Forensic Analysis · Industrials / Manufacturing / Defense · as of Aug 11, 2026

Greenbrier Companies Inc (GBX)

A forensic read on Greenbrier Companies Inc 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

Forensic signals

13.6

P / E (ttm)

13.3%

ROE

$1.4B

Market cap

2.85%

Dividend yield

-8.6%

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.

Greenbrier Companies Inc earns a D (Weak — demands caution) forensic quality grade. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by shareholder returns.

What the filings flag

FCF ($15M)

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $62M to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025, but free cash flow was ($15M) after capex — there was no free cash flow to fund the payout from at all, though operating cash flow alone was $266M — 23% of that. The entire return is coming from debt or cash reserves, not cash the business itself generated — a harder case than returns merely running ahead of free cash flow, since here there was none to run ahead of.

8.2%

FY2025

Return on invested capital. Return on invested capital is 8.2% in the latest fiscal year and rising from 4% — around its ~9% cost of capital, so growth is roughly value-neutral.

$10M

FY2019–FY2019

Goodwill impairments. Took $10M of goodwill writedowns across 1 year (FY2019 ($10M)) — about 14% of net income over the span. Writedowns mean past acquisitions underperformed what was paid for them.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$3.24B

Revenue Growth YoY-8.6%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+2.9%

Net Margin6.3%

Free Cash Flow-$14.7M

Return on Equity13.3%

Debt / Equity1.14x

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 11, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.