FAST Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Fastenal Company | NASDAQ:FAST)

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.

What symbol and exchange does Fastenal Company shares trade?

Fastenal Company trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol FAST.

What is Fastenal Company stock price doing today?

As of December 5, 2025, FAST stock price declined to $41.50 with 6,430,902 million shares trading.

What is Fastenal Company's Beta?

FAST has a beta of 0.59, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. FAST has a correlation of 0.19 to the broad based SPY ETF.

How much is Fastenal Company worth?

FAST has a market cap of $47.61 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

How much money does Fastenal Company make?

Last quarter Fastenal Company reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.29 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.01.

What is the highest and lowest price Fastenal Company traded in the last 3 year period?

In the last 3 years, FAST traded as high as $50.63 and as low as $22.85.

What are the top ETFs holding Fastenal Company?

The top ETF exchange traded funds that FAST belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, SCHD, VOO, VO, QQQ.

Is Fastenal Company (FAST) a good investment?

FAST has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.2%, while the SPY ETF gained +14.0%. In the last 3 month period, FAST fell short of the market, returning -17.0%, while SPY returned +5.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks FAST has outperformed the stock market by returning +6.0%, while SPY returned +5.1%.

What are the support and resistance levels for Fastenal Company (FAST)?

FAST support price is $41.23 and resistance is $42.28 (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.