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U.S. Railroads: Do CSX Results Provide a Signal?

Posted: April 17, 2013 at 12:34 pm

After CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX) reported its first quarter results last night, investors began selling the railroad company’s stock and shares are down about 3% this morning. The company ...
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Greenbrier Tries to Make Shareholders Forget Icahn Offer

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 7:45 am

Activist investor Carl Icahn made a play for railcar maker Greenbrier Companies Inc. (NYSE: GBX) last December, but quickly reversed himself after the firm rejected his $22 per share offer. ...
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Railcar Maker’s Results Just OK (GBX)

Posted: January 9, 2013 at 7:16 am

The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE: GBX) reported first-quarter fiscal 2013 diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on revenue of $415 million. In the same period a year ago, the railcar ...
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Plains All American Pipeline Adds to Rail Capacity

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 10:55 am

Pipeline MLP Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE: PAA) will build a new crude oil rail facility in Tampa, Colo., to receive and transport up to 68,000 barrels per day ...
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Union Pacific Chugs Along

Posted: July 19, 2012 at 9:39 am

Shares of Union Pacific Corp. (NYSE: UNP) are up about 18% over the past 12 months, trailing only Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (NYSE: CP), up 21%, and Kansas City Southern ...
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Rail Car Maker Doubles EPS Estimate (RAIL, ARII, GBX, CSX, UNP, CP)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 10:20 am

The past year has not been particularly kind to rail car makers. That may be changing, with FreightCar America Inc.’s (NASDAQ: RAIL) first quarter earnings report out this morning. Despite ...
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CSX Kicks Off Railroad Earnings with a Bang (CNI, CP, CSX, KSU, NSC, UNP)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 10:41 am

US railroads have suffered from the warm winter with falling volume on coal transportation, but rising prices for gasoline and diesel fuel have bumped up container (intermodal) traffic and taken ...
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Railroad Traffic Continues Decline on Lack of Coal Shipments (GWR, CSX, UNP, NSC, KSU)

Posted: April 13, 2012 at 8:10 am

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE: GWR) this morning released its traffic volume report for March and for the first quarter of 2012. The news is not good, but it’s also ...
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Has Potential Upside Gone Missing in Transport Stocks? (CSX, NSC, UNP, CP, JBHT, LSTR, DSX, DRYS, EXM, FRO)

Posted: December 1, 2011 at 2:30 pm

Railroads and trucking companies have, for the most part, seen share prices rise over the past 12 months, while ocean-going shippers have taken a severe beating. Of four railroads, CSX ...
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Expected Price Gains in Transportation Stocks (CSX, NSC, UNP, CP, DSX, DRYS, EXM, FRO, JBHT, LSTR)

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 2:06 pm

Transportation stocks get a lot more attention as economic bellwethers than they do as market participants. Railroads, ships, and trucks are not particularly glamorous, and the industries are so ...
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