Fastenal/$FAST
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About Fastenal
Fastenal began as an industrial retailer, expanding its product portfolio from nuts and bolts to cutting tools, safety equipment, and janitorial supplies. It transitioned into a distributor by building out a dense network of branches close to its business customers. Once a customer becomes large enough, Fastenal installs vending machines and its own personnel on-site. Today, these on-site locations exceed Fastenal's branch count and remain the firm's main focus for expansion. Fastenal acts as a one-stop outsourcing partner for its industrial customers, offering value-added services along with a wide breadth of maintenance, repair, and operations supplies.
- Ticker
- $FAST
- Sector
- Industrials
- Primary listing
- NASDAQ
- Employees
- 21,749
- Headquarters
- Winona, United States
- Website
- www.fastenal.com
Fastenal Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$64B
45.11
$1.23
0.66
$0.96
1.87%
Price and volume
Market cap
$64B
Beta
0.66
52-week high
$55.62
52-week low
$38.97
Average daily volume
8M
Dividend rate
$0.96
Financial strength
Current ratio
3.93
Quick ratio
1.875
Long term debt to equity
0.069
Total debt to equity
0.109
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
77.68%
Interest coverage (TTM)
490.66%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
2,044.1
Gross margin (TTM)
44.61%
Net profit margin (TTM)
15.62%
Operating margin (TTM)
20.54%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
24.01%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$420,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
21.96%
Return on equity (TTM)
35.26%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
45.114
Price to revenue (TTM)
7.015
Price to book
15.34
Price to tangible book (TTM)
15.34
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
54.12
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
1.85%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
1.025
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.73%
Forward dividend yield
1.87%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
13.53%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
15.04%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
7.62%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
8.72%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
7.51%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
11.10%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
12.18%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
12.52%
What the Analysts think about Fastenal
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Bulls say / Bears say
Fastenal’s third-quarter sales rose 15.5% year on year, driven by customer wins, share gains and broader demand. That strong growth came alongside a modest improvement in industrial production. (Fastenal)
Growth with larger contract customers is building: they generated 76.5% of third-quarter sales, up from 73.8% a year earlier, and their daily sales rose 18.8%. This deeper customer integration supports a durable route to further share gains. (Fastenal)
Fastenal converted sales growth into stronger profits: operating income rose 20.2% and operating margin improved to 21.5% from 20.7%. Operating cash flow was also $422 million, or 105% of net income. (Fastenal)
Gross margin fell to 44.8% from 45.3% a year earlier, as growth in larger, lower-margin accounts and price-cost pressure outweighed other benefits. About 20 basis points of favourable margin effects came from timing and may not recur. (Fastenal)
September’s average daily sales growth of 14.4% fell short of investor expectations of roughly 17% to 18%, and the shares dropped more than 5% after results. That reaction shows how a high bar for growth can make the stock sensitive to any slowdown. (Reuters)
The shares’ premium valuation leaves less room for disappointment: a recent valuation assessment put them at $54.84 versus its estimated fair value of about $51. That makes the investment case more reliant on continued strong growth and execution. (Simply Wall St)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 11 Nov 2026.
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Funds containing Fastenal
AllUSDEURGBP
Fund name | Fund size | $FAST weighting |
|---|---|---|
iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector€2B7C | $700M | 1.17% |
iShares S&P 500 Industrials Sector£IISU | $700M | 1.17% |
iShares MSCI USA Quality Dividend ESG£HDIQ | $850M | 0.96% |
iShares MSCI USA Quality Dividend Advanced$QDIV | $850M | 0.96% |
SPDR S&P US Dividend Aristocrats£USDV | $3.6B | 0.95% |
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