Greenbrier Companies (GBX) to Release Quarterly Earnings on Friday

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is expected to be announcing its earnings results before the market opens on Friday, April 4th. Analysts expect the company to announce 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 posted its earnings results 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 business had revenue of $875.90 million for 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%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 8.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $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 Down 0.4 %

Greenbrier Companies stock opened at $53.13 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $1.67 billion, a P/E ratio of 9.27, a P/E/G ratio of 0.80 and a beta of 1.62. The company has a quick ratio of 0.84, a current ratio of 1.53 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89. Greenbrier Companies has a twelve month low of $41.40 and a twelve month high of $71.06. The business has a fifty day moving average of $59.53 and a two-hundred day moving average of $59.34.

Greenbrier Companies Dividend Announcement

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

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

Insider Buying and Selling

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

About Greenbrier Companies

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.