Trinity Industries (TRN) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Trinity Industries published the results on October 29, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• EPS and net income are from continuing operations attributable to Trinity, the basis of Trinity's headline. Including discontinued operations, diluted EPS was $0.22 in Q3 2026 and $0.37 in Q3 2025.
• Since Q3 2025 Trinity has divested two partially-owned leasing subsidiaries in its railcar partnership transactions, so Q3 2025 includes leasing revenue and profit that Q3 2026 does not.
• Segment revenues include sales between Trinity's two segments, which the eliminations row removes.

Source: Trinity Industries Q3 2026 results, October 29, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Trinity Industries splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Trinity Industries's Railcar Leasing and Services Group revenue was $286 million in Q3 2026, down 5% from $301 million in Q3 2025, 54% of total revenue.
• Trinity Industries's Rail Products Group revenue was $340 million in Q3 2026, up 22% from $279 million in Q3 2025, 63% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

Trinity's EPS guidance excludes items outside its core business operations.

In its Q3 2026 release, Trinity Industries said:

“Industry deliveries of below 25,000 railcars”

“Net fleet investment of $300 million to $350 million”

“Operating and administrative capital expenditures of $55 million to $65 million”

“We are raising our expectations for full-year secondary market gains on railcar sales and expect to finish the year within our EPS guidance range of $2.20 to $2.40.”

Source: Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 29, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the TRN forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

Revenues and diluted EPS from continuing operations, each as first reported in that quarter's release. Q4 2025 and Q2 2026 EPS include gains from Trinity's railcar partnership transactions, including a $131.6 million gain on the divestiture of a partially-owned leasing subsidiary in Q2 2026.

We do not hold a confirmed date for Trinity Industries's next report. Companies post the date on their investor relations site a few weeks ahead, usually with the time of the conference call.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 29, 2026

Trinity Industries makes and leases railcars in North America through two segments. In Q3 2026 the Rail Products Group, which builds new railcars and converts and repairs old ones, had revenues of $339.5 million, and the Railcar Leasing and Services Group $286.3 million. Sales between the two are removed through eliminations of $90.7 million, leaving total revenues of $535.1 million, up 18% from $454.1 million. (Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; Trinity Q3 2026 conference call prepared remarks, Oct 29, 2026)

Trinity attributed the rise to higher external railcar deliveries and a higher mix of external repairs, partly offset by the divestiture of two partially-owned leasing subsidiaries since Q3 2025. New railcar deliveries were 2,030, against 1,680 a year earlier, and Trinity also delivered 355 sustainable railcar conversions, against none. (Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Leasing revenue fell to $286.3 million from $301.0 million because the consolidated fleet is smaller after the partnership transactions: Trinity's partially-owned lease fleet went from 23,255 railcars to none, while its wholly-owned fleet grew to 97,160 from 89,595 and the investor-owned fleet grew to 50,260 from 33,645. Higher rents and management fees partly offset the decline. (Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; Trinity Q3 2026 conference call prepared remarks, Oct 29, 2026)

Rail Products customers include railroads, leasing companies and industrial shippers of refined products and chemicals, energy, agricultural, construction and metals, and consumer products, according to the 10-K. On the call Trinity said industry carload volume was up 3% year over year, railcars in storage had fallen to 18%, and the industry was on track to scrap about 40,000 railcars in 2026, more than expected new production. (Trinity Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 19, 2026; Trinity Q3 2026 conference call prepared remarks, Oct 29, 2026)

Trinity Industries' diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.27 in Q3 2026, against $0.38 a year earlier. Trinity does not report an adjusted EPS figure for the quarter. Operating profit fell to $95.6 million from $118.6 million because gains on lease portfolio sales dropped to $8.5 million from $21.7 million, selling, engineering and administrative expenses rose to $55.1 million from $45.2 million, and the divested partnerships no longer contribute. (Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

A $13.4 million gain on selling part of Trinity's Longview manufacturing facility helped the quarter; without it, the CFO said, Rail Products' segment margin would have been 5.1% instead of 9.0%. The effective tax rate rose to 29.0% from 23.0%, which Trinity linked to income taxes on its foreign operations. Interest expense, net was $65.8 million, against $69.8 million. (Trinity Q3 2026 conference call prepared remarks, Oct 29, 2026; Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted weighted average shares were 81.0 million, against 81.9 million a year earlier. Trinity repurchased 787,000 shares for $23 million in the quarter and has returned $118.7 million to shareholders through dividends and buybacks in the first nine months of 2026. (Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; Trinity Q3 2026 conference call prepared remarks, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Trinity Industries gives full-year guidance in each release. For 2026 it expects industry deliveries below 25,000 railcars, net fleet investment of $300 million to $350 million, operating and administrative capital expenditures of $55 million to $65 million, and EPS of $2.20 to $2.40 excluding items outside its core operations, a range it held with Q3 results. (Trinity Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

On the call the CFO raised Trinity's expectation for 2026 secondary market railcar gains to $180 million to $200 million and said Rail Products' full-year segment margin should land between 5% and 6%. Trinity gave no formal 2027 guidance but said it expects 2026 to be the cyclical low point for industry deliveries. (Trinity Q3 2026 conference call prepared remarks, Oct 29, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Trinity Industries, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Trinity Industries's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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Every number on this page can be traced to a document Trinity Industries published. Checking one takes a couple of minutes, and it is worth doing before you quote a figure anywhere.

• The results release is the document linked in the source line above. Companies publish it on their investor relations site at the moment results go out, and it carries the headline tables: revenue, operating income, net income and EPS for the quarter and the year-ago quarter.
• The same release is filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99.1 to a Form 8-K under Item 2.02, usually on the day of the report. The SEC copy does not change after the fact, which makes it the safer thing to link when you cite a number.
• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

A walk-through of every line in a release, with what each one tells you, is in how to read an earnings report.