FreightCar America (RAIL) Operating Margin (2010 - 2025)

FreightCar America (RAIL) has reported Operating Margin for 16 consecutive years, with 9.07% the latest figure, recorded in Q3 2025.

• On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin rose 143.0% year-over-year to 9.07% in Q3 2025; TTM through Sep 2025 was 7.36%, a 263.0% increase from a year earlier, with the FY2024 full-year figure at 6.67%, up 374.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin was 9.07% for Q3 2025 at FreightCar America, up from 6.5% in the prior quarter.
• Over five years, Operating Margin peaked at 9.07% in Q3 2025 and troughed at 44.75% in Q1 2021.
• A 5-year average of 0.89% and a median of 2.26% in 2023 frame the typical range for Operating Margin.
• Across the five-year window, Operating Margin surged 28415 bps in 2021 and tumbled 530 bps in 2022, its largest moves.
• Over 5 years, Operating Margin stood at 0.08% in 2021, then plunged by 5862 bps to 4.84% in 2022, then jumped by 104 bps to 0.21% in 2023, then surged by 3893 bps to 8.45% in 2024, then advanced by 7 bps to 9.07% in 2025.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 9.07% (Q3 2025), 6.5% (Q2 2025), and 4.02% (Q1 2025), per Business Quant data.