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No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest was filed 15 May 2025.
FreightCar America, Inc.: what insiders have been doing
FreightCar America, Inc., founded in 1901, is a Industry company based in Chicago, United States. Its directors and officers file their transactions with SEC (Form 4). 6 insiders have disclosed 6 filings since 18 October 2025.
No open-market purchase or sale appears among the filings, only grants, plan transactions and other operations. Compensation-driven entries like these are tracked, but they say little about how insiders judge the share price.
Insider buying of FreightCar America, Inc. has been absent for the past year. Typically, a trade is published a median of 6 days after it takes place. US insiders must file a Form 4 within two business days of a trade.
For context, the typical company on the same exchange (median of 5,458 companies) published 22 filings over the same period, against 6 filings here. Our records for FreightCar America, Inc. go back to 2016, with 15 purchases and 4 sales on the open market in total. On the fundamentals side, the SEC filing (10-K) for the period ending 31 December 2025 lists revenue at 501.0 m USD and net income at 38.1 m USD.
Other companies in the same sector with recent insider buying flagged by our signals: Tennant Co and Butler National Corp. Source: insider filings from SEC (Form 4). Past trades are no guide to future returns.
Insider Decl.
108
Thresholds
n/a
Buy Volume
€765,791
15 ops. · all time
Sell Volume
€302,640
4 ops. · all time
Who traded when
BuySaleBenavides Alejandro Gil2 buys
Celia Perez1 sale
James R. Meyer1 buy
Since the insiders bought
- +0.0%Entry US$7.73 · Close at T+365 US$7.73
- -11.6%Entry US$10.79 · Close at T+365 US$9.54
- +30.1%Entry US$2.79 · Close at T+365 US$3.63
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
This score ranks the purchase within its own market. A position size is suggested only on the venues of the backtested strategy universe; elsewhere, signals stay on watch. Not investment advice.
Fundamental score
Ranked 13,885 of 24,148 companies
47.2
score / 100
Value66
Quality28
FCF yld15%
Earn yld19%
EV/EBITDA27.8x
ROE·
Gross mgn15%
Net mgn7.6%
Debt/EBITDA11.8x
Pillars2/3
Transparent value + quality ranking, distinct from the insider signal.
Financial data
as of FY 2025FY ended December 2025 · cache
US$6.28
Analyst consensus
3 analysts1.00/5
US$13.00Target US$14.67(+134%)US$16.00
Income statement
RevenueUS$501M
Gross profitUS$73.2M15% margin
EBITDAUS$12.9M3% margin
Net incomeUS$38.1M-2.7% margin
Valuation
PER (trailing)10.8x
PER (forward)5.9x
P/Book5.7x
Beta1.42
Balance sheet & cash
Market capUS$205.9M
Total debtUS$152.4M
Free Cash FlowUS$31.4M
Debt / Equity400%
Profitability & ownership
ROA3.5%
% insiders13.9%
% institutions30.3%
Last declaration on 16 June 2026
Declarations108 total
8,175 sharesCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-272641:0
8,959 shares@ US$8.930.027% mcap100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-152504:0
8,959 shares@ US$8.930.027% mcap100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-152205:0
11,133 shares@ US$10.76100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-010741:0
12,328 shares@ US$10.76100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-010742:0
5,266 shares@ US$10.76100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0001193125-26-010739:0
7,982 shares@ US$8.593850.7% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-090407:0
7,826 shares@ US$3.2218.8% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-086177:0
9,050 shares@ US$4.4830.5% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-083111:0
10,460 shares@ US$7.1750.8% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073034:0
10,460 shares@ US$7.1751.1% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073037:0
10,460 shares@ US$7.1715.6% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073045:0
10,460 shares@ US$7.179.3% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073063:0
10,460 shares@ US$7.17100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073031:0
500 shares@ US$7.261.4% of flowCommon Stock, par value $0.01SEC:0000950170-25-072764:0
Canonical exit: 12 Aug 2025 (T+90)
10,460 shares@ US$7.17100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073040:0
10,460 shares@ US$7.17100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-073042:0
2,500 shares@ US$7.026.9% of flowCommon Stock, par value $0.01SEC:0000950170-25-071146:0
Canonical exit: 11 Aug 2025 (T+90)
17,803 shares@ US$6.3891.7% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-044004:0
4,260 shares@ US$6.43100.0% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-038400:0
14,896 shares@ US$12.3746.9% of flowCommon StockSEC:0000950170-25-008001:0
19,276 shares0Common StockSEC:0000950170-25-004962:0
19,276 shares0Common StockSEC:0000950170-25-004965:0
6,622 shares0Common StockSEC:0000950170-25-004960:0
7,746 shares0Common StockSEC:0000950170-25-004968:0
25 of 108 declarations
About FreightCar America, Inc.
FreightCar America, Inc. is a U.S.-based industrial company focused on the design, manufacture, and supply of railroad freight cars, railcar parts, and related components. The company is listed on the NASDAQ market under the ticker RAIL and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. From an investor’s perspective, FreightCar America is a niche transportation-equipment manufacturer with direct exposure to North American rail freight spending, replacement demand, commodity input costs, and the timing of customer orders.
The company presents itself as a business with a long operating heritage, noting that it is celebrating 125 years and describing itself as a railcar maker with a legacy of cars operating across hundreds of millions of miles. That history matters in a sector where qualification, reliability, and customer relationships are important competitive advantages. FreightCar America’s core activity is centered on a broad portfolio of freight cars, including box cars, covered hoppers, open top hoppers, gondolas, and both intermodal and non-intermodal flat cars. These products are used to transport dry bulk commodities and containerized freight, which places the company in a specialized segment of the broader industrial and transportation universe.
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Competitively, FreightCar America operates as a focused railcar producer rather than a diversified transportation conglomerate. Its positioning is built around structural integrity, manufacturing quality, and proprietary welding and quality-control processes. Management has also emphasized commercial execution and product innovation, which is important in an industry where railcar demand can be cyclical and order timing can be uneven. A notable strategic move was the company’s 2024 expansion into tank car conversions through a multi-year agreement, broadening the product mix and supporting efforts to diversify beyond traditional freight-car offerings.
Recent developments have been supportive from an operating and market-share standpoint. In April 2025, FreightCar America announced orders for 1,250 railcars valued at approximately $141 million, describing that quarter as its largest new-railcar market-share intake in 15 years and highlighting continued share gains in its core markets. Later, in March 2026, the company reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, pointing to strong full-year gross profit growth, margin expansion, positive operating cash flow, and management’s expectation for growth in 2026. For equity investors, the key takeaway is that FreightCar America remains a specialized U.S. railcar manufacturer listed on NASDAQ in the United States, with meaningful exposure to the freight-rail cycle, but with improving commercial momentum and a broader product strategy than in prior years.
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