GATX Corporation Announces Quarterly Dividend Increase - Seite 3

 

• financial and operational risks associated with long-term purchase commitments for transportation assets
• reduced opportunities to generate asset remarketing income
• inability to successfully consummate and manage ongoing acquisition and divestiture activities
• reliance on Rolls-Royce in connection with our aircraft spare engine leasing businesses, and the risks that certain factors that adversely affect Rolls-Royce could have an adverse effect on our businesses
• fluctuations in foreign exchange rates
• inflation or deflation
• failure to successfully negotiate collective bargaining agreements with the unions representing a substantial portion of our employees
• asset impairment charges we may be required to recognize
• deterioration of conditions in the capital markets, reductions in our credit ratings, or increases in our financing costs
• competitive factors in our primary markets, including competitors with significantly lower costs of capital
• risks related to our international operations and expansion into new geographic markets, including laws, regulations, tariffs, taxes, treaties or trade barriers affecting our activities in the countries where we do business
• changes in, or failure to comply with, laws, rules, and regulations
• U.S. and global political conditions
• inability to obtain cost-effective insurance
• environmental liabilities and remediation costs
• potential obsolescence of our assets
• inadequate allowances to cover credit losses in our portfolio
• operational, functional and regulatory risks associated with climate change, severe weather events and natural disasters, and other environmental, social and governance matters
• inability to maintain and secure our information technology infrastructure from cybersecurity threats and related disruption of our business
• changes in assumptions, increases in funding requirements or investment losses in our pension and post-retirement plans
• inability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures