The historical rank and industry rank for Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's Return-on-Tangible-Equity or its related term are showing as below:
WAB'
s Return-on-Tangible-Equity Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 86.41 Med: 86.41 Max: 86.41
Current: Negative Tangible Equity
During the past 13 years, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's highest Return-on-Tangible-Equity was 86.41%. The lowest was 86.41%. And the median was 86.41%.
WAB's Return-on-Tangible-Equity is ranked better than 99.9% of 958
companies
in the Transportation industry
Industry Median: 10.185
vs WAB: Negative Tangible Equity
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Return-on-Tangible-Equity Historical Data
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Return-on-Tangible-Equity Chart
Competitive Comparison of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's Return-on-Tangible-Equity
For the Railroads subindustry, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's Return-on-Tangible-Equity, along with its competitors' market caps and Return-on-Tangible-Equity data, can be viewed below:
* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's Return-on-Tangible-Equity Distribution in the Transportation Industry
For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's Return-on-Tangible-Equity distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies's Return-on-Tangible-Equity falls into.
* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD. * For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.
In the calculation of annual Return-on-Tangible-Equity, the net income of the last fiscal year and the average total shareholder tangible equity over the fiscal year are used. In calculating the quarterly data,
the net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2025) net income data.
Return-on-Tangible-Equity is displayed in the 10-year financial page.
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies (NYSE:WAB) Return-on-Tangible-Equity Explanation
Return-on-Tangible-Equity measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholder's tangible equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' tangible equity (shareholders equity minus intangibles). Return-on-Tangible-Equity shows how well a company uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. Return-on-Tangible-Equitys between 15% and 20% are considered desirable.
Be Aware
Net Income is used.
Because a company can increase its Return-on-Tangible-Equity by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the leverage ratio when investing in high Return-on-Tangible-Equity companies. Like Return-on-Tangible-Asset, Return-on-Tangible-Equity is calculated with only 12 months data. Fluctuations in company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.
Asset light businesses require very few assets to generate very high earnings. Their Return-on-Tangible-Equitys can be extremely high.
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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Business Description
Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp provides value-added, technology-based products and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries and the mining, marine, and industrial markets. It provides its products and services through two main business segments: Freight and Transit. The company generates maximum revenue from the Freight segment, which manufactures new and modernized locomotives, provides aftermarket parts and services to existing locomotives, provides components to new and existing freight cars; builds new commuter locomotives; supplies rail control and infrastructure products, including electronics, positive train control equipment, signal design, and engineering services. Geographically, it generates a majority of its revenue from the United States.
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