Foster L B Co
Foster L B Co (FSTR) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Railroads, part of the Industrials sector. It is headquartered in Pittsburgh, United States and has 1,191 employees. The company is worth $371.66M and trades at 33.6x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 24.3x. Revenue was $540.01M in fiscal 2025, up 1.7% from the year before. Net income was $7.55M. The share price is 22.9% below its 52-week high of $45.81. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Renaissance Technologies, at $16.1M. In that quarter, 3 of them opened or added to the position. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +127.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,161.33▲ +116.1%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 17 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
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| Year-end price | $26.95 | $26.90 | $21.99 | $9.68 | $13.75 | $15.05 | $19.38 | $15.90 | $27.15 | $13.60 | $13.66 | $48.57 | $47.29 | $43.44 | $28.29 | $40.94 | $29.81 | |
| P/E |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Median P/E of 24.3 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 20.7 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 13.2x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Industrials, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPCEVirgin Galactic Holdings, Inc | $2.42 | — | 0.9x | 0.00% | -75.13% | $366.86M |
| XRXXerox Holdings Corp | $2.79 | — | 1.1x | 3.58% | -97.11% | $366.37M |
| PHOEPhoenix Asia Holdings Ltd | $17.72 | — | 62.2x | 0.00% | -25.91% | $382.64M |
| BOCBOSTON OMAHA Corp | $12.54 |
| 20.7x |
| 39.1x |
| 6.9x |
| 169.2x |
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| 40.4x |
| 21.2x |
| 4.8x |
| — |
| 53.2x |
| — |
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| 19.6x |
| 16.6x |
| 27.5x |
| 12.7x |
| 20.7x |
| 19.5x |
| P/S | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.2x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.3x | 0.5x | 0.3x | 0.2x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.5x | — | — |
| P/B | 1.3x | 1.6x | 1.6x | 1.7x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 1.2x | 1.4x | 1.8x | 1.1x | 0.5x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 1.5x | 1.1x | 0.0x | — |
| EPS | $0.69 | $3.89 | $0.13 | -$4.25 | $0.34 | $0.71 | $4.00 | -$3.01 | $0.51 | -$13.79 | -$4.33 | $2.48 | $2.85 | $1.58 | $2.22 | $1.98 | $1.53 |
| Dividend yield | 0.31% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.88% | 1.17% | 0.27% | 0.25% | 0.23% | 0.35% | — | — |
| Payout | 4.87% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5.24% | 4.21% | 6.33% | 4.50% | — | — |
| Profit margin | 1.40% | 1.40% | 8.09% | 0.27% | -9.16% | 0.71% | 1.52% | 6.91% | -5.36% | 1.00% | -29.30% | -7.12% | 4.23% | 4.90% | 2.75% | 3.98% | — | — |
| ROE | 4.30% | 4.30% | 24.08% | 1.03% | -33.22% | 1.98% | 4.29% | 25.06% | -25.52% | 3.47% | -106.31% | -15.71% | 7.64% | 9.26% | 5.63% | 8.49% | 8.01% | 6.76% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
5 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-6.7% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 0.8x |
| 0.00% |
| -2.93% |
| $357.63M |
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