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GATX Corporation: Revenues rose 8.0% year on year

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GATX Corporation (NYSE:GMT). Last Market Price: 35.36, Change: -0.04, % Change: (-0.11%). Shares trade in the range of 34.19 – 36.25 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 1.65B dollars, making it a Small Cap Stock and has 46.58M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.47, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 1.85; P/E of 19.13. It operates in Transportation sector and belongs to Misc. Transportation industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 98%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 42.84 and a 52 week low of $ 28.90. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 291,407.Volume traded in the last session was at 69,941, 0.24 times the average volume.

  • Reports Q3 (Sep)
    • EPS of $0.67 better than the estimates
    • Revenues rose 8.0% year on year to $339.7 million

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 8.01%, an Operating margin of 10.83%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 1.90%, Return on average equity of 9.03%. The organization has an employee strength of 1,947

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.


Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 337.80 million dollars, an estimate high of 348.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 324.10 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 314.60 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 286.00 million dollars, an estimate high of 291.80 million dollars and an estimate low of 275.70 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 268.50 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 0.59 dollars, an estimate high of 0.65 dollars and an estimate low of 0.55 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.47 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Mar-12 show a mean of 0.40 dollars, an estimate high of 0.46 dollars and an estimate low of 0.34 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 0.48 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 314.30 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 314.60 million dollars, 0.3 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 265.98 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 265.00 million dollars, 0.98 million dollars less than estimates.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing in his yacht.


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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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