Fastenal Company

FAST stock score: 64/100

$51.91 · -1.56% · Scored Oct 23, 2026

Technical
67
Fundamental
61
News
49

The reading

Fastenal Company (FAST) scores 64 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 91% of Industrials stocks and 86% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 67, fundamentals 61.

Among the fundamentals, Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 and Current Ratio at 99 score highest, while Price to Book Ratio at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 66 and contrarian oscillators 30 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 49; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 58 to 68, and it is down 1 point over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward FAST’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

61

Pulling it up

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Current Ratio99

    Current ratio measures ability to pay short-term liabilities with current assets.

  • Return on Assets (ROA)99

    Return on Assets (ROA) shows how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate profit.

Holding it back

  • Price to Book Ratio0

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Fund Ownership0

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

62

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • Ichimoku Cloud100

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

  • 52-Week Range95

    Where the price sits between its 52-week low and high.

Holding it back

  • Candlestick Patterns0

    Candlestick patterns recognize specific price formations that historically suggest continuation or reversal.

  • Williams %R (28)9

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Williams %R (14)9

    Williams %R (14-period) measures where the current price sits within the recent high-low range.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Social Sentiment (3D)
54
Global News
47
Social Sentiment (1W)
47

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly491
Daily623
Weekly692
Monthly742
Quarterly752

Composite score, last 90 days

05010064Jul 25, 2026Oct 23, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 65Jul 26, 2026: 68Jul 27, 2026: 67Jul 28, 2026: 66Jul 29, 2026: 64Jul 30, 2026: 65Jul 31, 2026: 67Aug 2, 2026: 60Aug 3, 2026: 62Aug 4, 2026: 62Aug 5, 2026: 59Aug 6, 2026: 58Aug 7, 2026: 65Aug 8, 2026: 64Aug 9, 2026: 64Aug 10, 2026: 65Aug 11, 2026: 65Aug 12, 2026: 65Aug 13, 2026: 63Aug 14, 2026: 63Aug 15, 2026: 63Aug 16, 2026: 63Aug 17, 2026: 63Aug 18, 2026: 63Aug 19, 2026: 64Aug 20, 2026: 63Aug 22, 2026: 64Aug 23, 2026: 64Aug 24, 2026: 63Aug 25, 2026: 62Aug 26, 2026: 63Aug 27, 2026: 63Aug 28, 2026: 62Aug 29, 2026: 62Aug 30, 2026: 62Aug 31, 2026: 61Sep 1, 2026: 62Sep 2, 2026: 61Sep 3, 2026: 62Sep 4, 2026: 63Sep 5, 2026: 62Sep 6, 2026: 62Sep 7, 2026: 62Sep 8, 2026: 63Sep 9, 2026: 61Sep 10, 2026: 61Sep 11, 2026: 63Sep 12, 2026: 62Sep 13, 2026: 62Sep 14, 2026: 62Sep 15, 2026: 62Sep 16, 2026: 61Sep 17, 2026: 62Sep 18, 2026: 63Sep 19, 2026: 63Sep 20, 2026: 63Sep 21, 2026: 63Sep 22, 2026: 63Sep 23, 2026: 65Sep 24, 2026: 64Sep 25, 2026: 63Sep 26, 2026: 64Sep 27, 2026: 64Sep 28, 2026: 63Sep 29, 2026: 63Sep 30, 2026: 61Oct 1, 2026: 63Oct 2, 2026: 64Oct 3, 2026: 64Oct 4, 2026: 64Oct 5, 2026: 64Oct 6, 2026: 64Oct 7, 2026: 62Oct 8, 2026: 63Oct 9, 2026: 64Oct 10, 2026: 64Oct 11, 2026: 64Oct 12, 2026: 65Oct 13, 2026: 64Oct 14, 2026: 63Oct 15, 2026: 63Oct 16, 2026: 64Oct 17, 2026: 64Oct 18, 2026: 64Oct 19, 2026: 64Oct 20, 2026: 65Oct 21, 2026: 65Oct 22, 2026: 65Oct 23, 2026: 64
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Key facts

Market cap
$59.6B
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Industrial Distribution
Beta
0.69
Risk grade (1–10)
5
Next earnings
Oct 14, 2026

Industrial Distribution peers

CompanyMarket capScore
GWW W.W. Grainger$64.1B64
FERG Ferguson Enterprises$44.0B50
WCC WESCO International$15.8B55
WSO Watsco$13.5B51
AIT Applied Industrial Technologies$11.7B62
QXO QXO$11.4B40

Questions

What is FAST's stock score today?

FAST scores 64/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 23, 2026: technical 67, fundamental 61, and news sentiment 49, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is FAST a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 64 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the FAST score calculated?

103 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Industrials ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.