Free Trial

Freightcar America (RAIL) Competitors

Freightcar America logo
$11.66 +1.83 (+18.62%)
Closing price 07/9/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
Extended Trading
$11.64 -0.02 (-0.14%)
As of 07/9/2025 07:59 PM Eastern
Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more.

RAIL vs. MLR, WNC, MTW, TWIN, CVGI, CAT, DE, PCAR, CMI, and WAB

Should you be buying Freightcar America stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Freightcar America include Miller Industries (MLR), Wabash National (WNC), Manitowoc (MTW), Twin Disc (TWIN), Commercial Vehicle Group (CVGI), Caterpillar (CAT), Deere & Company (DE), PACCAR (PCAR), Cummins (CMI), and Wabtec (WAB). These companies are all part of the "construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks" industry.

Freightcar America vs. Its Competitors

Freightcar America (NASDAQ:RAIL) and Miller Industries (NYSE:MLR) are both small-cap construction & farm machinery & heavy trucks companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.

In the previous week, Miller Industries had 1 more articles in the media than Freightcar America. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Miller Industries and 0 mentions for Freightcar America. Freightcar America's average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Miller Industries' score of 0.78 indicating that Freightcar America is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Freightcar America Positive
Miller Industries Positive

Miller Industries has higher revenue and earnings than Freightcar America. Freightcar America is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Miller Industries, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Freightcar America$559.42M0.40-$75.82M-$0.93-12.54
Miller Industries$1.26B0.41$63.49M$4.719.62

32.0% of Freightcar America shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.2% of Miller Industries shares are held by institutional investors. 28.7% of Freightcar America shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.4% of Miller Industries shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Miller Industries has a net margin of 4.81% compared to Freightcar America's net margin of -2.79%. Miller Industries' return on equity of 13.78% beat Freightcar America's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Freightcar America-2.79% -18.77% 9.16%
Miller Industries 4.81%13.78%7.76%

Freightcar America has a beta of 1.89, suggesting that its share price is 89% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Miller Industries has a beta of 1.22, suggesting that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Freightcar America presently has a consensus price target of $9.00, suggesting a potential downside of 22.81%. Miller Industries has a consensus price target of $64.00, suggesting a potential upside of 41.19%. Given Miller Industries' higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Miller Industries is more favorable than Freightcar America.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Freightcar America
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
Miller Industries
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Summary

Miller Industries beats Freightcar America on 10 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

Get Freightcar America News Delivered to You Automatically

Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for RAIL and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding RAIL and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip Chart

Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
Skip Chart

RAIL vs. The Competition

MetricFreightcar AmericaTRANS IndustryTransportation SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$187.17M$7.13B$7.18B$8.95B
Dividend YieldN/A1.73%914.34%4.02%
P/E Ratio-12.5416.2512.8920.16
Price / Sales0.405.76343.74188.47
Price / Cash6.136.607.5157.97
Price / Book-1.471.972.115.62
Net Income-$75.82M$360.72M$563.51M$248.50M
7 Day Performance31.75%0.96%-0.07%4.49%
1 Month Performance42.54%7.26%3.43%7.03%
1 Year Performance268.99%49.12%4.84%21.07%

Freightcar America Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RAIL
Freightcar America
3.0786 of 5 stars
$11.66
+18.6%
$9.00
-22.8%
+271.3%$187.17M$559.42M-12.542,030High Trading Volume
MLR
Miller Industries
3.6277 of 5 stars
$45.28
-2.6%
$64.00
+41.3%
-16.2%$532.63M$1.26B9.611,711
WNC
Wabash National
2.6041 of 5 stars
$11.27
-1.9%
$9.50
-15.7%
-46.2%$481.09M$1.95B-7.276,000Positive News
MTW
Manitowoc
3.5087 of 5 stars
$12.76
-0.9%
$10.86
-14.9%
+31.5%$456.51M$2.18B10.214,800
TWIN
Twin Disc
3.1387 of 5 stars
$9.23
-4.6%
$12.00
+30.0%
-21.1%$136.95M$295.13M31.83760
CVGI
Commercial Vehicle Group
3.9756 of 5 stars
$2.08
+5.1%
$10.00
+380.8%
-59.0%$68.58M$723.35M-2.006,900News Coverage
CAT
Caterpillar
4.8441 of 5 stars
$391.54
-1.6%
$380.83
-2.7%
+23.5%$187.41B$64.81B19.36112,900Positive News
Analyst Upgrade
DE
Deere & Company
4.56 of 5 stars
$509.99
-2.1%
$515.19
+1.0%
+46.3%$141.09B$51.72B24.6775,800Positive News
PCAR
PACCAR
4.5098 of 5 stars
$96.64
-1.0%
$104.59
+8.2%
-2.6%$51.27B$33.66B14.6430,100Dividend Announcement
CMI
Cummins
4.9225 of 5 stars
$327.39
-1.3%
$358.08
+9.4%
+24.3%$45.71B$34.10B15.1069,600
WAB
Wabtec
4.1069 of 5 stars
$213.04
-0.6%
$216.00
+1.4%
+35.5%$36.68B$10.39B33.3929,500Trending News
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade

Related Companies and Tools


This page (NASDAQ:RAIL) was last updated on 7/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
From Our Partners