FreightCar America, Inc.
General ticker "RAIL" information:
- Sector: Industrials
- Industry: Railroads
- Capitalization: $184.6M (TTM average)
FreightCar America, Inc. follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 8.0%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 2.1%: low 7.59$, high 7.91$
Factors to consider:
- Total employees count: 1986 (-2.2%) as of 2025
- US accounted for 100.0% of revenue in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31
- Top business risk factors: Industry cyclicity, Economic downturns and volatility, Inflation impact, Rail traffic disruption, Raw material costs
- Price in estimated range
- Earnings for 3 months up through Q1 are below our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2025-12-31 to 2027-12-31
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [6.70$, 13.66$]
- 2026-12-31 to 2027-12-31 estimated range: [6.04$, 12.63$]
Financial Metrics affecting the RAIL estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 18.7 at the end of fiscal year the price was very low
- Positive: 6.62 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 10.42
- Positive: -5.34 < Operating profit margin, % of 6.77
- Positive: Return on assets ratio (scaled to [-100,100]) of 11.61 > 6.02
- Positive: 5.50 < Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 6.81
- Positive: -4.39 < Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -2.74
- Negative: Inventory ratio change, % of 1.26 > 0.80
- Positive: 0.02 < Industry earnings per price (median), % of 4.04
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Financial data
| YTD | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $357.78MM | $559.42MM | $500.99MM |
| Operating Expenses | $347.29MM | $522.08MM | $467.07MM |
| Operating Income | $10.49MM | $37.34MM | $33.92MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $-32.58MM | $-107.32MM | $-44.79MM |
| Interest Expense | $15.03MM | $6.85MM | $17.56MM |
| Income(Loss) | $-22.09MM | $-69.98MM | $-10.87MM |
| Taxes | $1.50MM | $5.84MM | $-48.98MM |
| Net Income(Loss)* | $-23.59MM | $-75.82MM | $38.10MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $-46.21MM | $-150.27MM | $-107.41MM |
| Inventory | $125.02MM | $75.28MM | $68.30MM |
| Assets | $259.46MM | $224.22MM | $290.05MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $4.77MM | $44.93MM | $34.78MM |
| Capital expenditure | $12.72MM | $5.02MM | $3.38MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-4.37MM | $-5.02MM | $-9.14MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $2.25MM | $-36.02MM | $-5.79MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $-0.83 | $-2.47 | $1.20 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.