NASDAQ:FSTR

L.B. Foster - FSTR Stock Forecast, Price & News

$9.32

-0.08 (-0.85%)

(As of 12/2/2022 12:00 AM ET)

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Today's Range: $9.31
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$9.57
50-Day Range: $9.32
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$13.00
52-Week Range: $9.01
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$16.15

Volume: 33,620 shs
Average Volume: 19,989 shs
Market Capitalization: $101.86 million

P/E Ratio: N/A
Dividend Yield: N/A
Price Target: $13.00

L.B. Foster MarketRank™ Forecast

Analyst Rating: Hold
2.00 Rating Score
Upside/Downside: 39.5% Upside
$13.00 Price Target
Short Interest: Healthy
0.33% of Float Sold Short
Dividend Strength: N/A
Sustainability: -2.57
Upright™ Environmental Score
News Sentiment: 1.07
Based on 4 Articles This Week
Insider Trading: Acquiring Shares
$48,590 Bought Last Quarter
Proj. Earnings Growth: 338.46%
From $0.13 to $0.57 Per Share

Overall MarketRank^™

MarketRank is calculated as an average of available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation.

2.75 out of 5 stars

Basic Materials Sector

26th out of 166 stocks

Metals Service Centers & Offices Industry

1st out of 4 stocks

3.0

Analyst's Opinion

Consensus Rating
L.B. Foster has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.00, and is based on no buy ratings, 1 hold rating, and no sell ratings.
Price Target Upside/Downside
According to analysts' consensus price target of $13.00, L.B. Foster has a forecasted upside of 39.5% from its current price of $9.32.
Amount of Analyst Coverage
L.B. Foster has received no research coverage in the past 90 days.

3.0

Short Interest

Percentage of Shares Shorted
0.33% of the float of L.B. Foster has been sold short.
Short Interest Ratio / Days to Cover
L.B. Foster has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 1.7, which is generally considered an acceptable ratio of short interest to trading volume.
Change versus previous month
Short interest in L.B. Foster has recently increased by 59.80%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.

0.0

Dividend Strength

Dividend Yield
L.B. Foster does not currently pay a dividend.
Dividend Growth
L.B. Foster does not have a long track record of dividend growth.

3.2

Sustainability and ESG

Overall ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Score
L.B. Foster has received a 33.36% net impact score from Upright. The largest positive contribution comes from its "Societal infrastructure" impact, which is mostly driven by its "Railway installation services", "Railway construction engineering services", and "Construction of railways" products. See details.
Environmental Sustainability
The Environmental Impact score for L.B. Foster is -2.57.

3.9

News and Social Media Coverage

News Sentiment
L.B. Foster has a news sentiment score of 1.07. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.34 average news sentiment score of Basic Materials companies.
News Coverage This Week
MarketBeat has tracked 4 news articles for L.B. Foster this week, compared to 1 article on an average week.
Search Interest
1 people have searched for FSTR on MarketBeat in the last 30 days.
MarketBeat Follows
1 people have added L.B. Foster to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days.

3.3

Company Ownership

Insider Buying vs. Insider Selling
In the past three months, L.B. Foster insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought $48,590.00 in company stock and sold $0.00 in company stock.
Percentage Held by Insiders
Only 8.60% of the stock of L.B. Foster is held by insiders.
Percentage Held by Institutions
69.29% of the stock of L.B. Foster is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.

2.5

Earnings and Valuation

Earnings Growth
Earnings for L.B. Foster are expected to grow by 338.46% in the coming year, from $0.13 to $0.57 per share.
Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the Market
The P/E ratio of L.B. Foster is -46.60, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.
Price to Earnings Ratio vs. Sector
The P/E ratio of L.B. Foster is -46.60, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.
Price to Book Value per Share Ratio
L.B. Foster has a P/B Ratio of 0.58. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.

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About L.B. Foster (NASDAQ:FSTR) Stock

L.B. Foster Company provides engineered and manufactured products and services for the building and infrastructure projects worldwide. The company's Rail, Technologies, and Services segment offers new rail to passenger and short line freight railroads, industrial companies, and rail contractors; used rails; rail accessories, including track spikes and anchors, bolts, angle bars, tie plates, and other products; power rail, direct fixation fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories; and trackwork products, as well as engineers and manufactures insulated rail joints and related accessories. This segment also provides friction management products and application systems, railroad condition monitoring systems and equipment, wheel impact load detection systems, wayside data collection and management systems, track fasteners, and engineered concrete railroad ties; and aftermarket services. Its Precast Concrete Products segment offers a range of specialty precast concrete products, such as sound walls, burial vaults, bridge beams, box culverts, septic tanks, and other custom pre-stressed products for use in transportation and general infrastructure markets. This segment also manufactures precast concrete buildings for use as restrooms, concession stands, and protective storage buildings in national, state, and municipal parks. The company's Steel Products and Measurement segment provides bridge decking, bridge railing, structural steel fabrications, expansion joints, bridge forms, and other products for highway construction and repair. This segment also produces threaded pipe products for industrial water well, irrigation, and oil and gas markets, as well as offers pipe coatings for oil and gas pipelines and utilities, and precision measurement systems for the oil and gas market. The company markets its products directly, as well as through a network of agents. L.B. Foster Company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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FSTR Stock News Headlines

December 1, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Company to Present Virtually at Singular Research Best of the Uncovered Conference on December 8, 2022

November 30, 2022 | seekingalpha.com

L.B. Foster: Hidden Value In A Post Acquisition Development

November 13, 2022 | seekingalpha.com

L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) Q3 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

November 10, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Third Quarter 2022 Earnings: Revenues Beat Expectations, EPS Lags

November 8, 2022 | msn.com

Former Spartan Foster Loyer drops 30 points in Davidson's season opener

November 8, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster (FSTR) Surpasses Q3 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

November 7, 2022 | msn.com

L.B. Foster's Earnings Outlook

November 7, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster and ACIPCO Providing Coated Pipe to Summit Carbon Solutions’ 2,000 Mile Carbon Capture and Sequestration Pipeline

November 1, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Company to Report Third Quarter 2022 Operating Results on November 8, 2022

October 19, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

Strength Seen in L.B. Foster (FSTR): Can Its 10.3% Jump Turn into More Strength?

September 10, 2022 | seekingalpha.com

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September 8, 2022 | reuters.com

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September 7, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Company to Present Virtually at Singular Research Midwestern Values Investor Conference on September 14, 2022

September 1, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

Investors Could Be Concerned With L.B. Foster's (NASDAQ:FSTR) Returns On Capital

August 26, 2022 | msn.com

CXT/L.B. Foster acquire VanHooseCo near Knoxville

August 17, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Company to Present at Three Part Advisors’ 12th Annual Midwest IDEAS Investor Conference on August 24, 2022 in Chicago, IL

August 16, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster acquires Tennessee-based precast concrete business

August 14, 2022 | seekingalpha.com

L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) CEO John Kasel on Q2 2022 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

August 13, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Acquires Operating Assets Of VanHooseCo Precast For $50.5M

August 12, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

Earnings Beat: L.B. Foster Company Just Beat Analyst Forecasts, And Analysts Have Been Updating Their Models

August 9, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster (FSTR) Beats Q2 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

August 8, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster sells rail track components business

August 5, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Announces Track Components Business Divestiture

August 2, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster Company to Report Second Quarter 2022 Operating Results on August 9, 2022

August 1, 2022 | finance.yahoo.com

L.B. Foster announces acquisitions of two U.K.-based companies

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FSTR Company Calendar

Last Earnings: 11/02/2021
Today: 12/02/2022
Fiscal Year End: 12/31/2022
Next Earnings (Estimated): 3/07/2023

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Industry, Sector and Symbol

Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
Industry: Metals service centers & offices
Sub-Industry: Industrial Machinery
Sector: Basic Materials
Current Symbol: NASDAQ:FSTR
CUSIP: 35006010
CIK: 352825
Web: www.lbfoster.com
Phone: (412) 928-3400
Fax: 412-928-7891
Employees: 991
Year Founded: 1902

Price Target and Rating

Average Stock Price Forecast: $13.00
High Stock Price Forecast: $13.00
Low Stock Price Forecast: $13.00
Forecasted Upside/Downside: +39.5%
Consensus Rating: Hold
Rating Score (0-4): 2.00
Research Coverage: 1 Analysts

Profitability

EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year): ($0.20)
Trailing P/E Ratio: N/A
Forward P/E Ratio: 71.69
P/E Growth: N/A
Net Income: $3.63 million
Net Margins: -0.42%
Pretax Margin: -0.49%
Return on Equity: 0.64%
Return on Assets: 0.32%

Debt

Debt-to-Equity Ratio: 0.56
Current Ratio: 2.06
Quick Ratio: 1.25

Sales & Book Value

Annual Sales: $513.62 million
Price / Sales: 0.20
Cash Flow: $1.41 per share
Price / Cash Flow: 6.63
Book Value: $16.08 per share
Price / Book: 0.58

Miscellaneous

Outstanding Shares: 10,929,000
Free Float: 9,989,000
Market Cap: $101.86 million
Optionable: Optionable
Beta: 1.01

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Key Executives

Mr. John F. Kasel (Age 57)
Pres, CEO & Director
Comp: $892.1k

Mr. William M. Thalman (Age 55)
Sr. VP & CFO
Comp: $516.22k

Mr. Brian H. Kelly (Age 62)
Sr. VP of HR & Admin.
Comp: $481.29k

Mr. Patrick J. Guinee Esq. (Age 52)
Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Corp. Sec.
Comp: $497.93k

Mr. Gregory W. Lippard (Age 53)
Sr. VP of Rail
Comp: $490.18k

Mr. Sean M. Reilly CPA (Age 49)
Corp. Controller & Principal Accounting Officer

Mr. Peter David-Vaughan Jones (Age 55)
VP of Technology Services & Solutions

Stephanie Listwak
Investor Relations Mang.

Jake Fuellhart
Marketing & Communications Mang.

Mr. William F. Treacy (Age 62)
Sr. VP & Chief Growth Officer

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Insiders & Institutions

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FSTR Stock - Frequently Asked Questions

Should I buy or sell L.B. Foster stock right now?: 1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for L.B. Foster in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 hold rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "hold" FSTR shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FSTR, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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What is L.B. Foster's stock price forecast for 2023?: 1 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for L.B. Foster's stock. Their FSTR share price forecasts range from $13.00 to $13.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $13.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 39.5% from the stock's current price.
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How have FSTR shares performed in 2022?: L.B. Foster's stock was trading at $13.75 at the start of the year. Since then, FSTR shares have decreased by 32.2% and is now trading at $9.32.
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Are investors shorting L.B. Foster?: L.B. Foster saw a increase in short interest in November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 32,600 shares, an increase of 59.8% from the October 31st total of 20,400 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 19,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.7 days. Currently, 0.3% of the company's stock are short sold.
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When is L.B. Foster's next earnings date?: The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 7th 2023.
View our FSTR earnings forecast.
How were L.B. Foster's earnings last quarter?: L.B. Foster (NASDAQ:FSTR) posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 2nd. The basic materials company reported $0.22 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.24 by $0.02. The basic materials company earned $130.05 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $129.42 million. L.B. Foster had a negative net margin of 0.42% and a positive trailing twelve-month return on equity of 0.64%. During the same period last year, the firm posted $0.09 EPS.

What is Robert P. Bauer's approval rating as L.B. Foster's CEO?: 7 employees have rated L.B. Foster Chief Executive Officer Robert P. Bauer on Glassdoor.com. Robert P. Bauer has an approval rating of 61% among the company's employees. This puts Robert P. Bauer in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.
What other stocks do shareholders of L.B. Foster own?: Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other L.B. Foster investors own include Salesforce (CRM), SolarEdge Technologies (SEDG), BlackBerry (BB), AT&T (T), 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (FLWS), Pfizer (PFE), Snap (SNAP), Wix.com (WIX), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and American Airlines Group (AAL).
What is L.B. Foster's stock symbol?: L.B. Foster trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FSTR."
Who are L.B. Foster's major shareholders?: L.B. Foster's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Rutabaga Capital Management LLC MA (3.99%) and Systematic Financial Management LP (0.71%). Insiders that own company stock include John F Kasel, Robert P Bauer and William M Thalman.
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How do I buy shares of L.B. Foster?: Shares of FSTR stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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What is L.B. Foster's stock price today?: One share of FSTR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $9.32.
How much money does L.B. Foster make?: L.B. Foster (NASDAQ:FSTR) has a market capitalization of $101.86 million and generates $513.62 million in revenue each year. The basic materials company earns $3.63 million in net income (profit) each year or ($0.20) on an earnings per share basis.
How many employees does L.B. Foster have?: The company employs 991 workers across the globe.
How can I contact L.B. Foster?: L.B. Foster's mailing address is 415 HOLIDAY DR SUITE 100, PITTSBURGH PA, 15220. The official website for the company is www.lbfoster.com. The basic materials company can be reached via phone at (412) 928-3400, via email at investors@lbfoster.com, or via fax at 412-928-7891.

This page (NASDAQ:FSTR) was last updated on 12/3/2022 by MarketBeat.com Staff

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