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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. 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
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Fastenal Company (FAST) Return on invested capital

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Fastenal Company's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 28.9%, up 1.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (27.3%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 22.5% (fiscal 2016) to 28.2% (fiscal 2023); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. That is above the Industrial Distribution industry median of 8.13% and above the Industrials sector median of 2.30%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 27.3% 0.78
FY2024 26.5% (1.69)
FY2023 28.2% 2.15
FY2022 26.1% 2.24
FY2021 23.8% (0.86)
FY2020 24.7% 1.37
FY2019 23.3% (0.40)
FY2018 23.7% 0.69
FY2017 23.0% 0.51
FY2016 22.5% (2.93)

Against its own ten years

Low 22.5% High 28.2%
Ten-year median 24.7%
Current reading's percentile 91

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
FAST Fastenal Company 28.9%
GWW W.W. Grainger, Inc. compare 27.1%
FERG Ferguson plc compare 18.8%
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. compare 17.2%
WSO.B Watsco, Inc. compare 14.2%
WSO Watsco, Inc. compare 13.6%
CNM Core & Main, Inc. compare 10.9%
WCC WESCO International, Inc. compare 8.13%
QXO QXO, Inc. compare −1.53%
Industrial Distribution industry median 8.13%
Industrials sector median 2.30%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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