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

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

Fastenal announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 16th. Investors of record on Thursday, January 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.43 per share on Wednesday, February 27th. This represents a $1.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.69%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, January 30th. This is a boost from Fastenal's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View Fastenal's Dividend History.

Fastenal announced that its Board of Directors has approved a share buyback plan on Wednesday, July 12th 2017, which permits the company to repurchase 5,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 17th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.60. The business had revenue of $1.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.22 billion. Fastenal had a return on equity of 33.48% and a net margin of 15.14%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 13.1% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.45 earnings per share. View Fastenal's Earnings History.

Fastenal is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, April 10th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Fastenal.

13 brokers have issued 12-month price objectives for Fastenal's stock. Their predictions range from $50.00 to $63.00. On average, they anticipate Fastenal's stock price to reach $56.7778 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.1%. View Analyst Price Targets for Fastenal.

13 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Fastenal in the last year. There are currently 9 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Fastenal.

Media coverage about FAST stock has trended very negative on Thursday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Fastenal earned a media sentiment score of -3.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term.

Fastenal saw a drop in short interest during the month of February. As of February 15th, there was short interest totalling 23,705,393 shares, a drop of 9.7% from the January 31st total of 26,261,976 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,357,320 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 10.1 days. Currently, 8.4% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Fastenal's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Fastenal investors own include CA (CA), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Caterpillar (CAT), The Coca-Cola (KO), Procter & Gamble (PG), BlackRock (BLK), Verizon Communications (VZ) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Fastenal's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (6.94%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (5.55%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.46%), Northern Trust Corp (1.28%), Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (1.27%) and Cantillon Capital Management LLC (1.13%). 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, John Lewis Soderberg, Leland J Hein, Michael J Ancius, Michael John Dolan, Nicholas J Lundquist, Sheryl Ann Lisowski, Stephen L Eastman, Terry Modock Owen 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 Millennium Management LLC, D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Nicholas Company Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, LPL Financial LLC, Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. and Bank of Montreal Can. Company insiders that have sold Fastenal company stock in the last year include James C Jansen, John Lewis Soderberg, Leland J Hein, Michael John Dolan, Nicholas J Lundquist and Sheryl Ann Lisowski. View Insider Buying and Selling for Fastenal.

FAST stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, London Co. of Virginia, Norges Bank, Pendal Group Ltd, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Nordea Investment Management AB and First Trust Advisors LP. 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 $63.88.

Fastenal has a market capitalization of $18.28 billion and generates $4.97 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $751.90 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.63 on an earnings per share basis. Fastenal employs 21,644 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]