Wabtec (WAB) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What WAB does

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB) provides locomotives, equipment, systems, and services for the freight rail and passenger transit industries worldwide. It operates in two segments, Freight and Transit, offering diesel-electric and liquid natural gas-powered locomotives, engines, electric motors, propulsion systems, marine and mining products, positive train control equipment, electronically controlled pneumatic braking products, railway electronics, signal design and engineering services, distributed locomotive power, train cruise and remote controls, industrial/mobile Internet of Things hardware and software, edge-to-cloud analytics, asset performance management solutions, rail and shipper transportation management, port visibility and optimization solutions, and network optimization solutions.

Key numbers explained

• $292.22 is the current share price, which you can compare to the 52-week range of $186.06 – $306.64 to see where it sits relative to its recent trading range.
• The trailing P/E ratio of 39.4 (price-to-earnings ratio) tells you how much investors pay per dollar of the last twelve months' earnings; a higher number often reflects growth expectations.
• The forward P/E ratio of 23.5 uses expected future earnings and can be more relevant for judging today's price against what is coming next.
• EPS of $7.42 (earnings per share) is the portion of the $11.98 billion trailing twelve-month revenue that flowed to each share over the last year.
• Dividend yield of 0.43% (dividend yield) shows the annual dividend as a percentage of the share price; the ex-dividend date is Aug 18, 2026, and 15% of earnings are paid out as dividends.
• Beta of 0.92 (beta) suggests the stock tends to move slightly less than the overall market.
• Revenue growth of 17.5% year over year and a price change over the last 52 weeks of 50.6% highlight recent momentum, while the market cap of 49.36 billion USD places it among large-cap companies in the S&P 500.

Recent news

Recent headlines mention that Westinghouse Air Brake CEO Santana sold 2,183 shares for $612,000, that the company is following its more than $700 million Guinea deal and is seen by some as a buying opportunity or as already priced in, and that Union Pacific received the first two battery-electric locomotives for testing. Other stories note that Wabtec secured a more than $700 million rail services deal expanding its Africa footprint, and that analysts have highlighted two large-cap stocks to watch and one facing headwinds.

What to watch

Railroad and transit spending, commodity prices for fuels and metals, and global infrastructure trends can affect demand for WAB's products and services. Because WAB competes with peers such as Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), Textron (TXT), Xylem Inc. (XYL), Honeywell Aerospace (HONA), Emcor (EME), W. W. Grainger (GWW), and Copart (CPRT), shifts in their outlooks can influence sentiment. Regulatory changes, trade policies, and currency movements in international markets are also relevant factors to monitor.