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) Net margin

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Fastenal Company's net margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 15.6%, up 0.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (15.4%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 12.6% (fiscal 2016) to 15.7% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 4.95% and above the Industrials sector median of 2.22%.

Net margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Net margin Change (points)
FY2025 15.4% 0.10
FY2024 15.3% (0.47)
FY2023 15.7% 0.15
FY2022 15.6% 0.18
FY2021 15.4% 0.18
FY2020 15.2% 0.38
FY2019 14.8% (0.31)
FY2018 15.1% 1.96
FY2017 13.2% 0.58
FY2016 12.6% (0.75)

Quarterly newest first

Period Net margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 16.3% 0.26
Jun 2026 16.0% 0.61
Mar 2026 15.4% 0.93
Dec 2025 14.5% (1.23)
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Against its own ten years

Low 12.6% High 15.7%
Ten-year median 15.2%
Current reading's percentile 91

Net margin against peers

Company Net margin
FAST Fastenal Company 15.6%
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. compare 9.92%
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 8.35%
FERG Ferguson plc compare 7.15%
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 6.54%
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. compare 6.54%
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 5.96%
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 2.86%
QXO QXO, Inc. compare −6.63%
Industrial Distribution industry median 4.95%
Industrials sector median 2.22%
Market median 0.45%

What Net margin is

Net Profit Margin tells an investor how much of each unit of revenue ends up as profit for shareholders after all costs, interest and taxes.

Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Revenue

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