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GATX Corporation

IndustrialsTransportation & Utilities
Ticker GATXCHICAGO, ILFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $77.78Diluted shares 35.8M

GATX Corporation is a leading global railcar lessor and aircraft spare engine leasing company founded in 1898. The company operates through three primary business segments: Rail North America, Rail International, and Engine Leasing, with financial results from its tank container leasing business reported in the Other… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$1.74BFY2025
+9.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $2.05B
0.00%FY2025
$333.30MFY2025
+17.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $369.30M
12.12%FY2025
+0.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 13.22%
Cash & financing
$648.10MFY2025
+7.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $837.90M
$-668.60MFY2025
+37.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $-4.68B
4.56FY2025
Was 3.37× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 4.43
35.9MFY2025
No change, year over year
Last 12 mo 35.8M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What GATX Corporation does

In the company’s own words

GATX Corporation is a leading global railcar lessor and aircraft spare engine leasing company founded in 1898. The company operates through three primary business segments: Rail North America, Rail International, and Engine Leasing, with financial results from its tank container leasing business reported in the Other segment. GATX maintains its corporate website at www.gatx.com.

The company owns one of the largest railcar lease fleets in the world, comprising approximately 156,000 railcars as of December 31, 2025. Rail North America operates roughly 107,600 railcars and 627 locomotives across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, serving approximately 800 customers primarily in the transportation, chemical, petroleum, and food/agriculture industries. The fleet includes tank cars, freight cars, specialty covered hoppers, open-top cars, boxcars, and flatcars that transport over 580 different commodities. Rail International operates approximately 48,600 railcars across Europe and India, with GATX Rail Europe serving roughly 300 customers and Rail India serving 20 customers. The company maintains an extensive maintenance network including six major facilities in North America and a significant facility in Poland.

Through its Engine Leasing segment, GATX owns one of the largest aircraft spare engine lease portfolios globally. The business comprises 50 percent-owned joint ventures with Rolls-Royce plc, collectively owning 456 engines, and GATX Engine Leasing, a wholly owned entity managing 46 aircraft spare engines. The Other segment includes Trifleet, which owns and manages tank containers leased to approximately 300 customers in chemical, industrial gas, energy, and pharmaceutical industries.

As of December 31, 2025, GATX employed 2,371 persons globally, with approximately 39 percent represented by unions. The company reported total assets of 18.0 billion dollars. In January 2026, GATX completed a significant acquisition of approximately 101,000 railcars from Wells Fargo through a newly formed joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, establishing GATX's initial 30 percent ownership stake with options to increase to 100 percent over time.

Company details
Sector
Industrials
Industry (SIC)
Transportation & Utilities
Headquarters
CHICAGO, IL
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
40211
SIC
4700

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-205.21M$410.42M$1.03B$1.64B$2.26B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns GATX Corporation — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

367
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$3.02B
held by funds, at market
47.4%
of shares held by funds
18
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · GATX Corporation’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.17%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
Avantis U.S. Small Cap Value ETF
AVUV · American Century ETF Trust
0.68%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.20%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.08%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

GATX Corporation’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 18 issues of GATX Corporation’s debt, $824.85M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.86%, maturing 2026 to 2054.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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