EntryPoint Capital LLC Acquires New Position in The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE:GBX)

EntryPoint Capital LLC acquired a new stake in shares of The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE:GBX) during the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 11,792 shares of the transportation company’s stock, valued at approximately $719,000. Greenbrier Companies makes up about 0.3% of EntryPoint Capital LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 24th biggest holding.

Several other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. R Squared Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Greenbrier Companies during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC lifted its position in shares of Greenbrier Companies by 241.2% in the 4th quarter. Smartleaf Asset Management LLC now owns 911 shares of the transportation company’s stock worth $56,000 after buying an additional 644 shares during the last quarter. KBC Group NV lifted its position in shares of Greenbrier Companies by 57.8% in the 4th quarter. KBC Group NV now owns 1,466 shares of the transportation company’s stock worth $89,000 after buying an additional 537 shares during the last quarter. Point72 Asia Singapore Pte. Ltd. acquired a new position in shares of Greenbrier Companies in the 3rd quarter valued at about $107,000. Finally, Westhampton Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of Greenbrier Companies during the 4th quarter valued at about $207,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 95.59% of the company’s stock.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other news, COO William J. Krueger sold 2,000 shares of Greenbrier Companies stock in a transaction on Monday, February 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $63.21, for a total transaction of $126,420.00. Following the transaction, the chief operating officer now directly owns 42,714 shares in the company, valued at approximately $2,699,951.94. This trade represents a 4.47 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 1.78% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Separately, Bank of America upped their price objective on Greenbrier Companies from $60.00 to $62.00 and gave the stock an “underperform” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 9th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $63.00.

Greenbrier Companies Trading Up 0.8 %

Shares of GBX stock opened at $54.28 on Tuesday. The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. has a 1 year low of $41.40 and a 1 year high of $71.06. The firm has a market capitalization of $1.70 billion, a PE ratio of 9.47, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.80 and a beta of 1.62. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $60.32 and a two-hundred day moving average of $59.37. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.89, a quick ratio of 0.84 and a current ratio of 1.53.

Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, January 8th. The transportation company reported $1.72 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.16 by $0.56. The business had revenue of $875.90 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $849.51 million. Greenbrier Companies had a net margin of 5.10% and a return on equity of 12.10%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 8.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.96 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts expect that The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. will post 5.9 EPS for the current year.

Greenbrier Companies Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, February 19th. Investors of record on Wednesday, January 29th were paid a dividend of $0.30 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, January 29th. This represents a $1.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.21%. Greenbrier Companies’s dividend payout ratio is presently 20.94%.

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.