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Company snapshot — Federal Signal Corporation

FSS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Federal Signal builds vehicles and equipment for municipal and industrial customers, spanning street sweepers, sewer cleaners, vacuum loaders and safe-digging trucks alongside dump bodies and refuse-collection vehicles sold through dealers, plus public-safety products such as sirens, lightbars and community-alert systems sold through distributors and OEMs. It runs two segments, one for environmental and infrastructure machinery, the other for safety and security systems, serving governments and companies across North America and abroad. The company is based in Downers Grove, Illinois, and traces back to the start of the twentieth century.
Where it sits in the stack
Federal Signal carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Industrials sector, within the heavy and farm machinery sleeve of our wider universe, alongside vocational and municipal vehicle makers rather than the AI build-out names the diary tracks closely.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not built a peer group for this name; the comparison the market often draws is with Oshkosh Corporation, another maker of specialty and vocational vehicles for municipal and defence customers.
Why Closelook tracks it
Federal Signal holds no seat in our index, carries no Closelook score yet, and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches municipal capital budgets and public-safety procurement cycles, since demand for street, sewer and emergency vehicles tends to move with local government spending rather than the AI infrastructure cycle.

Federal Signal Corporation (FSS) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for FSS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · US · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery · US

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against FSS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.52%, quarterly · buybacks 40 m USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What FSS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.59 USD per share · a 0.52% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +40.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.42 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.15 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-14
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.56 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.45 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-14
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 34 m USD 12% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 40 m USD 0.6% of today's market value
  • Share count −0.3% in FY2025 15 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 74 m USD · 32% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is Federal Signal Corporation (FSS)?

Federal Signal Corporation trades as FSS on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is FSS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Federal Signal Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does FSS trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -5.1% vs the 50-day and -1.2% vs the 200-day average, 15.3% below the 52-week high and +12.6% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 58 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Federal Signal Corporation do?

Federal Signal builds vehicles and equipment for municipal and industrial customers, spanning street sweepers, sewer cleaners, vacuum loaders and safe-digging trucks alongside dump bodies and refuse-collection vehicles sold through dealers, plus public-safety products such as sirens, lightbars and community-alert systems sold through distributors and OEMs. It runs two segments, one for environmental and infrastructure machinery, the other for safety and security systems, serving governments and companies across North America and abroad. The company is based in Downers Grove, Illinois, and traces back to the start of the twentieth century. Closelook has not built a peer group for this name; the comparison the market often draws is with Oshkosh Corporation, another maker of specialty and vocational vehicles for municipal and defence customers.

Where does Federal Signal Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Federal Signal carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Industrials sector, within the heavy and farm machinery sleeve of our wider universe, alongside vocational and municipal vehicle makers rather than the AI build-out names the diary tracks closely. Federal Signal holds no seat in our index, carries no Closelook score yet, and has not appeared in the diary's editions or quotes so far.

Does Federal Signal Corporation pay a dividend?

Federal Signal Corporation has paid 0.59 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.52% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.15 USD on 2026-08-14. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 34 m USD in dividends and bought back 40 m USD of its own shares, 32% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 0.3% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for FSS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.