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Fastenal

FAST

Market cap $59.6B

51.91 USD

-0.64

1.22%

At close Updated Oct 30, 4:00 PM EDT

Pre-market

After hours

51.97

+0.06

0.12%

1 day

-1.22%

5 days

-0.31%

1 month

4.81%

3 months

11.25%

6 months

15.54%

Year to date

28.36%

1 year

24.93%

5 years

82.85%

10 years

432.41%

About: Fastenal began as an industrial retailer, expanding its product portfolio from nuts and bolts to cutting tools, safety equipment, and janitorial supplies. It transitioned into a distributor by building out a dense network of branches close to its business customers. Once a customer becomes large enough, Fastenal installs vending machines and its own personnel on-site. Today, these on-site locations exceed Fastenal's branch count and remain the firm's main focus for expansion. Fastenal acts as a one-stop outsourcing partner for its industrial customers, offering value-added services along with a wide breadth of maintenance, repair, and operations supplies.

Employees: 24,679

Industrials Industrial Distribution

News

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Sentiment 3-Months

Positive 60%

Neutral 33.3%

Negative 6.7%

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Fastenal NASDAQ: FAST had a good Q3, but raised concerns about margin compression. Investors should not get this wrong: the slim gross margin contraction is primarily due to customer mix, with some additional price-cost pressure, and is offset by several factors.

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