FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL)

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 5 warning events of 4 kinds: a debt default or acceleration notice (8-K item 2.04, the latest 2020-12-28); a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, the latest 2024-12-06); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, 2 times, the latest 2021-03-30); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2020-05-12) (its current reports).

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $524 million in fiscal 2016 to $501 million in fiscal 2025, down 0.5% a year; it rose in 3 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 79% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 1 of 4 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, FreightCar America, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 10.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 33% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, FreightCar America, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 25 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 137 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 10.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s standing among 30 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $501 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 41% by size; a net margin of 7.6% ranks in the top 18%; revenue growth of 11.2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 28% (its annual reports).

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Randall, Nicholas J (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-05-02, 2.5 years (bottom 26% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.2 years (bottom 31%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (top 48%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $64 million against debt of $98 million leaves -11.5% of its assets as net cash, bottom 35% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 6.3% of revenue (top 38%); a gross margin of 14.6% (bottom 46%) (its annual report).

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 11.2% a year over the last three filed years against -0.5% over all 10, speeding up (top 9% of its family); the newest year grew -10.5% (bottom 26%); research spending grew 35.3% a year (top 21%); capital spending grew -24.4% a year (bottom 19%) (its annual reports). FreightCar America, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Manufacturing at $474 million, Aftermarket at $27 million. 1 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 95% of revenue (its annual report).

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FreightCar America, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $501 million in fiscal 2025 came in 27.7% below the $693 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 23% of its family); net income of $38 million against a prior three-year average of $46 million (top 12%); a net margin of 7.6% against -10.3% before (top 9%) (its annual reports).