FreightCar America Inc (NASDAQ:RAIL) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, June 18, with the stock price down by -1.76% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $8.37.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $8.52, falling within a range of $8.2628 and $8.6799. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.909. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $16.10, and the low was $3.02. On the whole, RAIL has fluctuated by 11.01% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of FreightCar America Inc currently standing at about $160.02 million, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-05.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 564.57M, with a low estimate of 100.55M and a high estimate of 126.5M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 114.89M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that RAIL’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of RAIL currently trading nearly 4.03% and 20.89% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 57.63, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.64% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 3.97%. Furthermore, FreightCar America Inc (RAIL)’s beta value is 1.91, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.45.
A comparison of FreightCar America Inc (RAIL) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. RAIL showed an intraday change of -1.76% in last session, and over the past year, it grew by 124.40%%.
Data on historical trading for FreightCar America Inc (NASDAQ:RAIL) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.15 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 233.28K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 19.04 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 25.03% of FreightCar America Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 43.34% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 0.36 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 1.47. According to the data, the short interest in FreightCar America Inc (RAIL) stood at 298.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 0.42 million. The stock has fallen by -6.58% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the RAIL stock heading into the next quarter.
