secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FOSTER L B CO (FSTR)
CIK:        0000352825
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-08-10T11:33:04+00:00
Accession:  0000352825-26-000046
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.60
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

L.B. Foster Q2 net income up 7.9% to $3.1M; record operating cash flow, reaffirms FY26 guidance
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- Q2 net sales $138.6M (-3.5% YoY); net income $3.1M (+7.9%); Adj EBITDA $11.7M (-4.7%).
- Operating cash flow $17.9M, highest Q2 since 2017; total debt cut to $48.0M, gross leverage 1.0x.
- Backlog up 17.4% sequentially to $246.1M; reaffirms FY26 sales $540-580M, Adj EBITDA $41-46M.
- Tew Exit costs $2.6M in Q2; Rail sales -5.2%, Infrastructure -1.5%.
- H1 sales +7.6% to $259.7M; net income $4.6M vs $0.8M; Adj EBITDA +19.6% to $16.8M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352825/000035282526000046/0000352825-26-000046-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352825/000035282526000046/fstr-20260810.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000352825-26-000046

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