Fastenal Company

FAST Industrials Industrial Distribution

Fastenal Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $8.2 billion, up 8.67% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to September 2026, revenue grew 15.5%, EPS grew 20.7%, free cash flow grew 5.27% and total debt fell 48.7%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100; dividend growth for five consecutive years, revenue growth for ten; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

51.02 0.64 +1.27%
Market cap
$57.8B
P/E
41.1×
Fwd P/E
37.8×
Dividend yield
1.88%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
29.34
Beneish M
−2.39
Dividend safety
51/100

Fastenal Company (FAST) Current ratio

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Fastenal Company's current ratio at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was 3.9×, down 0.9× from fiscal 2025 (4.9×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 4.0× (fiscal 2022) to 6.2× (fiscal 2016); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 2.5× and above the Industrials sector median of 1.8×.

Current ratio, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Current ratio Change
FY2025 4.9× 3.79%
FY2024 4.7× 2.33%
FY2023 4.6× 15.46%
FY2022 4.0× (5.51%)
FY2021 4.2× 2.64%
FY2020 4.1× (9.57%)
FY2019 4.5× (14.81%)
FY2018 5.3× (3.98%)
FY2017 5.5× (11.64%)
FY2016 6.2× 39.91%

Quarterly newest first

Period Current ratio Change
Sep 2026 3.9× (5.96%)
Jun 2026 4.2× (4.85%)
Mar 2026 4.4× (9.47%)
Dec 2025 4.9× 13.93%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 4.0× High 6.2×
Ten-year median 4.6×
Current reading's percentile 73

Current ratio against peers

Company Current ratio
QXO QXO, Inc. compare 4.1×
FAST Fastenal Company 3.9×
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 3.2×
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. compare 3.2×
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. compare 2.8×
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 2.6×
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 2.5×
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 2.1×
FERG Ferguson plc compare 1.7×
Industrial Distribution industry median 2.5×
Industrials sector median 1.8×
Market median 1.6×

What Current ratio is

Current Ratio shows whether a company’s short-term assets are enough to cover the bills and debts it must pay within the next year.

Current Assets (Total) ÷ Current Liabilities (Total)

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