Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) Announces Quarterly Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.09 EPS

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) released its quarterly earnings data on Monday. The transportation company reported $1.69 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.78 by ($0.09), Zacks reports. Greenbrier Companies had a return on equity of 12.10% and a net margin of 5.10%. The firm had revenue of $762.10 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $898.53 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.03 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was down 11.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Greenbrier Companies updated its FY 2025 guidance to EPS.

Greenbrier Companies Price Performance

Shares of Greenbrier Companies stock traded down $5.08 on Tuesday, hitting $39.67. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,510,237 shares, compared to its average volume of 363,007. The company has a market capitalization of $1.24 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.92, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.80 and a beta of 1.56. Greenbrier Companies has a 1 year low of $39.06 and a 1 year high of $71.06. 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 fifty day moving average price of $56.82 and a 200-day moving average price of $59.57.

Greenbrier Companies Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, May 13th. Investors of record on Tuesday, April 22nd will be issued a dividend of $0.32 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, April 22nd. This is an increase from Greenbrier Companies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.30. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.23%. Greenbrier Companies’s dividend payout ratio is 20.94%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on GBX shares. Susquehanna dropped their price objective on Greenbrier Companies from $75.00 to $52.00 and set a “positive” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday. Bank of America boosted their price objective on shares of Greenbrier Companies from $60.00 to $62.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $59.75.

Insider Buying and Selling at Greenbrier Companies

In other Greenbrier Companies news, COO William J. Krueger sold 2,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Monday, February 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $63.21, for a total transaction of $126,420.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief operating officer now directly owns 42,714 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,699,951.94. This represents a 4.47 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. 1.78% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

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.