All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
All nine metrics read as filed from the record.
What did they actually do?
Has it survived what it has been through?
1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2024-10-08.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: a warning not to rely on past financial statements (8-K item 4.02, the latest 2024-10-08) (its current reports).
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What has it actually done, year after year?
+0.1% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 7 of 9.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $536 million in fiscal 2017 to $540 million in fiscal 2025, up 0.1% a year; it rose in 5 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 19% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 7 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How has it treated the people who own it?
Share count grew 0.5% a year. 29% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 1 sales, 0 purchases.
From the record
Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, L.B. Foster Company's diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 29% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 1 sale and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-01 (their Form 4 filings).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they doing right now?
Is it financially healthy right now?
ROE 4%: 4¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 47%: owes 47¢ per asset dollar.
From the record
Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, L.B. Foster Company earned about 4 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 34 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 47 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.5% over the year (the filed statements).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
How strong is its position in its industry?
bottom 47% of 51 in its family; net margin 1.4%.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's standing among 51 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $540 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 38% by size; a net margin of 1.4% ranks in the bottom 46%; revenue growth of 2.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 44% (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are the people in charge doing?
bottom 38% of 35 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2021.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kasel, John F (President & Chief Exec Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-07-23, 5.3 years (top 46% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (bottom 27%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 31%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What are they set up to do next?
How much room does it have to grow?
bottom 40% of 49 in its family for room to expand.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $4 million against debt of $43 million leaves -11.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.7% of revenue (top 38%); a gross margin of 21.1% (bottom 32%); research spending of 0.7% of revenue (bottom 25%) (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
What could actually drive growth from here?
top 29% of 50 in its family for growth drivers.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 2.8% a year over the last three filed years against 0.1% over all 9, speeding up (top 9% of its family); the newest year grew 1.7% (bottom 37%); research spending grew 18% a year (top 7%); capital spending grew 10.9% a year (top 36%) (its annual reports). L.B. Foster Company reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Rail Technologies and Services at $306 million (57%), Infrastructure Solutions at $234 million (43%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?
top 28% of 44 in its family for expectations against reality.
From the record
L.B. Foster Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $540 million in fiscal 2025 came in 1.5% below the $548 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 33% of its family); net income of $8 million against a prior three-year average of $385 thousand (top 2%); a net margin of 1.4% against -0.3% before (top 15%) (its annual reports).
What it rests on
A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.
The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made