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Fastenal Company Announces Conference Call to Review 2026 Second Quarter Earnings
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Fastenal Company Reports 2026 First Quarter Earnings
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Fastenal Company Announces Cash Dividend and Share Repurchase Activity
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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.
Fastenal Company trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FAST.
As of July 2, 2026, FAST stock price climbed to $48.60 with 6,213,697 million shares trading.
FAST has a beta of 0.20, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FAST has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FAST has a market cap of $55.76 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Fastenal Company reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.30 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $4 million and met earnings estimates .
In the last 3 years, FAST traded as high as $50.63 and as low as $26.92.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that FAST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, SCHD, VOO, QQQ, VO.
FAST has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +16.0%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.3%. In the last 3 month period, FAST fell short of the market, returning +5.5%, while SPY returned +13.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks FAST has outperformed the stock market by returning +5.9%, while SPY returned -0.3%.
FAST support price is $46.99 and resistance is $48.51 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that FAST shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
