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

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

Fastenal declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 9th. Shareholders of record on Wednesday, October 24th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Wednesday, November 21st. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.97%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, October 23rd. View Fastenal's Dividend History.

Fastenal announced that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, July 12th 2017, which permits the company to buyback 5,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback plans are often a sign that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October, 10th. The company reported $0.69 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.67 by $0.02. The business had revenue of $1.28 billion for 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 revenue for the quarter was up 13.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $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 analysts have issued 12 month price objectives for Fastenal's shares. Their predictions range from $49.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate Fastenal's share price to reach $56.20 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 4.3% 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.

Press coverage about FAST stock has trended somewhat positive on Sunday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm ranks the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news 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 sentiment score of 1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next several days.

Fastenal saw a increase in short interest during 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 trading volume, of 3,743,354 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 6.6 days. Currently, 8.7% of the company's shares are short sold. View Fastenal's Current Options Chain.

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Fastenal's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (11.31%), 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%) and OppenheimerFunds Inc. (1.75%). 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, 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, 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, Vanguard Group Inc., Renaissance Technologies LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. 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 $53.87.

Fastenal has a market capitalization of $15.46 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]