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Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for WAB, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.39 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How WAB has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.39 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp moved 0.39% on average · correlation 0.14 · higher than 39% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.38 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.77% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.68% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Railroads · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Railroads

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against WAB on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp

WAB in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Wabtec builds locomotives and the systems that keep freight and passenger trains running, split across a Freight segment and a Transit segment. It makes diesel-electric and gas-powered locomotives, braking and signalling equipment, positive train control gear, and software for tracking and managing rail assets. It also sells freight-car components, compressors, HVAC systems and transit parts such as doors and passenger information systems, and it services and overhauls locomotives and railcars over their working life. The company is based in Pittsburgh and serves railway and transit operators worldwide.
Where it sits in the stack
Wabtec sits outside our Rubin index, the diary's AI build-out stack; it belongs to the industrials sleeve of our universe, in the railroads industry, supplying locomotives and rail-control systems rather than any part of the compute chain.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group does not carry a comparison set for this name; the market usually places it alongside Trinity Industries and Greenbrier as other freight-rail equipment and rolling-stock makers.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It holds a seat in the S&P 500 but no seat in our Rubin index, and it carries no Closelooknet score yet; the diary has not logged any quotes or mentions for it.
What the diary watches
The diary watches freight-rail traffic and locomotive order and overhaul cycles, since these drive demand for both new equipment and the services business.

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.41%, quarterly · last 0.31 USD on 2026-08-18

Dividends and capital return

What WAB pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.18 USD per share · a 0.41% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +24.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.95 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.31 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-18
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.17 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.80 USD · 2025: 0.99 USD · 2026: 0.93 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-14

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp (WAB)?

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp trades as WAB on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is WAB in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does WAB trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -0.4% vs the 50-day and +11% vs the 200-day average, 6.1% below the 52-week high and +55.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp had a beta of 0.39 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 39% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.77% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp do?

Wabtec builds locomotives and the systems that keep freight and passenger trains running, split across a Freight segment and a Transit segment. It makes diesel-electric and gas-powered locomotives, braking and signalling equipment, positive train control gear, and software for tracking and managing rail assets. It also sells freight-car components, compressors, HVAC systems and transit parts such as doors and passenger information systems, and it services and overhauls locomotives and railcars over their working life. Closelooknet's peer group does not carry a comparison set for this name; the market usually places it alongside Trinity Industries and Greenbrier as other freight-rail equipment and rolling-stock makers.

Where does Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp sit in the AI build-out?

Wabtec sits outside our Rubin index, the diary's AI build-out stack; it belongs to the industrials sleeve of our universe, in the railroads industry, supplying locomotives and rail-control systems rather than any part of the compute chain. It holds a seat in the S&P 500 but no seat in our Rubin index, and it carries no Closelooknet score yet; the diary has not logged any quotes or mentions for it.

Does Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp pay a dividend?

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp has paid 1.18 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.41% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.31 USD on 2026-08-18. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for WAB, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Railroads, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.