Federal Signal Corporation (FSS)
Industrials · NYQ
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Federal Signal Corporation trades at $111.62, which is 54% below the $172.09 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 58 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 26.2 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
FSS dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $0.450 | 3 |
| 2025 | $0.560 | 4 |
| 2024 | $0.480 | 4 |
| 2023 | $0.390 | 4 |
| 2022 | $0.360 | 4 |
| 2021 | $0.360 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0.320 | 4 |
| 2019 | $0.320 | 4 |
| 2018 | $0.310 | 4 |
| 2017 | $0.280 | 4 |
| 2016 | $0.280 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
FSS earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 6 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Federal Signal Corporation
Federal Signal Corporation 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 company offers street sweepers, sewer cleaners, industrial vacuum loaders, safe-digging trucks, dump truck bodies, and trailers, as well as waterblasting, road-marking, line-removal, metal extraction support equipment, and multi-purpose maintenance vehicles under the ELGIN, VACTOR, GUZZLER, TRUVAC, WESTECH, JETSTREAM, BLASTERS, MARK RITE LINES, HOG, NEW WAY, 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. It is also involved in sale of parts, service and repair, equipment rentals, and training. The company also 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 brand names 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 Downers Grove, Illinois.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
FSS passes 6 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
10 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Mario Gabelli, GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL$40.64M · 0.4% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$26.59M · 0.0% of book
- Capital Research Global, Capital Research Global Investors$23.35M · 0.0% of book
- Paul Tudor Jones, TUDOR INVESTMENT CORP ET AL$12.29M · 0.0% of book
- D. E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc.$8.70M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in FSS
Trades in FSS disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 9 Mar 2026 · disclosed 7 Apr 2026
- Gilbert Cisneros · HouseBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 2 Mar 2026 · disclosed 9 Mar 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
FSS peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery), then in the same sector.
- CAT Caterpillar Inc.
- DTG.DE Daimler Truck Holding AG
- OSK Oshkosh Corporation
- TEX Terex Corporation
- ASTE Astec Industries, Inc.
- LNN Lindsay Corporation
- WNC Wabash National Corporation
- TWI Titan International, Inc.
Every industrials company we cover is on the Industrials hub.
Common questions
Is Federal Signal Corporation (FSS) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $172.09, FSS at $111.62 is 54% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own FSS?
10 of the institutions we track reported a position in FSS in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is FSS's P/E ratio?
FSS trades at 26.2 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Federal Signal Corporation (FSS) pay a dividend?
Yes. Federal Signal Corporation yields 0.52% at the current share price. It has paid $0.590 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 12 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its FSS data?
Fundamentals for FSS come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.