FSS Federal Signal Corporationdata gap · 92% coverage
Industrials · Construction Machinery & Heavy Transportation Equipment · close $112.39 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
Federal Signal Corporation (FSS) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 62/100 (grade C), ranking #128 of 202 in Industrials. Its strongest pillars are balance sheet (78) and growth (65); its weakest is cash flow (46). Data gap: 2 factors without usable data, so 92% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 24.0% and operating margin 16.2%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: Consensus score (1–5), 90-day net rating shift. Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 92% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · no data · —| Consensus score (1–5) (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
| 90-day net rating shift (0.0%)data gap | derived | — |
Growth
weight 30.83% (→33.3%) · 65| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 24.0% | 86 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (13.3%) | 29.6% | 75 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.7%) | -16.2% | 2 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 52| Operating margin (10.7%) | 16.2% | 59 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (9.3%) | 0.1% | 43 |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% (→20.0%) · 78| Net debt / EBITDA (10.7%) | 0.32× | 72 |
| Current ratio (5.3%) | 2.74 | 84 |
| Interest coverage (4.0%) | 28.04× | 87 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 46| FCF margin (6.7%) | 10.4% | 50 |
| FCF yield (6.7%) | 3.3% | 43 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% (→13.3%) · 59| P/E (inverted) (6.7%) | 24.22× | 64 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.7%) | 2.87× | 53 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 43.6 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 113.67 / 114.40 |
| 200-day SMA | 115.73 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.29× |
| 20-day return | -1.2% |
Exit-rule monitor
- WATCHTrend: close below 200-day average
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax · Gross profit: GrossProfit · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpense · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is FSS's House Rating?
- FSS scores 62 out of 100 (grade C) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #128 of 202 Industrials stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about FSS?
- We do not have enough analyst-sentiment data to score this stock.
- When does FSS report earnings next?
- We could not estimate FSS's next earnings date from SEC filings. Check the company's investor-relations page.
- Is FSS a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology