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Foster L B Co. FSTR

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$540.0M
▲ 1.7% YoY
$7.5M
▼ 82.4% YoY
$25.2M
▲ 96.2% YoY
In brief

What this company does

L.B. Foster Company is a global technology solutions provider of engineered, manufactured products and services that builds and supports infrastructure. The Company maintains locations in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Company operates under two reporting segments, Rail, Technologies, and Services, and Infrastructure Solutions, each of which has certain business units. Its Rail segment is comprised of several manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses that provide a variety of products, solutions, and services for freight and passenger railroads and other industrial companies throughout the world. As of December 31, 2025, the Company had 1,191 employees, of which 974 were located within the US, 44 within Canada, 166 in Europe, and 7 within other locations. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, approximately 11% and 14%, respectively, of its total sales were outside the US. Founded in 1902, L.B. Foster Company is a Pennsylvania corporation with its principal office in Pittsburgh, PA.

Written from the business description in L.B. Foster Company's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 5 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 540.0M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 540.0 · Net income 7.5
250.0M500.0M-50.0M-100.0M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+2.8%
+1.7%
−1.4%
−0.1%
−6.4%
−0.6%
+242.8%
+58.2%
+14.4%
+58.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +1.7% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
1 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 4.1% · Net 1.4%
5%-10%-20%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 4.3%
10%20%-20%-40%-60%200920112013201520172019202120232025
Gross margin21.1%
Operating margin4.1%
Net margin1.4%
Return on assets2.2%
EBITDAUSD 34.3M

Each USD of equity produced 4 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 16.5M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 25.2
20M40M-8M-16M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 16.5
8M16MDividendsNet buybacks200920112013201520172019202120232025
Dividends paid—
Net buybacksUSD 16.5M
Share of profit218.8%
Consecutive raises—

USD 16.5M in buybacks — 219% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 330.4M
EquityUSD 175.3M
CashUSD 4.3M
Gross debtUSD 42.6M
Net debtUSD 38.3M
Current ratio1.87×

Net debt stands at 22% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.50.50.50.50.50.50.60.60.50.50.60.60.60.60.6··
Operating income $B0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.1−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.1−0.00.00.10.00.00.00.0
Income tax $B0.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.0−0.00.0−0.1−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.10.0
EPS, diluted $0.693.890.13−4.250.340.714.00−3.010.51−13.79−4.332.482.851.582.221.981.53
Dividend / sh $········0.000.120.160.130.120.100.100.000.00
Payout %········0−1−4546400
ROE %4.326.81.0−28.52.04.429.2−22.53.6−67.0−14.47.99.75.88.78.46.8
Shares out B0.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.01

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 80 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 15 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityWholesale-Metals Service Centers & of fices
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inPennsylvania
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
SEC categorysmaller reporting company
Data on record since2009

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