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/Sales

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As of 16 October 2026, Fastenal Company (FAST) trades at a EV/Sales of 6.4×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 2.7× (October 2015) to 7.4× (August 2025); the current reading is higher than 96% of that period. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 1.3× and above the Industrials sector median of 1.9×.

EV/Sales, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
FY2025 5.6× 2.69%
FY2024 5.5× 10.18%
FY2023 4.9× 25.48%
FY2022 3.9× (35.90%)
FY2021 6.2× 23.26%
FY2020 5.0× 24.64%
FY2019 4.0× 29.64%
FY2018 3.1× (15.37%)
FY2017 3.6× 4.44%
FY2016 3.5× 11.36%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/Sales Change
Sep 2026 6.2× (0.70%)
Jun 2026 6.3× 0.03%
Mar 2026 6.3× 12.35%
Dec 2025 5.6× (20.35%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 2.7× High 7.4×
Ten-year median 4.3×
Current reading's percentile 95

EV/Sales against peers

Company EV/Sales
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 0.9×
QXO QXO, Inc. compare 1.2×
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 1.3×
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. compare 1.5×
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 1.5×
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 2.5×
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. compare 3.4×
FAST Fastenal Company 6.4×
FERG Ferguson plc compare 13.8×
Industrial Distribution industry median 1.3×
Industrials sector median 1.9×
Market median 2.1×

What EV/Sales is

EV/Sales tells an investor how the value of a whole company, counting its debt and cash, compares with the sales it brings in.

((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)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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