 on Friday. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $59.53 and its two-hundred day moving average is $59.34. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.53. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.67 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.27, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.80 and a beta of 1.62. Greenbrier Companies has a fifty-two week low of $41.40 and a fifty-two week high of $71.06.

Greenbrier Companies Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, February 19th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, January 29th were issued a $0.30 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Wednesday, January 29th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.26%. Greenbrier Companies’s payout ratio is 20.94%.

Insider Transactions at Greenbrier Companies

In other news, COO William J. Krueger sold 2,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, February 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $63.21, for a total value of $126,420.00. Following the sale, the chief operating officer now directly owns 42,714 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,699,951.94. This trade represents a 4.47 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Corporate insiders own 1.78% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Bank of America upped their price target on Greenbrier Companies from $60.00 to $62.00 and gave the company an “underperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and three have given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $63.00.

Greenbrier Companies Company Profile

The Greenbrier Companies, Inc designs, manufactures, and markets railroad freight car equipment in North America, Europe, and South America. It operates through three segments: Manufacturing; Maintenance Services; and Leasing & Management Services. The Manufacturing segment offers covered hopper cars, gondolas, open top hoppers, boxcars, center partition cars, tank cars, sustainable conversions, double-stack railcars, auto-max ii, multi-max, and multi-max plus products, intermodal cars, automobile transport, coil steel and metals, flat cars, sliding wall cars, pressurized tank cars, and non-pressurized tank cars.