Industrials
Live Price
Offline$46.88
+1.34% today
1Y Change
+12.50%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 250 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Fastenal Company (FAST) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $51.33B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $46.88 and up 12.5% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +8.7%, EPS growth of +10.0%, a dividend yield of 2.1%. What stands out right now is revenue +8.7%, EPS +10.0%, free cash flow +11.0% with operating margin 20.2% and ROIC 28.8%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 2.1%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 39.5 and price/sales 6.1. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a quality compounder than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines FAST price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
FAST
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
FAST Max Drawdown
-22.31%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for FAST and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$6.0B
-13.9% YoY
FY Net Income
$925.0M
-14.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$613.5M
-20.0% YoY
Revenue Growth
+8.7%
EPS Growth
+10.0%
Gross Margin
44.9%
Net Margin
15.4%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 8.2B | 7.5B | 7.3B | 7.0B | 6.0B |
| Gross Profit | 3.7B | 3.4B | 3.4B | 3.2B | 2.8B |
| Operating Income | 1.7B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.5B | 1.2B |
| EBITDA | 1.7B | 1.7B | 1.7B | 1.6B | 1.4B |
| Net Income | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.2B | 1.1B | 925M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 277M | 256M | 221M | 230M | 236M |
| Total Assets | 5.1B | 4.7B | 4.5B | 4.5B | 4.3B |
| Total Liabilities | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.1B | 1.4B | 1.3B |
| Shareholder Equity | 3.9B | 3.6B | 3.3B | 3.2B | 3.0B |
| Total Debt | 442M | 485M | 535M | 802M | 637M |
| Net Debt | 165M | 230M | 314M | 572M | 401M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
770M
-18.2% YoY
Capital Expenditures
157M
+9.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
614M
-20.0% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
44.9%
Operating Margin
20.2%
Net Margin
15.4%
ROE
33.3%
Debt / Equity
0.11x
Next Step
Use the numbers to decide whether this is a growth candidate, a quality compounder, or just an interesting outlier.