Foster L B Co. (FSTR) vs its competitors

Foster L B Co. against railroads

Foster L B Co. is the 9th largest of 12 graded companies. Showing 5 of them, including FSTR itself.

Company	Grade	Market value	Revenue	Profit margin	Free cash flow	Price to earnings
Union Pacific Corp.UNP	A+	$162.8B	$25.4B	28.8%	$6.5B	22.20
CSX CorporationCSX	C+	$87B	$14.5B	22.2%	$2.8B	27.30
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.CP	B+	$76.1B	$10.9B	25.0%	$1.7B	28.57
Canadian National Railway Co.CNI	B+	$74.1B	$12.5B	26.9%	$2.4B	21.92
L.B. Foster CompanyFSTR	A	$394.4M	$558.4M	2.0%	$47.1M	35.70

7 more railroads companies

Graded on the same five checks, from their own SEC filings.

A blank price-to-earnings means a loss, not a missing figure — the ratio has no meaning when there are no earnings to divide by, and printing a negative one would make the least profitable company look the cheapest.

Grades are trailing twelve months from each company’s own SEC filings, so they move only when a company files. Every column is computed by the same code that graded Foster L B Co. on the overview — nothing here comes from a data vendor’s own ratios.

Industry membership is not a judgement about how similar two businesses are. It groups companies by what they are classified as, which is a starting point for comparison rather than a claim that they compete.