Federal Signal Corporation is a pollution & treatment controls business based in the US. Federal Signal Corporation shares (FSS) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Federal Signal Corporation employs 4,500 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $1.8 billion.
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| Latest market close | $97.50 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $56.13 - $99.78 |
| 50-day moving average | $86.67 |
| 200-day moving average | $77.55 |
| Wall St. target price | $84.50 |
| PE ratio | 31.1797 |
| Dividend yield | $0.42 (0.52%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.95 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $97.5 from 2024-07-23
| 1 week (2024-07-18) | 4.52% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-06-25) | 15.06% |
| 3 months (2024-04-25) | 17.33% |
| 6 months (2024-01-25) | 26.74% |
| 1 year (2023-07-25) | 56.55% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-07-25) | 158.62% |
| 3 years (2021-07-23) | 153.83% |
| 5 years (2019-07-25) | 254.48% |
Valuing Federal Signal Corporation stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Federal Signal Corporation's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Federal Signal Corporation's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 31x. In other words, Federal Signal Corporation shares trade at around 31x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Federal Signal Corporation's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.71. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Federal Signal Corporation's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Federal Signal Corporation's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $300.8 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Federal Signal Corporation's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $1.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 12.94% |
| Gross profit TTM | $344.9 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 9.25% |
| Return on equity TTM | 18.85% |
| Profit margin | 10.31% |
| Book value | $17.09 |
| Market Capitalization | $5.6 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 15.94% of net profits
Recently Federal Signal Corporation has paid out, on average, around 15.94% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0.52% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Federal Signal Corporation shareholders could enjoy a 0.52% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Federal Signal Corporation's case, that would currently equate to about $0.42 per share.
While Federal Signal Corporation's payout ratio might seem low, this can signify that Federal Signal Corporation is investing more in its future growth.
Federal Signal Corporation's most recent dividend payout was on 30 May 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 15 May 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Federal Signal Corporation's shares were split on a 4:3 basis on 1 March 1994. So if you had owned 3 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 4 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Federal Signal Corporation shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 25% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Federal Signal Corporation shares which in turn could have impacted Federal Signal Corporation's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Federal Signal Corporation's shares have ranged in value from as little as $56.1266 up to $99.78. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Federal Signal Corporation's is 0.95. This would suggest that Federal Signal Corporation's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Federal Signal Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and supplies a suite of products and integrated solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial, and commercial customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Environmental Solutions Group, and Safety and Security Systems Group. The Environmental Solutions Group segment manufactures and supplies street sweepers, sewer cleaners, industrial vacuum loaders, safe-digging trucks, dump truck bodies, and trailers, as well as waterblasting, road-marking, line-removal, and metal extraction support equipment under the Elgin, Vactor, Guzzler, TRUVAC, WestechTM, Jetstream, Blasters, Mark Rite Lines, Trackless, Ox Bodies, Crysteel, J-Craft, Duraclass, Rugby, Travis, OSW, NTE, WTB, Ground Force, TowHaul, Bucks, and Switch-N-Go brands; and provides refuse and recycling collection vehicles through a dealer network or direct sales to service customers. This segment also engages in the sale of parts, service and repair, equipment rentals, and training. The Safety and Security Systems Group segment provides systems for community alerting, emergency vehicles, first responder interoperable communications, and industrial communications; public safety equipment, such as vehicle lightbars and sirens, industrial signaling equipment, public warning systems, and general alarm/public address systems under the Federal Signal, Federal Signal VAMA, and Victor brands. This segment sells products through wholesalers, distributors, independent manufacturer representatives, original equipment manufacturers, and direct sales force, as well as independent foreign distributors. Federal Signal Corporation was founded in 1901 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.
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