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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 August 7, 2026, FAST stock price climbed to $51.84 with 9,188,859 million shares trading.
FAST has a beta of -0.08, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FAST has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
FAST has a market cap of $59.47 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Fastenal Company reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.33 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $51 million and met earnings estimates .
In the last 3 years, FAST traded as high as $51.90 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 +12.9%, while SPY returned +23.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in FAST shares. However, FAST has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +16.5% and +12.9%, while SPY returned +5.6% and +4.8%, respectively. This indicates FAST has been having a stronger performance recently.
FAST support price is $49.85 and resistance is $51.75 (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.