NASDAQ:FAST - Fastenal Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Fastenal announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, January 16th. Investors of record on Friday, January 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.25 per share on Friday, February 28th. This represents a $1.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.77%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 30th. This is a positive change from Fastenal's previous quarterly dividend of $0.22. View Fastenal's Dividend History.

Shares of Fastenal split on the morning of Wednesday, May 22nd 2019. The 2-1 split was announced on Thursday, April 18th 2019. The newly minted shares were payable to shareholders after the closing bell on Tuesday, May 21st 2019. An investor that had 100 shares of Fastenal stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) issued its quarterly earnings data on Friday, January, 17th. The company reported $0.31 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.31. The business had revenue of $1.28 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.29 billion. Fastenal had a net margin of 14.83% and a return on equity of 31.16%. The firm's revenue for the quarter was up 3.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $0.60 EPS. View Fastenal's Earnings History.

Fastenal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 9th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Fastenal.

12 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Fastenal's stock. Their forecasts range from $30.00 to $377.00. On average, they expect Fastenal's stock price to reach $78.63 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 118.0% 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 1 sell rating, 9 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Fastenal.

News coverage about FAST stock has trended somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm ranks the sentiment of media coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fastenal earned a news impact score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 7.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Fastenal.

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Fastenal's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Riverbridge Partners LLC (0.54%), Marathon Asset Management LLP (0.27%), Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC (0.24%), Fenimore Asset Management Inc. (0.24%), Chicago Capital LLC (0.10%) and Mountain Pacific Investment Advisers Inc. ID (0.08%). Company insiders that own Fastenal stock include Charles S Miller, Daniel L Florness, Daniel L Johnson, Holden Lewis, James C Jansen, John Lewis Soderberg, Leland J Hein, Michael J Ancius, Michael John Dolan, Nicholas J Lundquist, Sheryl Ann Lisowski, 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 Marathon Asset Management LLP, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank , Nisa Investment Advisors LLC, Raymond James Trust N.A., Janney Montgomery Scott LLC and Chicago Capital LLC. Company insiders that have sold Fastenal company stock in the last year include Charles S Miller, Daniel L Florness, John Lewis Soderberg, Leland J Hein, Michael John Dolan, Nicholas J Lundquist, Sheryl Ann Lisowski, Terry Modock Owen, Willard D Oberton and William Joseph Drazkowski. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fastenal.

FAST stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including TIAA FSB, Fenimore Asset Management Inc., Exchange Traded Concepts LLC, Manning & Napier Group LLC, SeaCrest Wealth Management LLC, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Access Financial Services Inc. and First Financial Bank Trust Division. Company insiders that have bought Fastenal stock in the last two years include Daniel L Florness, Daniel L Johnson, 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, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of FAST stock can currently be purchased for approximately $36.06.

Fastenal has a market capitalization of $20.68 billion and generates $5.33 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $178.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.38 on an earnings per share basis. Fastenal employs 21,644 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Fastenal.

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]