How is Fastenal (FAST) doing?
Fastenal is a company in the industrial, distribution industry, based in Winona, MN, worth $58.2B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
Fastenal shares are up 7% over the past year, 8 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Hot Hand. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 53rd percentile on market beat, the 31st on staying power and the 81st on business growth. It appears on 4 of our dashboards.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Hot Hand
Beating the market on a growing business with buyers adding, but its rank swings from week to week.
Hot Hand this month; Coiled Spring before that.
Also Hot Hand (59 in all): WAB · ROK · HAS · EMR · SON · ARW
How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Industrials / SMID, 133 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Broad industrial and small/mid-cap cyclicals — the economy beta.
Fastenal is +7% over the past year, against +11% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 65th of 133 in Industrials / SMID.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
About usual Fastenal typically moves 1.9% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 82% of large US stocks.
FAST on our dashboards
Every question where Fastenal appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with FAST highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings | 81Raised | 12 of 106 | Estimate change, 1M +0.3% · Expected EPS growth +2% · Stock vs S&P, 1M +0.8 pts |
| Which stocks climb with the least drama? Leading stocks | 77Steady | 52 of 60 | Return per swing 0.89 · Return a year +22% · Volatility 24% |
| Which companies are built to last? Business quality | 77Durable | 13 of 60 | Steady margins 84 · Reliable cash 56 · Balance sheet 92 |
| Where is money flowing in? Who’s buying and selling | 93Inflow | 36 of 60 | 30 days 59 · 5 days 37 · Net buying +14% |
Go deeper on Stox
FAST’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see FAST’s full profile on Stox.
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