LB Foster Company Overview
Industry: Railroads
Sector: Industrials
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 precast products, such as sound walls, bridge beams, box culverts, septic tanks, and other custom pre-stressed products, as well as a range of specialty precast concrete 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. 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; use Read MoreMavefund brings filings, fundamentals, valuation, price history and news for LB Foster Company into one research view. The sections below show what strengthens or weakens the research case.
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Reported Results
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Quarterly result summary
Net sales was $121.1M (+24% YoY). Operating income was $2M (-206% YoY). Net income was $1.5M.
Net sales
$121.1M
+24% YoY
Operating income
$2M
-206% YoY
Net income
$1.5M
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Adjusted EBITDA
$5.2M
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What changed
- Net sales +24% YoY to $121.1M.
- Operating income -206% YoY to $2M.
- Net sales for the 2026 first quarter increased $23.4 million, or 23.9%, over the prior year quarter. The increase was driven by sales growth in Rail, Technologies, and Services ("Rail") of $20.8 million, or 38.4%, with Infrastructure Solutions ("Infrastructure") sales also improving $2.6 million, or 5.9%.
Guidance / outlook
The Company expects the variability of these items to have a potentially unpredictable, and a potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.
Earnings release
Open filing
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Other recent earnings materials
SEC filing
10-Q
May 04, 2026
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May 04, 2026
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Mar 05, 2026
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Mar 03, 2026
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Mar 03, 2026
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Nov 03, 2025
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Nov 03, 2025
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Nov 03, 2025
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10-Q
Aug 11, 2025
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8-K
Aug 11, 2025
Earnings release
Earnings release
Aug 11, 2025
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Recent News
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Earnings Per Share
Score 2.00/5
LB Foster Company earns a low score, as its Earnings Per Share (EPS) has not shown continuous growth over the last six years. Notable counterparts in the sector with high scores includes
TREX CO INC
Honeywell International Inc
Snap-On Inc
In
Railroads industry
, Union Pacific Corporation
, Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp
, Norfolk Southern Corporation
are companies with high ratings.
Return on Equity
Score 0.72/5
LB Foster Company exhibits a lower score in the Return on Equity (ROE) section, falling below the sector median value and indicating a comparatively weaker performance in this metric. The top companies in the same sector include
TREX CO INC
Honeywell International Inc
Snap-On Inc
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Net Margin
Score 1.92/5
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TREX CO INC
Honeywell International Inc
Snap-On Inc
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Score 3.83/5
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TREX CO INC
Honeywell International Inc
Snap-On Inc
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