The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets railroad freight car equipment in North America, Europe, and South America. It operates through Manufacturing, and Leasing & Management Services. The Manufacturing segment offers covered hopper cars, gondolas, open top hoppers, boxcars, center partition cars, tank cars, sustainable conversions, intermodal railcars, and railcar equipment; reconditioning of wheels and axles, new axle machining …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key risks
Revenue Volatility Signals Weak StickinessRevenue volatility is high (stability score 0.27), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 27.3th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The ranks #9 of 12
scored companies in Railroads by moat score — the top 75%.
The widest moat in the group is Canadian National Railway Compa (CNI)
at 79/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near GBX in Railroads
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 44
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 26
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 40
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 37
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 34
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The's moat score?
Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The (GBX) scores 36 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #9 of 12 scored companies in Railroads, the top 75%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 11 companies in Railroads. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (44/100) and its weakest is Customer Stickiness (26/100).
How does Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The compare with other Railroads companies?
Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The ranks #9 of 12 scored companies in Railroads by moat score. The widest moat in Railroads is Canadian National Railway Compa (CNI) at 79/100. The companies ranked closest are L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) at 46 just above it and Freightcar America, Inc. (RAIL) at 36 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 11 companies in Railroads. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and GBX scores: Pricing Power (40), Cost Advantage (44), Customer Stickiness (26), Capital Efficiency (40), Resilience (37), Scale & Market Position (34). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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