Greenbrier Companies (GBX) Stock Price, News & Analysis

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Greenbrier Companies in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" GBX shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in GBX, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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5 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Greenbrier Companies' stock. Their GBX share price targets range from $40.00 to $65.00. On average, they predict the company's stock price to reach $54.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 5.2% from the stock's current price.
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Greenbrier Companies' stock was trading at $44.18 on January 1st, 2024. Since then, GBX stock has increased by 16.2% and is now trading at $51.34.
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Greenbrier Companies saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,860,000 shares, an increase of 13.4% from the February 29th total of 1,640,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 303,200 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 6.1 days. Approximately 6.3% of the company's stock are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 4th 2024.
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The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE:GBX) announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, April, 5th. The transportation company reported $1.03 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.75 by $0.28. The transportation company earned $862.70 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $841.58 million. Greenbrier Companies had a net margin of 2.97% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 9.05%. The firm's revenue was down 23.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.99 EPS.

Greenbrier Companies announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, April 5th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, April 23rd will be given a dividend of $0.30 per share on Tuesday, May 14th. This represents a $1.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.34%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, April 22nd.
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Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.30%. The company does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio is 35.29%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, GBX will have a dividend payout ratio of 28.10% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Greenbrier Companies issued an update on its FY 2024 earnings guidance on Friday, April, 5th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $3.5 billion-$3.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $3.5 billion.

32 employees have rated Greenbrier Companies Chief Executive Officer William A. Furman on Glassdoor.com. William A. Furman has an approval rating of 82% among the company's employees.

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Greenbrier Companies' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Community Bank of Raymore (0.41%) and Cullen Investment Group LTD. (0.06%). Insiders that own company stock include Antonio O Garza, Brian J Comstock, Charles J Swindells, Laurie R Dornan, Martin Raymond Baker, Patrick J Ottensmeyer, Wanda F Felton, William A Furman and William J Krueger.
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