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Industrials

L.B. Foster Company(FSTR)

Live Price

Offline

$44.77

+0.29% today

1Y Change

+97.03%

Window

Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 18, 2026

Market Cap
$430.00M
Revenue Growth
+1.7%
EPS Growth
-81.8%
Dividend Yield
0.0%

Coverage: 244 bars ยท Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 18, 2026

Research Briefing

A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.

Decision context

Research Snapshot

L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $430.00M and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $44.77 and up 97.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 โ†’ Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +1.7%, EPS growth of -81.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +1.7%, EPS -81.8%, free cash flow +96.2% with operating margin 4.6% and ROIC 5.1%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 37.6 and price/sales 0.8. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines FSTR price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.

Benchmark Edge

FSTR vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs

Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.

Shared 1Y chart + MAX history table

Relative Read

Mixed setup vs SPY

FSTR is 76.17 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.

FSTR had 6.24 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.

FSTR beat SPY in 2 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 0.

FSTR

+97.03%

Normalized return

SPY

+20.86%

S&P 500

Excess Return

+76.17 pts

Relative to SPY

FSTR Max Drawdown

-15.38%

Trailing 1Y

SPY Max Drawdown

-9.13%

Trailing 1Y

FSTRSPY

Calendar-Year Returns

Uses the longest available daily history for FSTR and SPY.

YearFSTRSPYExcessLeader
2026+59.71%+6.71%+53.00 ptsFSTR
2025+24.83%+11.19%+13.63 ptsFSTR

Financial profile

L.B. Foster Company (FSTR)

Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.

FY Revenue

$513.6M

+3.2% YoY

FY Net Income

$3.6M

+108.0% YoY

Free Cash Flow

-$5.7M

+68.8% YoY

Revenue Growth

+1.7%

EPS Growth

-81.8%

Gross Margin

21.2%

Net Margin

2.0%

Income statement

USD

Annual
Metric20252024202320222021
Revenue540M531M544M497M514M
Gross Profit114M118M112M90M86M
Operating Income22M21M9M-7M4M
EBITDA38M34M22M9M21M
Net Income8M43M1M-46M4M
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Balance sheet

USD

Point-in-time
Metric20252024202320222021
Cash & Equivalents4M2M3M3M10M
Total Assets330M335M312M365M343M
Total Liabilities155M156M170M228M159M
Shareholder Equity175M178M142M137M183M
Total Debt67M62M67M106M44M
Net Debt63M59M65M103M33M

Cash flow positioning

Latest Full Year

Operating Cash Flow

1M

+89.9% YoY

Capital Expenditures

5M

+39.5% YoY

Free Cash Flow

6M

+68.8% YoY

Key ratios

  • Gross Margin

    21.2%

  • Operating Margin

    4.6%

  • Net Margin

    2.0%

  • ROE

    6.4%

  • Debt / Equity

    0.48x

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