Forensic Analysis · Transportation / Logistics · as of Aug 11, 2026
Gatx Corp (GATX)
A forensic read on Gatx Corp built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.
D · Weak — demands caution
Forensic grade
Clean
Earnings quality
3
Forensic signals
17.0
P / E (ttm)
12.1%
ROE
$6.2B
Market cap
1.48%
Dividend yield
9.8%
Revenue growth
This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.
Gatx Corp earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by accruals ratio (% of noa).
What the filings flag
+39.6%
FY2024→FY2025
Accruals ratio (% of NOA).Net operating assets grew +39.6% relative to their own average in FY2025 — scaled by NOA itself, not total assets (see the Forensic Screens card's differently-scaled Sloan Accrual Ratio for that read). Accruals are building sharply — a large slice of profit sits in operating assets, not cash; Richardson/Sloan link high accruals to weaker future returns as they reverse. The build is led by PP&E up +9% against revenue +10%. This is the third straight fiscal year of building accruals — a multi-year streak is a materially stronger tell than a single year's move. The cash-flow cross-check is more mixed: reported earnings ran in line with operating cash by 2% of net operating assets, diverging from the balance-sheet accrual read.
3.6%
FY2025
Return on invested capital.Return on invested capital is 3.6% in the latest fiscal year and steady — well below its ~9% cost of capital, so reinvested dollars may be destroying value, not building it.
+0.0%/yr
FY2022–FY2025
Share count.Diluted share count changed +0% over the last 3 years to FY2025 (+0.0%/yr). Roughly flat — buybacks ($65M) are about offsetting stock comp ($25M), not shrinking the count. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.
Key fundamentals
Latest Revenue$1.74B
Revenue Growth YoY+9.8%
Revenue CAGR (3yr)+11.0%
Net Margin19.2%
Return on Equity12.1%
Debt / Equity4.56x
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