FAST
Fastenal
Data as of 2026-07-21
Company attributes
Price
Interactive 5-year price history chart for FAST. Latest close $45.01.
Pillar breakdown
0–100 percentile rank against the current universe (sector-relative for Quality / Value / Growth / Profitability)
- QualityProfit margins & asset efficiency91ExceptionalIndustrials median (n=257) 50
- ValuePrice vs fundamentals18PoorIndustrials median (n=257) 50
- GrowthRevenue & earnings trajectory28WeakIndustrials median (n=257) 50
- MomentumRecent price strength48AverageIndustrials median (n=257) 56
- HealthBalance sheet & solvency88ExceptionalIndustrials median (n=257) 59
- ProfitabilityROE, ROA, ROIC91ExceptionalIndustrials median (n=257) 49
- TechnicalTrend & volatility signals24PoorIndustrials median (n=257) 45
- RiskVolatility & drawdown profile62StrongIndustrials median (n=257) 50
Pillars not shown: Sentiment, ML (Phase 5+).
Recent regulatory events
- Auditor change (8-K Item 4.01)AnnotateView filing
Latest 8-K: 2025-02-06
Risk Summary
Low- Restatement history (10-K/A, 5y)[restatement_history]
- Accruals momentum (Δ TATA > 0.05 over 3y)[accruals_momentum_high]
Rolls up Phase 4.5 earnings-manipulation defenses (Sloan · Beneish · Dechow · REM · restatement · late-filing · earnings- quality time-series) into a single 0-100 risk index. The soft composite penalty (max 10 pts) is informational only — the ranking uses the raw composite score per project Rule 16.
Fair price check
6 different valuation methods each estimate what FASTshould be worth, then we compare to today's price.
- P/E multiplesOvervaluedthinks it's expensive — estimates $32.30, about 28% below today
- EV/EBITDAOvervaluedthinks it's expensive — estimates $27.56, about 39% below today
- P/B multiplesOvervaluedthinks it's expensive — estimates $17.64, about 61% below today
- Graham (defensive)Overvaluedthinks it's expensive — estimates $11.66, about 74% below today
- DCF (2-stage)Overvaluedthinks it's expensive — estimates $10.68, about 76% below today
- Residual IncomeOvervaluedthinks it's expensive — estimates $9.28, about 79% below today
How to read this: “Cheap” = method's fair price is at least 20% above today. “Fair” = within ±10–20%. “Pricey” = at least 10% below today. Outliers (values more than 5× or less than 0.2× today's price) are excluded.
Fair price ensemble
- Median fair
- $14.65
- Margin of safety(vs fair value)
- < −99%
- Max (ex-outliers)
- $32.30
- Tangible BVPS
- $3.55
- Restatement history
- Accruals momentum
Median of all applicable methods (current price $45.01). Per-method estimates + each method’s cheap/fair/pricey read are in the Fair price check above. Outliers above 5× or below 0.2× current price are excluded from the max but kept in the median. See methodology for the 6-method ensemble + 7 defenses.
Defense layer. Flags mark elevated risk, never confirmed fraud. This model cannot catch every manipulation and decays after publication — weigh it against its stated error rates.
Supporting dataRaw fundamentals & data-quality provenance behind the scores above
Raw fundamentals (SEC EDGAR)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Market cap | $51.65B |
| Revenue (TTM) | $8.75B |
| Net income (TTM) | $1.35B |
| Operating cash flow (TTM) | $1.40B |
| CapEx (TTM) | $243.30M |
| Free cash flow (TTM)CFO − CapEx | $1.16B |
| Total assets | $5.29B |
| Total liabilities | N/A |
| Stockholders' equity | $4.07B |
| Cash & equivalents | $204.70M |
| Shares outstanding | 1.15B |
| EPS (basic) | $1.18 |
| EPS (diluted) | $1.18 |
| P/E ratio (TTM) | 38.20 |
TTM = trailing twelve months. Balance sheet items are point-in-time (latest filing).
Data quality
- Latest filed date
- 2026-07-16
- Latest period end
- 2026-07-10
- Filing lag
- 5 days
- Missing metrics
- 4(total_liabilities, research_and_development, goodwill, intangibles_net)
Composite is the 8-pillar weighted score over quality, value, growth, momentum, health, profitability, technical, and risk. Sentiment + ML pillars are reserved for a later phase; until then their weight redistributes pro-rata. Fair price is the median of 6 valuation methods (Graham, P/E / P/B / EV-EBITDA multiples, RIM, DCF) with outliers above 5× current price excluded from the max. Risk-overlay flags annotate only — they suppress the entered-top-5 badge but do not modify the composite.