FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About FreightCar America, Inc.
FreightCar America, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells railcars and railcar components for the transportation of bulk commodities and containerized freight products in the United States and Mexico. The company operates through two segments: Manufacturing and Aftermarket. It offers a range of railcars, including boxcars, covered and open-top hopper cars, intermodal and non-intermodal flat cars, mill gondola cars, coil steel cars, coal cars, dynastack series, steel products, boxcars, aluminum coal cars, stainless steel and hybrid stainless steel cars, and other railcar types, as well as other supplies for all railcar types, and provides aftermarket services including safety training, railcar inspections, and preventative maintenance. The company also sells used railcars; rebuilds, converts, and leases railcars; and sells forged, cast, and fabricated parts for various railcars. It serves shippers, railroads, and financial institutions. FreightCar America, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Sector: Industrials · Industry: Railroads · United States · 1,986 employees · freightcaramerica.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-06
As of 2026-09-06, FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) had a market capitalization of $232.8M (forward 6.7) and a beta of 1.46; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $6.57 – $14.90 (-13.8% over the year).
- Market cap
- $232.8M
- Enterprise value
- $315.3M
- Forward P/E
- 6.7
- PEG ratio
- 0.64
- Price / book
- 6.43
- EPS (trailing)
- $-0.38
- EPS (forward)
- $1.06
- Payout ratio
- 0.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2017-08-15
- 52-week range
- $6.57 – $14.90
- 52-week change
- -13.8%
- Beta
- 1.46
- Average volume
- 246,225
- Shares outstanding
- 32.8M
- Short % of float
- 3.04%
- Profit margin
- -2.7%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-10
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-10 scan of the US universe, FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) last closed at $6.74 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 38 (neutral territory), price -5.7% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -8.0%, MACD histogram 0.02.
Sentiment inputs: StockTwits 100% bullish; analyst consensus score 75/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 60 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
RapidTradeView has recorded no Congress or insider filing for RAIL in the last 90 days. Coverage of House, Senate and SEC Form 4 filings began in July 2026, and insider sells are tracked for universe tickers only, so this is our record, not a guarantee that nothing was filed. Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
RAIL has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell RAIL.
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