FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION
At today's price, FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION (FSS) is priced for +21.1% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Federal Signal builds the specialized municipal iron that cities cannot skip: street sweepers, sewer cleaners, and safe-digging vacuum trucks sold under leading U.S. brands like Elgin, with roughly 79% of net sales in the United States and a service-center aftermarket layered on top [Source: FY2025 10-K]. • The single largest risk is demand cyclicality tied to public budgets: management itself notes profitability depends heavily on U.S. governmental and municipal markets and the broader econom
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435 institutional managers reported holding FSS in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 71 opened new positions that quarter. Held by BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street, among others. On the short side, 3.9M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (8.2 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
FSS's share count is about flat over the past five years ($83.30M of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has for 12 years running, raised 3 years straight; the current rate is $0.56 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $84.80M in dividends and $52.00M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at FSS over the trailing three years: 2025: 1 buy totaling $103k; 2026: 1 buy totaling $222k. 13 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
FSS's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-10 | -2.1% | -11.8% |
| 2022-03-02 | +1.4% | +3.5% |
| 2022-05-03 | -0.9% | +1.2% |
| 2022-11-04 | -0.1% | +6.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
FSS's latest 8-K filings: 2026-05-20 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-04-22 (items 5.07, 9.01); 2026-03-02 (items 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-26 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-01-16 (items 8.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 1, 2026
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