Fastenal Co (FAST) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $80.45, with 4.04 million shares of worth about $325.15 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 4.90% during that period and on April 16, 2025 the price saw a loss of about -1.47%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 573.61M shares, out of which, 572.33M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 5.20% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.73%. Year-to-date (YTD), FAST shares are showing a performance of 11.88% which increased to 15.94% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $61.36 but also hit the highest price of $84.88 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Fastenal Co shares is 3.74 million. The stock is currently trading 4.45% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 5.89% for SMA50 and it goes to 9.08% higher than SMA200.
Fastenal Co (NASDAQ: FAST) currently have 573.61M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 84.08% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $46.13B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.99. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 40.12, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.01 in the same period. Its PEG reads 4.71 and has Quick Ratio of 2.14 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.13. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for FAST, volatility over the week remained 4.16% while standing at 3.27% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 8.94% while it is estimated to increase by 9.74% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 8.52% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.79% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
On December 11, 2024, Stifel Downgrade their recommendations, while on December 11, 2024, HSBC Securities Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $70. Stock get a Neutral rating from UBS on November 13, 2024.
