Greenbrier Companies (GBX) to Release Earnings on Monday

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is projected to issue its quarterly earnings data before the market opens on Monday, April 7th. 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.Individual that are interested in participating in the company’s earnings conference call can do so using this link.

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, January 8th. The transportation company reported $1.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.16 by $0.56. Greenbrier Companies had a return on equity of 12.10% and a net margin of 5.10%. The firm had revenue of $875.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $849.51 million. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.96 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 8.3% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 3.2 %

Shares of GBX stock opened at $45.60 on Friday. Greenbrier Companies has a 1 year low of $41.40 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 business’s fifty day moving average is $57.30 and its 200-day moving average is $59.55. The stock has a market cap of $1.43 billion, a PE ratio of 7.96, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.80 and a beta of 1.56.

Greenbrier Companies Increases Dividend

The company also recently announced 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. This is a positive change from Greenbrier Companies’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.30. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.81%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, April 22nd. Greenbrier Companies’s payout ratio is presently 20.94%.

Insider Activity at Greenbrier Companies

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

Analyst Ratings Changes

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

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.