secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FOSTER L B CO (FSTR)
CIK:        0000352825
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000352825-25-000132
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.65
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

L.B. Foster Q3 sales up 0.6%, backlog up 18.4%; sees strong Q4 with 115% Adj. EBITDA growth
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- Sales $138.3M (+0.6%); operating income $8.3M (+13.3%); net income $4.4M (down 87.9% due to prior-year $30M tax benefit).
- Adjusted EBITDA $11.4M (down 7.9%); free cash flow $26.4M (up 21.7%).
- Backlog $247.4M (+18.4%), Rail backlog up 58.2%; new orders up 19.6%.
- Revised FY2025 guidance: sales $535-545M, Adj. EBITDA $40-42M; Q4 Adj. EBITDA expected up ~115% on 25% sales growth.
- Debt reduced $22.9M in quarter; gross leverage 1.6x (down from 2.2x); repurchased 184k shares for $4.7M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352825/000035282525000132/0000352825-25-000132-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352825/000035282525000132/fstr-20251103.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000352825-25-000132

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