NASDAQ:FAST - Fastenal Stock Price, News, & Analysis

Fastenal trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FAST."

Fastenal announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 9th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, October 24th will be given a dividend of $0.40 per share on Wednesday, November 21st. This represents a $1.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.92%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, October 23rd. View Fastenal's Dividend History.

Fastenal announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock buyback program on Wednesday, July 12th 2017, which allows the company to repurchase 5,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) announced its earnings results on Wednesday, October, 10th. The company reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.02. The company earned $1.28 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.27 billion. Fastenal had a net margin of 15.25% and a return on equity of 32.29%. Fastenal's quarterly revenue was up 13.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.50 earnings per share. View Fastenal's Earnings History.

Fastenal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, January 16th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Fastenal.

12 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Fastenal's stock. Their forecasts range from $49.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate Fastenal's stock price to reach $56.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 2.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Fastenal.

12 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fastenal in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 6 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Fastenal.

News stories about FAST stock have been trending extremely positive on Wednesday, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fastenal earned a news sentiment score of 5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Fastenal saw a increase in short interest in the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 24,757,758 shares, an increase of 4.7% from the November 15th total of 23,635,288 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 3,743,354 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.6 days. Approximately 8.7% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Fastenal's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Fastenal include Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Ferguson (FERGY), Tractor Supply (TSCO), TITAN Cem Co S/ADR (TITCY), AeroGrow International (AERO), GrowGeneration (GRWG) and Ferguson (FERGD).

Fastenal's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.31%), BlackRock Inc. (6.72%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (5.13%), Route One Investment Company L.P. (2.73%), OppenheimerFunds Inc. (1.75%) and Cantillon Capital Management LLC (1.04%). Company insiders that own Fastenal stock include Charles S Miller, Daniel L Florness, Daniel L Johnson, Darren R Jackson, Gary A Polipnick, Holden Lewis, James C Jansen, Leland J Hein, Michael J Ancius, Michael John Dolan, Reyne K Wisecup, Stephen L Eastman, Terry Modock Owen, Willard D Oberton and William Joseph Drazkowski. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Fastenal.

FAST stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including OppenheimerFunds Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Select Equity Group L.P., Baird Financial Group Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Grand Jean Capital Management Inc., Cantillon Capital Management LLC and Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Fastenal company stock in the last year include Charles S Miller, Gary A Polipnick, James C Jansen, Michael John Dolan and William Joseph Drazkowski. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fastenal.

FAST stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Alliancebernstein L.P., Park Presidio Capital LLC, Vanguard Group Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Company insiders that have bought Fastenal stock in the last two years include Daniel L Florness, Daniel L Johnson, Darren R Jackson, Holden Lewis, Michael J Ancius, Stephen L Eastman, Terry Modock Owen and William Joseph Drazkowski. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fastenal.

Shares of FAST can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FAST stock can currently be purchased for approximately $54.77.

Fastenal has a market capitalization of $15.86 billion and generates $4.39 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $578.60 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.93 on an earnings per share basis. Fastenal employs 20,565 workers across the globe.

The official website for Fastenal is http://www.fastenal.com.

Fastenal's mailing address is 2001 THEURER BLVD, WINONA MN, 55987. The company can be reached via phone at 507-454-5374 or via email at [email protected]