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The short versionA profitable company with steady sales. Institutions are adding.
Going well
- Profitable
- Brings in more cash than it spends
- Little debt
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 3.8% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (83 bought, 40 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$35.200.0% that day
- Company value
- $370M
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 33.5x
- You pay about $34 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.66x
- Company value is 0.66 times a year of sales
- Cash vs value
- 2%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 12%
- Debt as a share of company value
From FSTR's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jun '26$138.6M-3.5% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $558.4M, up 10% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 1.7% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.4.3%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.24x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.1.4%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.7 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$25.2M
- MissShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+1.5% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.21.1%
- Revenue
- $540.0M
- +1.7% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +1.7%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $42.6M
- 0.24x equity
- Current ratio
- 1.87x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $138.6M
- -3.5% YoY
- EPS
- $0.29
- vs $0.27
- Op. margin
- 4.4%
- -0.9 pts
- Gross margin
- 22.3%
- +0.8 pts
- Free cash flow
- $14.3M
- Share count
- -2.3%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 0.5
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+3.8%Institutions added 3.8% to their holdings. 83 bought, 40 sold. 2 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions8.3M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
-1.7%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.3x · $47.9M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
11MNext reportIn 6 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 10
- Results filedMay 4
- Results filedMar 3
- Results filedNov 3, 2025
- Results filedAug 11, 2025
Flags and big holders
Offerings 6 months, flags 12 months, holders 90 days
No offerings, red flags or new big holders. Clean record.
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.