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) EV/EBITDA

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As of 16 October 2026, Fastenal Company (FAST) trades at a EV/EBITDA of 29.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 11.5× (October 2015) to 33.2× (August 2025); the current reading is higher than 97% of that period. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 14.6× and above the Industrials sector median of 12.6×.

EV/EBITDA, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
FY2025 25.0× 2.50%
FY2024 24.4× 14.55%
FY2023 21.3× 26.19%
FY2022 16.9× (36.62%)
FY2021 26.6× 23.27%
FY2020 21.6× 22.03%
FY2019 17.7× 31.35%
FY2018 13.5× (15.08%)
FY2017 15.9× 3.19%
FY2016 15.4× 16.01%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
Sep 2026 29.0× 3.04%
Jun 2026 28.2× 0.15%
Mar 2026 28.1× 12.38%
Dec 2025 25.0× (20.08%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 11.5× High 33.2×
Ten-year median 18.6×
Current reading's percentile 97

EV/EBITDA against peers

Company EV/EBITDA
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 10.7×
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 13.9×
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. compare 14.6×
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 15.0×
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 20.2×
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. compare 21.5×
FAST Fastenal Company 29.9×
QXO QXO, Inc. compare 33.4×
FERG Ferguson plc compare 126×
Industrial Distribution industry median 14.6×
Industrials sector median 12.6×
Market median 11.0×

What EV/EBITDA is

Enterprise Value over EBITDA tells an investor how the market values a whole company, with debt added and cash taken off, against its operating earnings.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ EBITDA (TTM)

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