Report
Matthew Young
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Genesee & Wyoming continues to navigate lethargic shipment demand for several commodities.

Genesee & Wyoming agreed to buy short-line railroad, Providence and Worcester (P&W), for $126 million in cash. Considering immediate cost synergies, we calculate the deal implies an EV/EBITDA multiple near 10 times. Including management's expected longer-term synergies and commercial growth opportunities, it's closer to 7 times, which we consider reasonable. This is a relatively small deal for G&W, and running the preliminary numbers through our model, we don’t expect it to have a ma...
Underlying
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Class A

Genesee & Wyoming owns or leases freight railroads worldwide. The company has three segments: North American Operations, which includes several regions that serve U.S. states and Canadian provinces and includes short line and regional freight railroads; Australian Operations, which serves New South Wales, the Northern Territory and South Australia and operates the Tarcoola-to-Darwin rail line; and U.K./European Operations, which is led by Freightliner Group Limited, a rail maritime intermodal operator and rail freight provider, as well as regional rail services in Continental Europe.

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Matthew Young

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