Federal Signal (FSS) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)
Federal Signal (FSS) has disclosed Operating Margin for 16 consecutive years, with 13.98% as the latest value for Q4 2025.
- On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 87.0% to 13.98% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 15.63%, a 52.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 15.63%, up 52.0% from a year prior.
- Operating Margin was 13.98% for Q4 2025 at Federal Signal, down from 16.94% in the prior quarter.
- In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 17.3% in Q2 2025 to a low of 8.63% in Q1 2022.
- A 5-year average of 13.09% and a median of 13.1% in 2024 define the central range for Operating Margin.
- Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: tumbled -148bps in 2021, then skyrocketed 311bps in 2024.
- Federal Signal's Operating Margin stood at 9.99% in 2021, then grew by 19bps to 11.9% in 2022, then increased by 18bps to 14.07% in 2023, then increased by 6bps to 14.85% in 2024, then dropped by -6bps to 13.98% in 2025.
- Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for FSS's Operating Margin are 13.98% (Q4 2025), 16.94% (Q3 2025), and 17.3% (Q2 2025).