NASDAQ:FAST - Fastenal Stock Price, Price Target & More

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

Fastenal declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, July 10th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, July 25th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share on Wednesday, August 22nd. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.83%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, July 24th. This is a positive change from Fastenal's previous quarterly dividend of $0.37. View Fastenal's Dividend History.

Fastenal declared that its board has authorized a stock buyback plan on Wednesday, July 12th 2017, which allows the company to buyback 5,000,000 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to reacquire shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are usually an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July, 11th. The company reported $0.74 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.66 by $0.08. The business earned $1.27 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.26 billion. Fastenal had a return on equity of 30.82% and a net margin of 14.57%. The firm's revenue was up 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $0.52 EPS. View Fastenal's Earnings History.

Fastenal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October, 10th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Fastenal.

11 brokerages have issued 1 year price targets for Fastenal's shares. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $61.00. On average, they anticipate Fastenal's stock price to reach $54.80 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.9%. View Analyst Ratings for Fastenal.

11 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fastenal in the last year. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 5 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold."

Fastenal saw a increase in short interest in the month of June. As of June 29th, there was short interest totalling 24,476,073 shares, an increase of 5.4% from the June 15th total of 23,231,854 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,511,178 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 9.7 days. Currently, 8.6% of the company's stock are short sold. View Fastenal's Current Options Chain.

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Headlines about FAST stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, Accern Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group scores the sentiment of press coverage by analyzing more than 20 million blog and news sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -1 to 1, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Fastenal earned a news impact score of 0.03 on Accern's scale. They also gave news coverage about the company an impact score of 46.61 out of 100, meaning that recent press coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the next several days.

Fastenal's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Confluence Investment Management LLC (0.86%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (0.61%), Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.34%), Bank of Montreal Can (0.14%), Tikehau Investment Management (0.09%) and Retirement Systems of Alabama (0.05%). Company insiders that own Fastenal stock include Charles S Miller, 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 Ledyard National Bank, Riverbridge Partners LLC, Boyd Watterson Asset Management LLC OH, Cullinan Associates Inc., Manning & Napier Group LLC, Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, Financial & Investment Management Group Ltd. and American Capital Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Fastenal company stock in the last year include Charles S Miller, Gary A Polipnick, James C Jansen, Leland J Hein, Michael John Dolan, Terry Modock Owen 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 Bank of Montreal Can, Confluence Investment Management LLC, Hills Bank & Trust Co., First Financial Bank Trust Division, DnB Asset Management AS, Tikehau Investment Management, Bright Rock Capital Management LLC and Clinton Group Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Fastenal stock in the last two years include 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 $56.44.

Fastenal has a market capitalization of $15.95 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.

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]