Fastenal Co. (FAST): Price and Financial Metrics

FAST POWR Grades

• FAST scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 97.53% of US stocks.
• FAST's strongest trending metric is Quality; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• FAST's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 4.61% of US stocks).

FAST Stock Summary

• FAST has a market capitalization of $34,753,348,695 -- more than approximately 92.82% of US stocks.
• FAST's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 495.66 -- higher than 93.61% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, FAST is more volatile than only 3.83% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to FASTENAL CO, a group of peers worth examining would be HSY, PAYX, GWW, ULTA, and WIT.
• FAST's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit FASTENAL CO's official web site, go to www.fastenal.com.

FAST Valuation Summary

• FAST's price/earnings ratio is 30.2; this is 45.19% higher than that of the median Industrials stock.
• FAST's price/earnings ratio has moved down 14.7 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FAST.

FAST Growth Metrics

The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 23.76%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -29.86%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at 56.9%.

FAST's revenue has moved up $1,589,200,000 over the prior 34 months.

The table below shows FAST's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	6,980.6	941	1,086.9
2022-09-30	6,817	795.5	1,072.5
2022-06-30	6,568.8	705	1,031.4
2022-03-31	6,297.9	725.3	984
2021-12-31	6,010.9	770.1	925
2021-09-30	5,836.9	934.7	889.9

FAST's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• FAST has a Quality Grade of A, ranking ahead of 96.11% of graded US stocks.
• FAST's asset turnover comes in at 1.421 -- ranking 86th of 165 Retail stocks.
• KR, BIG, and ZUMZ are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FAST.

The table below shows FAST's key quality metrics over time.