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L.B. Foster Company

FSTR Industrials Railroads

L.B. Foster Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $540.0 million, up 1.74% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue fell 3.49%, EPS grew 7.14%, free cash flow grew 83.8% and total debt fell 41.2%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for five consecutive years.

34.43 0.13 +0.38%
Market cap
$360.8M
P/E
31.0×
Fwd P/E
23.9×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
3.95
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
n/a
Overview Business Profile Financial Analysis Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios 10-Q 10-K

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 8.21
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 5 2 — — 4 — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 7.38%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 360.83
Revenue 558.35
Net Income 11.30
Free Cash Flow 47.08
Net Debt 42.21
Current Ratio 2.00 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.27 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 31.02
Fwd P/E 23.90
P/S ratio 0.64
P/B ratio 1.99
Past 5Y EPS Growth (0.57%) (below 0%: weak)
This Y EPS Growth 134.78% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y EPS Growth 25.00% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y revenue growth 4.15%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 54.41% (at or above 15%: strong)

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years
EV/Sales is 0.7×, against a ten-year median of 0.5×; over the ten years it ranged from 0.3× in 2020 to 0.9× in 2026.
P/E against its own 10 years 56.39%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 95.80%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 93.92%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 94.32%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 21.09%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2019 Powerpack
2017 Powerpack
2016 0.12
0.04
0.04
0.04
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 3 2 4 6
Receivables 53 65 81 77
Inventory 73 71 60 70
Other 38 24 12 12
167 162 157 164
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 40 50 53 50
ST’ Debt 0 0 0 0
Other — — — —
95 88 84 82

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (1.44%) 1.66% 2.77%
Cash Flow (4.45%) 16.06% 0.00%
Earnings 0.00% (0.10%) 0.00%
Book Value (4.63%) (0.09%) 8.55%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 121 139 — — —
’25 98 144 138 160 540
’24 124 141 137 128 531
’23 115 148 145 135 544
’22 99 132 130 137 497
’21 116 155 130 113 514
’20 122 142 118 116 497
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (10) 18 — — —
’25 (26) 10 29 22 36
’24 (21) (5) 25 24 23
’23 7 (10) 19 22 37
’22 (8) (6) (5) 8 (11)
’21 7 (1) (14) 6 (1)
’20 (7) 13 7 4 17
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (13) 14 — — —
’25 (29) 8 26 20 25
’24 (21) (7) 22 22 17
’23 6 (11) 17 20 33
’22 (9) (7) (7) 5 (18)
’21 6 (2) (15) 5 (6)
’20 (10) 10 5 2 8
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.14 0.29 — — —
’25 (0.20) 0.27 0.40 0.22 0.69
’24 0.40 0.26 3.27 (0.02) 3.89
’23 (0.20) 0.32 0.05 (0.04) 0.13
’22 (0.15) 0.18 (0.20) (4.09) (4.25)
’21 (0.12) 0.27 0.22 (0.03) 0.34
’20 (0.18) 0.05 0.64 0.20 0.71
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 8.80 11.80 13.91 15.25 7.96 12.62 9.00 9.62 14.23 17.16

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 20.77 27.45 30.30 27.80 20.51 19.47 16.15 22.56 30.77 29.42
People
People Employees 1,241 1,475 1,480 1,330 1,130 991 1,131 1,065 1,057 1,191
Revenue/emp, $m 0.39 0.36 0.39 0.46 0.44 0.52 0.44 0.51 0.50 0.45
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 484 536 581 616 497 514 497 544 531 540
Gross margin, % 18.69 19.62 19.53 19.62 19.10 16.80 18.01 20.61 22.24 21.06
EBT (147) 10 (25) 24 14 5 (9) 1 14 17
EBT margin, % (30.44) 1.87 (4.23) 3.92 2.81 0.89 (1.81) 0.17 2.72 3.23
Net income (142) 5 (31) 48 26 3 (46) 1 43 7
Depreciation 23 20 15 14 14 14 15 15 14 12
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 47.07 51.90 56.08 59.22 47.19 48.35 46.41 50.35 49.51 52.05
Earnings (13.79) 0.40 (3.01) 4.09 0.72 0.34 (4.25) 0.14 4.01 0.73
Cash flow 1.79 3.81 2.51 2.81 1.61 (0.10) (0.99) 3.42 2.11 3.43
Capex (0.65) (0.45) (0.13) (0.49) (0.87) (0.43) (0.69) (0.37) (0.55) (1.00)
Free cash flow 1.14 3.36 2.38 2.32 0.74 (0.53) (1.67) 3.05 1.56 2.43
Book value 12.97 14.95 11.79 16.32 16.78 17.28 12.84 13.23 16.70 16.97
Shares, m 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 10
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 51.22 0.00 4.74 20.90 40.44 0.00 171.46 6.73 36.42
P/S 0.30 0.51 0.28 0.33 0.32 0.28 0.21 0.44 0.54 0.52
P/B 1.10 1.78 1.35 1.19 0.90 0.80 0.76 1.69 1.61 1.59
EV/Sales 0.57 0.68 0.39 0.40 0.39 0.33 0.39 0.54 0.63 0.59
EV/FCF 23.58 10.59 9.32 10.15 25.29 (29.53) (10.81) 8.90 19.89 12.60
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 18 39 26 29 17 (1) (11) 37 23 36
Capex (7) (5) (1) (5) (9) (5) (7) (4) (6) (10)
Free cash flow 12 35 25 24 8 (6) (18) 33 17 25
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 117 133 102 100 100 93 103 73 73 73
Total debt 160 130 75 58 45 31 92 55 47 43
Net debt 129 92 65 44 37 21 89 53 44 38
Shareholders’ equity 133 154 122 170 177 184 138 143 179 176
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (29.52) 1.35 (7.94) 10.80 1.96 1.02 (12.87) 0.43 13.28 2.27
ROIC (1.24) 4.49 (6.57) 9.34 4.56 1.37 (1.99) 2.91 5.74 6.38
ROE (68.09) 3.73 (22.54) 29.16 4.37 2.01 (28.37) 1.04 26.69 4.25
Negative figures in brackets.

All 10 years →

Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

L.B. Foster Company vs peers in Railroads (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
CP Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited $76.4B 27.9× 25.5× +12.46% (above 0%: growing) −13.40% (below 0%: shrinking) +54.79% (above 0%: growing) 67.51% 35.35% Compare
NSC Norfolk Southern Corporation $73.0B 27.9× 26.4× +11.41% (above 0%: growing) −4.40% (below 0%: shrinking) −3.08% (below 0%: shrinking) 66.32% 32.44% Compare
WAB Wabtec $48.6B 38.5× 27.7× +17.48% (above 0%: growing) +18.88% (above 0%: growing) +122.94% (above 0%: growing) 36.52% 18.87% Compare
TRN Trinity Industries, Inc. $2.0B 5.9× 14.2× −4.17% (below 0%: shrinking) +623.53% (above 0%: growing) +75.30% (above 0%: growing) 22.66% 41.19% Compare
GBX Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (The) $1.2B 11.3× 14.8× −31.59% (below 0%: shrinking) −68.23% (below 0%: shrinking) −412.32% (below 0%: shrinking) 14.07% 5.53% Compare
FSTR L.B. Foster Company $360.8M 31.0× 23.9× −3.49% (below 0%: shrinking) +7.14% (above 0%: growing) +83.84% (above 0%: growing) 22.28% 4.44%
RAIL Freightcar America, Inc. $201.0M — (loss-making) 4.4× −4.62% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m +33.43% (above 0%: growing) 5.45% (3.80%) Compare
SWVL Swvl Holdings Corp. $77.1M — (loss-making) — — n/m +99.68% (above 0%: growing) 13.65% (77.75%) Compare
RVSN Rail Vision Ltd. $6.4M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −65.95% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m −95.95% (below 0%: shrinking) 57.04% 0.00% Compare
Median of peers $1.6B 27.9× 20.2× −4.17% −4.40% +44.11% 29.59% 12.20%

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L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) key facts

  • Strength: L.B. Foster Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $540.0 million, up 1.74% from fiscal 2024.
  • L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) is a Railroads company in the Industrials sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, FSTR traded at $34.43, a market capitalization of $360.8 million.
  • Return on equity was 4.25% and debt-to-equity 0.27.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 3.95 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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