L.B. Foster Company (FSTR): Price and Financial Metrics

FSTR POWR Grades

• Value is the dimension where FSTR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 98.21% of US stocks.
• FSTR's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 51 weeks.
• FSTR ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 13th percentile.

FSTR Stock Summary

• Foster L B Co's stock had its IPO on March 26, 1990, making it an older stock than 84.06% of US equities in our set.
• FSTR's price/sales ratio is 0.34; that's higher than the P/S ratio of only 5.42% of US stocks.
• As for revenue growth, note that FSTR's revenue has grown -12.74% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of only 15.71% of US companies in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Foster L B Co are BGSF, AIT, VPG, UEPS, and CATO.
• FSTR's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Foster L B Co's official web site, go to www.lbfoster.com.

FSTR Valuation Summary

• FSTR's price/sales ratio is 0.4; this is 87.88% lower than that of the median Industrials stock.
• FSTR's price/earnings ratio has moved down 5.5 over the prior 243 months.
• FSTR's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.3 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FSTR.

FSTR Growth Metrics

• Its 3 year price growth rate is now at 98.7%.
• Its 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -41.57%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 183.28%.

Over the past 33 months, FSTR's revenue has gone down $99,218,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-06-30	504.543	17.359	10.543
2021-03-31	495.787	31.238	8.19
2020-12-31	497.411	16.918	7.582
2020-09-30	542.285	29.294	31.737
2020-06-30	578.196	44.874	27.971
2020-03-31	633.363	35.953	37.012

FSTR'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.

• FSTR has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 76.92% of graded US stocks.
• FSTR's asset turnover comes in at 1.342 -- ranking 61st of 105 Wholesale stocks.
• GLP, GEL, and AE are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FSTR.

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