Fastenal Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:FAST)

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fastenal in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 4 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" FAST shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in FAST, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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6 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Fastenal's shares. Their FAST share price targets range from $46.00 to $66.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $57.71 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.3%.
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Fastenal's stock was trading at $47.32 at the beginning of the year. Since then, FAST stock has increased by 31.6% and is now trading at $62.29.
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Fastenal saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 16,760,000 shares, an increase of 7.8% from the October 31st total of 15,550,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,270,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.1 days. Approximately 2.9% of the company's shares are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 18th 2024.
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Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, October, 12th. The company reported $0.52 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.50 by $0.02. The firm had revenue of $1.85 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.85 billion. Fastenal had a net margin of 15.57% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 34.16%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 2.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.50 EPS.
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Fastenal announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 20th. Investors of record on Wednesday, December 6th will be paid a dividend of $0.38 per share on Wednesday, December 20th. This represents a $1.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.44%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 5th. This is a boost from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.35.
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Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 2.24%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 24 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 70.35%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, FAST will have a dividend payout ratio of 66.04% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Shares of Fastenal split on Wednesday, May 22nd 2019. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, April 18th 2019. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Tuesday, May 21st 2019. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Fastenal announced that its board has approved a stock buyback program on Tuesday, July 12th 2022, which permits the company to buyback 8,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are usually a sign that the company's management believes its shares are undervalued.

714 employees have rated Fastenal Chief Executive Officer Daniel Florness on Glassdoor.com. Daniel Florness has an approval rating of 85% among the company's employees.

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Fastenal's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Bank of New York Mellon Corp (4.22%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (2.42%), Morgan Stanley (1.50%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (1.37%), Northern Trust Corp (1.30%) and Invesco Ltd. (1.18%). Insiders that own company stock include Charles S Miller, Daniel L Florness, Daniel L Johnson, Hsenghung Sam Hsu, James C Jansen, Jeffery Michael Watts, John Lewis Soderberg, Michael J Ancius, Michael J Ancius, Michael John Dolan, Nicholas J Lundquist, Reyne K Wisecup, Sarah N Nielsen, Sheryl Ann Lisowski, Stephen L Eastman, Stephen L Eastman, Terry Modock Owen and William Joseph Drazkowski.
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