Federal Signal Corporation (FSS): Price and Financial Metrics

FSS POWR Grades

• FSS scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 82.98% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for FSS is in Stability, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• FSS's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 5.92% of US stocks).

FSS Stock Summary

• Federal Signal Corp's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 92.84% of US equities in our set.
• Price to trailing twelve month operating cash flow for FSS is currently 20.8, higher than 70.19% of US stocks with positive operating cash flow.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 34.23%, Federal Signal Corp's debt growth rate surpasses 79.47% of about US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Federal Signal Corp are OFED, CRWS, ADUS, HONE, and WOR.
• Visit FSS's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.federalsignal.com.

FSS Valuation Summary

• FSS's price/earnings ratio is 24.3; this is 8.82% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• FSS's price/sales ratio has moved up 1.3 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, FSS's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 7.3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FSS.

FSS Growth Metrics

Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 137.52%.
• The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -16.96%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 32.32%.

Over the past 70 months, FSS's revenue has gone up $494,000,000.

The table below shows FSS's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	1,213.2	101.8	100.6
2021-09-30	1,206.6	111.7	107.2
2021-06-30	1,188.1	110.5	103.3
2021-03-31	1,123.5	157	95
2020-12-31	1,130.8	136.2	96.2
2020-09-30	1,150.4	124.1	99.9

FSS's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• FSS has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 87.41% of graded US stocks.
• FSS's asset turnover comes in at 0.953 -- ranking 33rd of 68 Automobiles and Trucks stocks.
• WNC, ALSN, and MLR are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FSS.

The table below shows FSS's key quality metrics over time.