Industrials

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

19 investable US stocks · data to Saturday, October 24, 2026

Acquirer's Multiple percentile today38th percentile

Dearer than in 72% of quarters since 1999Its usual range since 1999 is the 14th to 51st percentile (the middle 80% of quarters), with a median of the 32nd. Lower is cheaper: the 10th percentile is cheaper than 90% of the investable US market; the 50th is the middle.

Is it cheap because returns are depressed?

The industry is dear against its own past, and returns on assets are in their usual range. Free cash flow yield is in its usual range. A low multiple can be warranted when returns on assets are low, and a high one when they are high, so the multiple reads best next to returns and free cash flow, each against the industry's own history.

Over- or under-earning?

Earning about normally

Return on assets ranks at the 70th percentile of investable US stocks, against a median of the 64th and a low of the 25th since 1999. That is close to its usual level, so today's multiple is about right on a normalized basis. If earnings normalize, the multiple would likely fall: from the 38th percentile today (cheaper than 62% of investable US stocks) to around the 28th (cheaper than 72% of investable US stocks), judging by where it sat in past quarters when returns were at their usual level. If returns fell to their low, it would be around the 66th (dearer than 66% of investable US stocks).

Percentile	Today	Returns normal	Returns at low
Return on assets (higher is better)	70th	64th (median)	25th (low)
Acquirer's Multiple (lower is cheaper)	38th	28th	66th

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing's return on assets as a percentile, quarterly since 1999. The shaded band is its usual range; the dashed line its median.

Percentiles among investable US stocks. Return on assets is operating income over total assets, trailing 12 months. The last two columns show where it sat in past quarters when returns were within 7.5 points of their median (32 quarters) and of their low (6). The past, not a forecast.

Against its own history

Each chart is the industry's median stock as a percentile of all investable US stocks, quarterly since 1999. For the Acquirer's Multiple and debt to equity, lower is better. The shaded band is its usual range (the middle 80% of quarters); the dashed line is its long-run median; the dot is today. Green shading marks the better end of each scale and red the worse, and today's dot takes the colour of where it sits.

Acquirer's MultipleDearer than usualPercentile of enterprise value ÷ operating income: lower is cheaper. Dearer than in 72% of quarters since 1999.

Free cash flow yieldUsual rangePercentile of free cash flow yield: higher is a bigger yield. Higher than in 62% of quarters since 1999.

Shareholder yieldUsual rangeDividends plus buybacks, as a percentile: higher is a bigger yield. Lower than in 54% of quarters since 1999.

Dividend yieldUsual rangePercentile of dividend yield: higher is a bigger yield. Higher than in 68% of quarters since 1999.

Return on assets, 5-yrUsual rangePercentile of five-year return on assets: higher is better. Higher than in 66% of quarters since 1999.

Debt to equityLess debt than usualPercentile of debt to equity: lower is less debt. Less indebted than in 83% of quarters since 1999.

Company sizeUsual rangePercentile of market cap: higher is larger. Larger than in 57% of quarters since 1999.

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing stocks in the screens today

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Quarterly since 1999 from point-in-time data. Each quarter, every investable US stock (price above $3, market cap above $75M, average daily trading above $850,000, no OTC, ADRs or MLPs) is placed in a percentile (0-100) against all the others on each metric. An industry's value is the median percentile of its stocks. Industries follow FactSet's RBICS classification. Percentiles describe the past; they are not investment advice or a forecast.