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 given 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 2.73%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, January 30th. This is an increase from Fastenal's previous quarterly dividend of $0.40. View Fastenal's Dividend History.

Fastenal declared that its Board of Directors has approved a stock buyback program on Wednesday, July 12th 2017, which allows the company to buyback 5,000,000 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization allows the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 17th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.60. The business earned $1.23 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.22 billion. Fastenal had a net margin of 15.14% and a return on equity of 33.48%. The business's revenue was up 13.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $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.

14 brokers have issued 12-month price targets for Fastenal's stock. Their predictions range from $49.00 to $63.00. On average, they expect Fastenal's share price to reach $56.0909 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 10.9%. View Analyst Price Targets for Fastenal.

14 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 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 neutral on Saturday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Fastenal earned a daily sentiment score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave press coverage about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future.

Fastenal saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 26,261,976 shares, an increase of 9.0% from the January 15th total of 24,100,895 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 4,175,664 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 6.3 days. Currently, 9.3% of the company's stock are sold short. View Fastenal's Current Options Chain.

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Fastenal's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional 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, 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 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, Leland J Hein, Michael John Dolan, Nicholas J Lundquist, Sheryl Ann Lisowski 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 Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund, London Co. of Virginia, Pendal Group Ltd, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., First Trust Advisors LP, Northern Trust Corp and Cantillon Capital Management LLC. 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 $62.97.

Fastenal has a market capitalization of $18.01 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]