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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.

Revenue
+15.5%
EPS
+20.7%
Free cash flow
+5.27%
Total debt
−48.7%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

53.02 0.12 +0.23%
Market cap
$60.7B
P/E
42.6×
Fwd P/E
40.8×
Dividend yield
1.89%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
29.34
Beneish M
−2.39
Dividend safety
51/100
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Fastenal Company (FAST) Operating margin

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Fastenal Company's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 20.5%, up 0.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (20.2%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 19.8% (fiscal 2019) to 21.4% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 55% of that period. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 7.44% and above the Industrials sector median of 5.21%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 20.2% 0.18
FY2024 20.0% (0.80)
FY2023 20.8% (0.01)
FY2022 20.8% 0.57
FY2021 20.3% 0.03
FY2020 20.2% 0.40
FY2019 19.8% (0.30)
FY2018 20.1% 0.04
FY2017 20.1% (0.01)
FY2016 20.1% (1.33)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 21.6% 0.53
Jun 2026 21.0% 0.69
Mar 2026 20.3% 1.38
Dec 2025 19.0% (1.75)
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Against its own ten years

Low 19.8% High 21.4%
Ten-year median 20.2%
Current reading's percentile 74

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
FAST Fastenal Company 20.5%
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. compare 15.8%
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 11.2%
FERG Ferguson plc compare 9.73%
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 9.64%
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. compare 9.40%
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 9.08%
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 5.57%
QXO QXO, Inc. compare −3.40%
Industrial Distribution industry median 7.44%
Industrials sector median 5.21%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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