News articles about L.B. Foster (NASDAQ:FSTR) have trended somewhat positive recently, according to Accern Sentiment. The research firm identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. L.B. Foster earned a media sentiment score of 0.07 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned news articles about the basic materials company an impact score of 41.2941599617828 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock’s share price in the near future.
Separately, BidaskClub upgraded L.B. Foster from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, June 8th.
Get L.B. Foster alerts:Shares of L.B. Foster traded down $0.05, hitting $22.35, on Friday, MarketBeat reports. 21,614 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 42,786. L.B. Foster has a one year low of $17.00 and a one year high of $30.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70, a current ratio of 2.02 and a quick ratio of 1.01. The firm has a market cap of $231.66 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 25.40 and a beta of 2.28.
L.B. Foster (NASDAQ:FSTR) last announced its earnings results on Tuesday, May 1st. The basic materials company reported ($0.20) EPS for the quarter. L.B. Foster had a net margin of 0.84% and a return on equity of 6.49%. The business had revenue of $122.45 million for the quarter.
L.B. Foster Company Profile
L.B. Foster Company manufactures and distributes products and services for the transportation and energy infrastructure worldwide. Its Rail Products and Services segment offers new rail for passenger and shortline freight railroads, industrial companies, and rail contractors; used rail; rail accessories, such as track spikes, bolts, angle bars, and other products; power rail, direct fixation fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories; and trackwork products, as well as engineers and fabricates insulated rail joints and related accessories.
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