Greenbrier Companies (GBX) to Release Quarterly Earnings on Monday

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) will likely be releasing its earnings data before the market opens on Monday, April 7th. 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.Investors that are interested in registering for the company’s conference call can do so using this link.

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) last posted its quarterly 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 during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $849.51 million. Greenbrier Companies had a return on equity of 12.10% and a net margin of 5.10%. Greenbrier Companies’s revenue for the quarter was up 8.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.96 earnings per share. 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 Trading Down 3.2 %

Shares of Greenbrier Companies stock opened at $45.60 on Friday. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $57.30 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $59.48. The company has a market capitalization of $1.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 7.96, a PEG ratio of 0.80 and a beta of 1.56. 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 12-month low of $41.40 and a 12-month high of $71.06.

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 given a dividend of $0.32 per share. This is a positive change from Greenbrier Companies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.30. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 22nd. This represents a $1.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.81%. Greenbrier Companies’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 20.94%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Separately, Bank of America upped their target price on Greenbrier Companies from $60.00 to $62.00 and gave the stock 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 stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $63.00.

Insider Transactions at Greenbrier Companies

In other 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 sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website. Company insiders own 1.78% of the company’s stock.

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.