GBXThe Greenbrier Companies, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (BBB), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$193K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -79% · now 34% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can GBX take a bad year?
The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. carries $1.53B of net debt at 4.81× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.81×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.06× a year ago · the load is going up
- Cash runway
- 2.4 years
Cash runway · burning $28M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 37%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $1.81B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $274M
- Net debt
- $1.53B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $319M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $190M
- Debt / equity
- 1.15×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.67×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 37%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −79%
- Below its 52-week high
- 34%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.