CoverageForm 410-K10-Q8-K13D13G13F

FAST · Fastenal Co - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

Price · FAST

Income Statement

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Revenue$8.20B$7.55B$7.35B$6.98B$6.01B$5.65B
Cost of Revenue$4.51B$4.14B$3.99B$3.76B$3.23B$3.08B
Gross Profit$3.69B$3.40B$3.35B$3.22B$2.78B$2.57B
R&D------
SG&A$2.04B$1.89B$1.83B$1.76B$1.56B$1.43B
Total Operating Expenses------
D&A$179.20M$175.40M$166.60M$165.90M$159.90M$153.30M
Operating Income$1.66B$1.51B$1.53B$1.45B$1.22B$1.14B
Interest Expense$6.20M$7.30M$10.80M$14.30M$9.70M$9.70M
Income Tax$396.60M$357.50M$367.00M$353.10M$282.80M$273.60M
Net Income$1.26B$1.15B$1.16B$1.09B$925.00M$859.10M
EPS - Basic$1.10$1.00$1.01$0.94$0.81$0.75
EPS - Diluted$1.09$1.00$1.01$0.94$0.80$0.74

Balance Sheet

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Cash & Equivalents$276.80M$255.80M$221.30M$230.10M$236.20M$245.70M
Accounts Receivable$1.25B$1.11B$1.09B$1.01B$900.20M$769.40M
Inventory$1.75B$1.65B$1.52B$1.71B$1.52B$1.34B
Accounts Payable$316.80M$287.70M$264.10M$255.00M$233.10M$207.00M
Current Assets$3.47B$3.21B$3.02B$3.12B$2.86B$2.50B
Total Assets$5.05B$4.70B$4.46B$4.55B$4.30B$3.96B
Current Liabilities$715.60M$687.10M$661.30M$789.80M$682.20M$612.70M
Long-term Debt$100.00M$125.00M$200.00M$353.20M$330.00M$365.00M
Total Liabilities------
Stockholders' Equity$3.94B$3.62B$3.35B$3.16B$3.04B$2.73B
Retained Earnings$3.87B$3.61B$3.36B$3.22B$2.97B$2.69B

Cash Flow

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Operating Cash Flow$1.30B$1.17B$1.43B$941.00M$770.10M$1.10B
Investing Cash Flow($231.00M)($214.50M)($161.20M)($163.00M)($148.50M)($281.70M)
Financing Cash Flow($1.05B)($913.70M)($1.28B)($774.90M)($627.10M)($754.40M)
CapEx$245.30M$226.50M$172.80M$173.80M$156.60M$168.10M
Free Cash Flow$1.05B$946.80M$1.26B$767.20M$613.50M$933.70M

Ratios

MetricFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Profitability
Gross margin45.0%45.1%45.7%46.1%46.2%45.5%
Operating margin20.2%20.0%20.8%20.8%20.3%20.2%
EBITDA margin22.4%22.3%23.1%23.2%22.9%22.9%
Net margin15.3%15.2%15.7%15.6%15.4%15.2%
Free cash flow margin12.8%12.5%17.1%11.0%10.2%16.5%
FCF / Net income0.830.821.090.710.661.09
R&D / Revenue------
SG&A / Revenue24.8%25.1%24.9%25.2%25.9%25.3%
Effective tax rate24.0%23.7%24.1%24.5%23.4%24.2%
Return on assets24.9%24.5%25.9%23.9%21.5%21.7%
Return on equity31.9%31.8%34.5%34.4%30.4%31.4%
Return on invested capital31.1%30.8%32.7%31.2%27.6%28.0%
Liquidity
Current ratio4.854.674.573.964.194.08
Quick ratio2.412.282.271.791.951.90
Cash ratio0.390.370.330.290.350.40
Leverage
Debt / Equity0.030.030.060.110.110.13
Debt / Assets0.020.030.040.080.080.09
Debt / EBITDA0.050.070.120.220.240.28
Interest coverage267.0x206.8x141.5x101.7x125.5x117.7x
Equity multiplier1.281.301.331.441.411.45
Liabilities / Assets------
Efficiency
Asset turnover1.621.611.651.531.401.42
Inventory turnover2.582.522.622.202.122.30
Days sales outstanding55d54d54d53d55d50d
Days inventory outstanding141d145d139d166d172d159d
Days payable outstanding26d25d24d25d26d25d
Cash conversion cycle171d173d169d194d200d184d
Valuation
P / E36.8x36.0x32.1x25.0x40.0x32.8x
P / B11.7x5.7x5.5x4.3x6.1x5.1x
P / S5.6x2.7x2.5x2.0x3.1x2.5x
EV / EBITDA25.1x12.2x10.9x8.5x13.5x10.9x
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)8.7%2.7%5.2%16.1%6.4%5.9%
Revenue CAGR (3y)5.5%7.9%9.2%9.4%14.9%8.8%
Revenue CAGR (5y)7.7%7.2%13.1%9.7%8.7%7.9%
Gross profit growth (YoY)8.5%1.4%4.3%15.8%8.2%2.1%
Operating income growth (YoY)9.6%-1.2%5.2%19.4%6.6%8.0%
Net income growth (YoY)9.4%-0.4%6.3%17.5%7.7%8.6%
EPS growth (YoY)9.0%-1.0%6.9%18.1%7.4%-46.0%
EPS CAGR (3y)4.9%7.7%10.7%-11.9%-32.7%-28.2%
EPS CAGR (5y)7.9%-6.2%-17.4%-14.0%-14.3%-15.9%
FCF growth (YoY)11.0%-24.9%64.2%25.1%-34.3%56.6%
FCF CAGR (5y)2.4%9.7%20.4%10.5%13.6%19.0%
Book value growth (YoY)9.1%8.0%5.9%4.0%11.3%2.5%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-12-31.

Business segments

$8.20B total
Reportable Segment Aggregation Before Other Operating Segment$6.82B · 83.2%
All Other Segments$1.38B · 16.8%

Geographic

$8.20B total
US$6.82B · 83.2%
Canadaand Mexico$1.11B · 13.5%
Non North America$271.40M · 3.3%

Stability scores

Piotroski F-score

FY 2025 · 9-point quality

7/9
Strong
  • Net income positive
  • Operating cash flow positive
  • ROA improved YoY
  • Cash flow > net income
  • Long-term debt decreased
  • Current ratio improved
  • No share dilution
  • Gross margin improved
  • Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Retail-Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply

CompanyRevenue (last FY)Net marginROE
SHW$23.57B10.9%55.9%
TSCO$15.52B7.1%42.5%
GRWG$161.74M-14.9%-24.7%
IPW$66.14M-2.3%-8.4%

Comparing FASTENAL CO against the 4 most active filers in the same SIC group.

Dividends

$0.92/share trailing 12 months · +11.5% YoY

Ex-datePer share
Apr 28, 2026$0.2400
Jan 29, 2026$0.2400
Oct 28, 2025$0.2200
Jul 29, 2025$0.2200
Apr 25, 2025$0.2200
Jan 31, 2025$0.2150
Oct 25, 2024$0.1950
Jul 26, 2024$0.1950
Apr 24, 2024$0.1950
Jan 31, 2024$0.1950
Dec 5, 2023$0.1900
Oct 25, 2023$0.1750
Jul 26, 2023$0.1750
Apr 26, 2023$0.1750
Feb 1, 2023$0.1750
Oct 26, 2022$0.1550
Jul 26, 2022$0.1550
Apr 26, 2022$0.1550
Feb 1, 2022$0.1550
Oct 25, 2021$0.1400
Jul 26, 2021$0.1400
Apr 23, 2021$0.1400
Feb 2, 2021$0.1400
Dec 1, 2020$0.2000