FreightCar America (RAIL) Return on Invested Capital (2011 - 2025)

FreightCar America (RAIL) has 15 years of Return on Invested Capital data on file, last reported at 0.01% in Q3 2025.

• Quarterly Return on Invested Capital fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.01% in Q3 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Sep 2025 was 0.01% (down 1.0% YoY) and the FY2024 annual result came in at 0.0%, up 4.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Invested Capital fell to 0.01% in Q3 2025 per RAIL's latest filing, from 0.0% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.77% in Q1 2021 and bottomed at 0.08% in Q3 2021.
• The 5-year median for Return on Invested Capital is 0.0% (2024), against an average of 0.05%.
• The widest annual swing landed in 2021, when Return on Invested Capital surged 77 bps; it then sank 76 bps in 2022.
• Tracing RAIL's Return on Invested Capital over 5 years: stood at 0.33% in 2021, then tumbled by 86 bps to 0.05% in 2022, then slumped by 108 bps to 0.0% in 2023, then climbed by 27 bps to 0.0% in 2024, then tumbled by 269 bps to 0.01% in 2025.
• Per Business Quant, the three latest RAIL Return on Invested Capital figures stand at 0.01% (Q3 2025), 0.0% (Q2 2025), and 0.01% (Q1 2025).

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