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FSTR vs RBC
Side-by-side comparison of L.B. Foster Company (FSTR) and RBC Bearings Incorporated (RBC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both FSTR and RBC operate in Metal Fabrications (Industrials), so they compete in similar markets.
- RBC is the larger of the two at $18.25B, about 42.8x FSTR ($426.3M).
- Over the past year, FSTR is up 108.3% and RBC is up 53.8% - FSTR leads by 54.5 points.
- RBC has been more active in the news (27 items in the past 4 weeks vs 25 for FSTR).
- RBC has more recent analyst coverage (13 ratings vs 3 for FSTR).
- Company
- L.B. Foster Company
- RBC Bearings Incorporated
- Price
- $40.91-2.27%
- $577.65-2.60%
- Market cap
- $426.3M
- $18.25B
- 1M return
- +0.16%
- -5.74%
- 1Y return
- +108.30%
- +53.84%
- Industry
- Metal Fabrications
- Metal Fabrications
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NYSE
- IPO
- 2022
- News (4w)
- 25
- 27
- Recent ratings
- 3
- 13
L.B. Foster Company
L.B. Foster Company provides products and services for the rail industry and solutions to support critical infrastructure projects worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Rail Technologies and Services; and Infrastructure Solutions. The Rail Technologies and Services segment offers new rail to passenger and short line freight railroads, industrial companies, and rail contractors; used rails; rail accessories, including track spikes and anchors, bolts, angle bars, tie plates, and other products; power rail, direct fixation fasteners, coverboards, and special accessories; and trackwork products, as well as engineers and manufactures insulated rail joints and related accessories. This segment also provides friction management products and application systems, railroad condition monitoring systems and equipment, wheel impact load detection systems, wayside data collection and management systems, track fasteners, and engineered concrete railroad ties; and aftermarket services. The Infrastructure Solutions segment sells and rents steel sheet piling, H-bearing pile, and other piling products; and bridge decking, bridge railing, structural steel fabrications, expansion joints, bridge forms, and other products for highway construction and repair. This segment produces precast concrete buildings and various specialty precast concrete products; and fabricated steel and aluminum products. It also offers pipe coatings for oil and gas pipelines and utilities; precision measurement systems for the oil and gas markets; and solutions for metering and injection systems for the oil and gas markets, as well as threaded pipe products for the oil and gas, industrial water well, and irrigation markets. The company markets its products directly, as well as through a network of agents. L.B. Foster Company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
RBC Bearings Incorporated
Regal Beloit Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells electric motors, electrical motion controls, and power generation and transmission products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions, and Power Transmission Solutions. The Commercial Systems segment provides AC and DC motors, electronic variable speed controls, fans, blowers, and precision stator and rotor kits. The Industrial Systems segment offers AC motors for industrial applications; electric alternators for prime and standby power applications to data centers, distributed energy, microgrid, rental marine, agriculture, healthcare, mobile, and defense markets; and switchgear for healthcare, government, and waste water applications, as well as residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The Climate Solutions segment provides fractional motors, electronic variable speed controls, and blowers for use in a residential and light commercial air moving applications; and fractional horsepower motors and blowers for white goods, water heating equipment, small pumps, compressors, and fans. The Power Transmission Solutions segment offers bearings; conveyors; disc, diaphragms, gear and flexible couplings, transmission elements, gears, grids, jaws, elastomers, and disc couplings; mechanical power transmission drives and components; and worm gearing, shaft configuration, helical offset, concentric and right angle, bevel and miter gearing, and spur gearing products, as well as modular plastic belts, conveying chains, and hydraulic pump drives. This segment serves beverage, bulk handling, metal, special machinery, energy, and aerospace and general industrial markets. The company sells its products directly to original equipment manufacturers and end-users through a network of direct and independent sales representatives, and distributors. Regal Beloit Corporation was founded in 1955 and is based in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Latest FSTR
- L.B. Foster Company to Present at Three Part Advisors' East Coast IDEAS Investor Conference on June 11, 2026, in New York City, NY
- EVP & COO Thalman William M was granted 1,128 shares, increasing direct ownership by 1% to 79,882 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP and CFO Reilly Sean M was granted 895 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 29,953 units (SEC Form 4)
- Controller and PAO Curran Timothy Joseph was granted 295 shares, increasing direct ownership by 3% to 9,090 units (SEC Form 4)
- New insider Curran Timothy Joseph claimed ownership of 8,795 shares (SEC Form 3)
- SEC Form SD filed by L.B. Foster Company
- SVP, Operational Admin Rolli Sara Fay covered exercise/tax liability with 352 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 9,224 units (SEC Form 4)
- EVP & CFO Thalman William M covered exercise/tax liability with 1,178 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 78,754 units (SEC Form 4)
- SVP, Chief Growth Officer Friedman Brian Hunter covered exercise/tax liability with 416 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 31,132 units (SEC Form 4)
- EVP General Counsel & Sec. Guinee Patrick J. covered exercise/tax liability with 1,077 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 87,341 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest RBC
- V.P. and General Manager Edwards Richard J covered exercise/tax liability with 455 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 10,498 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice President and CFO Sullivan Robert M covered exercise/tax liability with 469 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 4% to 12,775 units (SEC Form 4)
- President and CEO Hartnett Michael J covered exercise/tax liability with 4,892 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 307,188 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice President and Secretary Feeney John J. covered exercise/tax liability with 131 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 5% to 2,603 units (SEC Form 4)
- Vice President and COO Bergeron Daniel A covered exercise/tax liability with 1,630 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 113,824 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Stewart Edward exercised 600 shares at a strike of $199.16 and sold $355,695 worth of shares (600 units at $592.83) (SEC Form 4)
- Director Boyan Barry C. sold $328,354 worth of shares (555 units at $591.63), decreasing direct ownership by 13% to 3,751 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 144 filed by RBC Bearings Incorporated
- SEC Form SD filed by RBC Bearings Incorporated
- Vice President and CFO Sullivan Robert M covered exercise/tax liability with 176 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 1% to 13,244 units (SEC Form 4)