CAI International, Inc. operates as transportation finance and logistics company in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Container Leasing, Rail Leasing, and Logistics. It leases, re-leases, and disposes equipment; and contracts for the repair, repositioning, and storage of equipment. The company leases its container equipment to lessees under long-term, short-term, and finance leases. It also sells containers; and provides container management services to third-party investors, as well as sells used containers. In addition, the company leases railcars consisting of box cars for paper and forest products; covered hoppers for grain, cement, sand, plastic pallets, and other industrial products; general purpose tank cars that are used to transport food-grade, and other liquid and gaseous commodities; gondolas for coal and steel; and general service flat cars. Further, it offers domestic and international logistics services, including intermodal, truck brokerage, port drayage, warehousing, international ocean freight, and freight forwarding, as well as the arrangement and coordination of international air freight services and customs brokerage; international export and import services for full container loads, less than container loads, perishable cargo, project cargo, and airfreight; and transportation management services and technology solutions, including shipment optimization, load consolidation, mode selection, carrier management, load planning and execution, and Web-based shipment visibility. As of December 31, 2017, the company had a container fleet comprised 1,282,739 cost equivalent units; and an owned fleet of 7,172 railcars in North America. The company was formerly known as Container Applications International, Inc. and changed its name to CAI International, Inc. in February 2007. CAI International, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Industry, Sector and Symbol
Industry Equipment rental & leasing, not elsewhere classified
Sub-IndustryN/A
SectorTransportation
SymbolNYSE:CAI
CUSIPN/A
Phone415-788-0100
Debt
Debt-to-Equity Ratio2.52
Current Ratio0.46
Quick Ratio0.46
Price-To-Earnings
Trailing P/E Ratio7.78
Forward P/E Ratio5.79
P/E Growth0.72
Sales & Book Value
Annual Sales$348.39 million
Price / Sales1.31
Cash Flow$8.9719 per share
Price / Cash2.49
Book Value$29.26 per share
Price / Book0.76
Profitability
EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$2.87
Net Income$72.06 million
Net Margins23.17%
Return on Equity12.58%
Return on Assets2.88%
Miscellaneous
Employees215
Outstanding Shares20,490,000
