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Financial-condition grades for SEC filers
Company Report · as of Oct 9, 2026
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| FreightCar America, Inc.RAIL · manufacturing | |
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| Grade |  C/Don the C/D boundary of 255 graded peers; percentile 59.1, sampling error 3.0 points; lower is stronger |
| Rank | 151 of 255 |
| Profitability | Dpercentile 63.4 |
| Solvency | Dpercentile 67.8 |
| Growth and financing | Bpercentile 23.2 |
| Reliability | 0.87 AUCfailure model, filers with $120M to $591M assets; 95% interval 0.83 to 0.90; 206 events, 2020 to 2025 |
| Peer failure rate | 1.03% a yearItem 1.03 bankruptcies, same asset band, 2012 to 2025 |
| Size band | $120M to $591M assetstotal assets $290.0M[1] |
| Standard universe | insiderevenue above $1M and assets above $10M[1-2] |
| Warnings | none activenot computable: short runway, distress, fortress balance sheet |
| Inputs computable | 9 of 14 |
| Graded from | filings received through Mar 9, 2026214 days before the rescan; every figure keyed to the SEC receipt date |
| Last close | $6.172026-10-08; market equity $202.3M; iex feed |
| Price used in grade | None |
| Share price, twelve months to the rescansplit-adjusted close; a lollipop at every rescan carries the letter held then; baseline ticks are SEC receipt dates of the inputs; ranges and dragging scroll the full history | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Percentile at every rescan on file, Jan 21, 2012 to Oct 9, 2026; stronger toward the top. Hover for the date. Open this report as it stood on | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Each date opens the report as it stood on that rescan. |
Business, in the company's words. Opening of Item 1 of the 10-K received Mar 9, 2026; the document on sec.gov.
Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence FreightCar America, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“FreightCar”), with its subsidiaries (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our” refers to FreightCar and its subsidiaries), is a diversi...
The Fourteen Inputs [top]
Lower percentile is stronger. Source numbers open the SEC filing; a range that spans filings opens the sources table.
| Input | Percentile, 0 to 100 | Value | Source | Peer median | Percentile | Peers | Period end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profitability, sleeve percentile 63.4 | |||||||
| Gross profitability | 25.2% | [1,3] | 21.9% | 32.8 | 275 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Return on invested capital | not computable | 9.7% | |||||
| required facts have no common fiscal period end | |||||||
| Accruals ratio | 1.3% | [1,4-6] | (3.6%) | 84.7 | 308 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Gross margin stability, five years | 3.3 pts | [2-3,7-14] | 2.1 pts | 72.8 | 229 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Solvency, sleeve percentile 67.8 | |||||||
| Twelve-month failure probability | not computable | 0.04% | |||||
| latest liabilities, cash plus short-term investments, book equity, and shares are required | |||||||
| Altman Z double-prime | 0.13 | [1,15-20] | 3.66 | 75.7 | 244 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Net debt to EBITDA | not computable | 1.78x | |||||
| required facts have no common fiscal period end | |||||||
| Interest coverage | not computable | 5.09x | |||||
| latest aligned inputs end 2019-12-31; latest annual assets end 2025-12-31 | |||||||
| Current ratio | 1.87x | [15-16] | 2.25x | 59.9 | 325 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Growth and financing, sleeve percentile 23.2 | |||||||
| Revenue growth, three-year compound | 11.5% | [2,8,10,12] | 2.1% | 17.5 | 269 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Free cash flow growth, three-year compound | 104.2% | [5,21-27] | 13.9% | 3.6 | 139 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Reinvestment rate | not computable | 26.4% | |||||
| pretax income must exceed the validity floor and imply a 0%-100% tax rate | |||||||
| Asset growth, three years | 13.2% | [1,6,28-29] | 4.4% | 19.1 | 279 | 2025-12-31 | |
| Net share issuance, one year | 0.07% | [30-31] | 0.01% | 52.5 | 243 | 2026-03-03 | |
Gross profitability. Revenue less cost of goods sold, over total assets.
Accruals ratio. Net income less operating cash flow, over average assets; lower is stronger.
Gross margin stability, five years. Standard deviation of gross margin; lower is stronger.
Twelve-month failure probability. CHS model; lower is stronger.
Net debt to EBITDA. Lower is stronger.
Net share issuance, one year. Split-adjusted; lower is stronger.
Sleeves are equal-weighted; within a sleeve each computable input carries equal weight. Composite 0.034; sampling error 3.0 percentile points on 255 peers.
Among 255 Peers [top]
Composite score of every graded peer, smoothed. Vertical rules are the letter band edges at the 20th, 40th, 60th and 80th percentiles. Small dots are the six largest peers by market equity.
| Rank | Company | Percentile | Letter | Warnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 146 | Northern Technologies International Corp. (NTIC) Northern Technologies International Corp. (NTIC) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 57.1 Nasdaq · Coating, Engraving & Allied Services market equity $72.7M; last close $7.80 No active warnings; 7 of 14 inputs | 57.1 | C/D | |
| 147 | Kaiser Aluminum Corp. (KALU) Kaiser Aluminum Corp. (KALU) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 57.5 Nasdaq · Rolling Drawing & Extruding of Nonferrous Metals market equity $2.4B; last close $150.08 Warnings: fortress balance sheet; 9 of 14 inputs | 57.5 | C/D | fortress balance sheet |
| 148 | RBC Bearings Inc. (RBC) RBC Bearings Inc. (RBC) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 57.9 NYSE · Ball & Roller Bearings market equity $15.5B; last close $491.47 No active warnings; 11 of 14 inputs | 57.9 | C/D | |
| 149 | Steel Dynamics Inc. (STLD) Steel Dynamics Inc. (STLD) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 58.3 Nasdaq · Steel Works, Blast Furnaces & Rolling Mills (Coke Ovens) market equity $33.6B; last close $234.08 No active warnings; 12 of 14 inputs | 58.3 | C/D | |
| 150 | Ingersoll Rand Inc. (IR) Ingersoll Rand Inc. (IR) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 58.7 NYSE · General Industrial Machinery & Equipment market equity $30.3B; last close $78.00 No active warnings; 12 of 14 inputs | 58.7 | C/D | |
| 151 | FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) FreightCar America, Inc. (RAIL) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 59.1 Nasdaq · Railroad Equipment market equity $202.3M; last close $6.17 No active warnings; 9 of 14 inputs | 59.1 | C/D | |
| 152 | Nucor Corp. (NUE) Nucor Corp. (NUE) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 59.4 NYSE · Steel Works, Blast Furnaces & Rolling Mills (Coke Ovens) market equity $55.8B; last close $245.91 No active warnings; 8 of 14 inputs | 59.4 | C/D | |
| 153 | Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 59.8 NYSE · Guided Missiles & Space Vehicles & Parts market equity $117.2B; last close $507.94 No active warnings; 12 of 14 inputs | 59.8 | C/D | |
| 154 | Corning Inc. (GLW) Corning Inc. (GLW) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 60.2 NYSE · Drawing & Insulating of Nonferrous Wire market equity $131.6B; last close $152.84 No active warnings; 10 of 14 inputs | 60.2 | C/D | |
| 155 | DMC Global Inc. (BOOM) DMC Global Inc. (BOOM) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 60.6 Nasdaq · Miscellaneous Primary Metal Products market equity $118.7M; last close $5.79 No active warnings; 10 of 14 inputs | 60.6 | C/D | |
| 156 | Sonoco Products Co. (SON) Sonoco Products Co. (SON) C/Don the C/D boundary; percentile 61.0 NYSE · Paperboard Containers & Boxes market equity $4.8B; last close $48.42 No active warnings; 12 of 14 inputs | 61.0 | C/D |
| Peer policy | Letter | Percentile | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|
| all graded filers, equal sleeves | C | 48.1 | 2204 |
| sector peers, equal sleeves (the grade) | C/D | 59.1 | 255 |
| same exchange, equal sleeves | C | 46.5 | 1219 |
| sector peers, equal inputs | B/C | 42.5 | 255 |
Each letter is one fifth of the 255 graded peers, about 51 companies. A boundary letter (A/B, B/C, C/D, D/E) marks a percentile within one sampling error of a band edge.
What the Price Implies [top]
Market measures at the 2026-10-08 close. None enters the grade. Percentile among graded peers with the same measure.
| Measure | Value | Peer median | Percentile | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve-month price change, skipping the latest month | (29.6%) | 13.7% | 11 | hotter than 11 of 100 peers |
| Distance from 52-week high | (58.3%) | (24.3%) | 10 | closer to its high than 10 of 100 peers |
| EBIT to enterprise value | 14.3% | 4.1% | 97 | pricier than 3 of 100 peers |
| Free cash flow yield | 15.5% | 3.4% | 96 | pricier than 4 of 100 peers |
| Book value to price | 0.18 | 0.34 | 21 | pricier than 79 of 100 peers |
| Sales to price | 2.47 | 0.54 | 88 | pricier than 12 of 100 peers |
| Composite equity issuance, five years | 74.4% | (9.5%) | 96 | more equity-funded than 96 of 100 peers |
| Relative strength against the sector, log excess return | (0.48) | (0.00) | 11 | ahead of 11 of 100 peers |
Inputs: market equity $202.3M; EBIT $33.9M; free cash flow $31.4M; book equity $36.2M; sales $500.7M; debt $100.7M; cash $65.3M[32].
Diagnostics [top]
Diagnostics do not feed the grade.
| Piotroski F-score: 7 of 9, period end 2025-12-31 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Return on assets above zero | 17.0% | ✓ pass[4,6] |
| Operating cash flow above zero | $34.8M | ✓ pass[5] |
| Return on assets improved | 46.2 pts | ✓ pass[4,6,28,33] |
| Operating cash flow exceeds net income | -$3.3M | ✗ fail[4-5] |
| Long-term leverage fell | (5.7 pts) | ✓ pass[1,6,28,34-35] |
| Current ratio improved | 7.5 pts | ✓ pass[15-16,36-37] |
| No new shares issued | 0.1% | ✗ fail[30-31] |
| Gross margin improved | 2.6 pts | ✓ pass[2-3,7-8] |
| Asset turnover improved | 8.4 pts | ✓ pass[2,6,8,28] |
| Cash, filings, liquidity | |
|---|---|
| Cash and equivalents | n/a |
| Operating cash flow, four quarters | n/a[5,38-41] |
| Months of runway | not finite |
| cash is missing at the end of the latest cash-flow quarter | |
| Late filings, two years | 0 |
| NT 10-K or NT 10-Q | |
| Days since last periodic filing | 67 |
| 10-Q received Aug 3, 2026 | |
| Median daily dollar volume | $1.4M |
| 63 sessions | |
| Days since newest grade input | 214 |
Downloads [top]
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Sources [top]
Every citation on this page. Filing opens the SEC index page for that submission; viewer opens the SEC interactive data for the same filing; series opens the SEC XBRL API record for that tag and company.
| # | Concept | XBRL tag | Value | Period end | Received | Form | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $290.0M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 2 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $500.7M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 3 | gross profit | us-gaap:GrossProfit | $73.2M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 4 | net income | us-gaap:ProfitLoss | $38.1M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 5 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $34.8M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 6 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $224.2M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 7 | gross profit | us-gaap:GrossProfit | $67.0M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 8 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $557.7M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 9 | gross profit | us-gaap:GrossProfit | $41.8M | 2023-12-31 | 2025-03-12 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 10 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $356.8M | 2023-12-31 | 2025-03-12 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 11 | gross profit | us-gaap:GrossProfit | $25.8M | 2022-12-31 | 2024-03-18 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 12 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $361.5M | 2022-12-31 | 2024-03-18 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 13 | gross profit | us-gaap:GrossProfit | $11.5M | 2021-12-31 | 2023-03-27 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 14 | revenue | us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax | $199.8M | 2021-12-31 | 2023-03-27 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 15 | current assets | us-gaap:AssetsCurrent | $160.0M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 16 | current liabilities | us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent | $85.6M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 17 | retained earnings | us-gaap:RetainedEarningsAccumulatedDeficit | -$182.5M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 18 | operating income | us-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss | $33.9M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 19 | book equity | us-gaap:StockholdersEquityIncludingPortionAttributableToNoncontrollingInterest | -$107.4M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 20 | liabilities | us-gaap:Liabilities | $397.5M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 21 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $3.4M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 22 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $44.9M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 23 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $5.0M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 24 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $4.8M | 2023-12-31 | 2025-03-12 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 25 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $12.7M | 2023-12-31 | 2025-03-12 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 26 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $11.5M | 2022-12-31 | 2024-03-18 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 27 | capital expenditure | us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment | $7.8M | 2022-12-31 | 2024-03-18 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 28 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $259.5M | 2023-12-31 | 2025-03-12 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 29 | assets | us-gaap:Assets | $199.7M | 2022-12-31 | 2024-03-18 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 30 | shares outstanding | dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding | 19,073,475 | 2026-03-03 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 31 | shares outstanding | dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding | 19,060,397 | 2025-03-06 | 2025-03-12 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 32 | shares outstanding | dei:EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding | 32,791,280 | 2026-07-31 | 2026-08-03 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 33 | net income | us-gaap:ProfitLoss | -$75.8M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 34 | long term debt | us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent | $97.5M | 2025-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 35 | long term debt | us-gaap:LongTermDebtNoncurrent | $105.5M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 36 | current assets | us-gaap:AssetsCurrent | $145.0M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 37 | current liabilities | us-gaap:LiabilitiesCurrent | $80.8M | 2024-12-31 | 2026-03-09 | 10-K | filing · viewer · series |
| 38 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $7.8M | 2026-06-30 | 2026-08-03 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 39 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | -$4.3M | 2026-03-31 | 2026-05-04 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 40 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $24.7M | 2025-09-30 | 2025-11-10 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
| 41 | operating cash flow | us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities | $21.3M | 2025-06-30 | 2026-08-03 | 10-Q | filing · viewer · series |
Limitations [top]
Grade boundary. Percentile 59.1 is 0.9 points from the nearest band edge; sampling error is 3.0 points.
Peer group. Sector assignment from four-digit SIC codes, hand-tuned and published. The grade under three alternative peer policies is tabled above.
Size. Within a sector the letter tracks size. Among graded filers in the smallest asset band, 72% grade E and 0% grade A; in the largest, 13% grade E and 21% grade A. Universe as of Oct 9, 2026.
Failure model. filings 2012-01-01 to 2019-12-31 fit, filings 2020-01-01 to 2025-12-31 test; status post hoc pending confirmation. pre-registered on 2026 filings once their 12-month outcome windows close; supported if the paired per-quintile gain over the pooled model has a lower bound above 0.05.
Input validity. Revenue or total assets at or below $100,000 sets the degenerate-inputs flag. An input whose denominator is at or below $100,000 is left not computable rather than ranked.
Returns. No input on this page has a post-2015 confidence interval on returns that excludes zero. The grade ranks reported financial condition and is not a return forecast.
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