US Equities Analysis

FAST — Fastenal

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 20.33%
Profit Margins 15.39%
Return on Equity 33.84%
Return on Assets 21.2%
Free Float 1.14B
Dividend Yield 1.95%
Short Int % Utilisation 2.83%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 12.4%
Free Cash Flow 0.9B
EBITDA 28.05 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 52.98B
EV/Revenue 6.28
EV/EBITDA 28.05

Revenue growth of 12.4% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 10.27%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 25.64%
1-Year Price Return* 6.65%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $51.02
52-Week Range $38.97 – $52.92
Observation Count 251 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $51.23
Market capitalisation $58.79B
Enterprise value proxy $58.95B
Revenue $8.20B
EBIT $1.66B
EBITDA $1.84B
Reported free cash flow $1.05B
Unlevered free cash flow $1.05B
FCF yield 1.79%
EV / EBITDA proxy 32.03x
Net debt / EBITDA 0.09x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.71
Cost of equity 8.64%
Pre-tax cost of debt 1.34%
WACC 8.58%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 3/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:36:58.725920 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-12-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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