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FAST (Fastenal Co) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 3.49 (As of Apr. 19, 2025)


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What is Fastenal Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Fastenal Co's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 3.49.


The historical rank and industry rank for Fastenal Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

FAST' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.02   Med: 4.2   Max: 5.48
Current: 3.49


During the past 13 years, Fastenal Co's highest Yield on Cost was 5.48. The lowest was 3.02. And the median was 4.20.


FAST's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked worse than
60.95% of 105 companies
in the Industrial Distribution industry
Industry Median: 3.96 vs FAST: 3.49

Competitive Comparison of Fastenal Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Industrial Distribution subindustry, Fastenal Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Fastenal Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Industrial Distribution Industry

For the Industrial Distribution industry and Industrials sector, Fastenal Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Fastenal Co's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.


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Fastenal Co 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Fastenal Co is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Fastenal Co  (NAS:FAST) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.


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Fastenal Co Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2001 Theurer Boulevard, Winona, MN, USA, 55987-1500
Fastenal opened its first fastener store in 1967 in Winona, Minnesota. Since then, it has greatly expanded its footprint as well as its products and services. Today, Fastenal serves its 400,000 active customers through approximately 1,600 branches, over 2,000 on-site locations, and 15 distribution centers. Since 1993, the company has added other product categories, but fasteners remain its largest category at about 30%-35% of sales. Fastenal also offers customers supply chain solutions, such as vending and vendor-managed inventory.
Executives
Holden Lewis officer: Chief Financial Officer/EVP 6714 MELODY LANE, BETHESDA MD 20817
James C Jansen officer: Executive Vice President 2001 THEURER BLVD, WINONA MN 55987
Daniel L. Johnson director 6951 HIGHOVER DRIVE, CHANHASSEN MN 55317
Charles S. Miller officer: Officer-Executive Vice Preside 230 CASCADE DR., PADUCAH KY 42003
Daniel L Florness officer: Exec. V-P and CFO FASTENAL CO, 2001 THEURER BLVD, WINONA MN 55987
Sheryl Ann Lisowski officer: Controller/Chief Acct. Officer 155 WILDWOOD DRIVE, WINONA MN 55987
Nicholas J Lundquist officer: Executive Vice-President 2001 THEURER BLVD, WINONA MN 55987
John Lewis Soderberg officer: Executive Vice President 1757 SNOWFLAKE PLACE, ONALASKA WI 54650
William Joseph Drazkowski officer: Executive Vice-President 806 OLYMPIC DRIVE, ONALASKA WI 54650
Rita J. Heise director 7329 MARINER DRIVE, MAPLE GROVE MN 55311
Anthony Paul Broersma officer: EVP-Operations 4730 NORTH SERVICE DRIVE, WINONA MN 55987
Reyne K Wisecup director
Hsenghung Sam Hsu director 2032 SUMMIT AVENUE, SAINT PAUL MN 55105
Jeffery Michael Watts officer: Executive Vice-President 48 LAUREL CR., INGERSOLL A6 N5C-3S4
Scott Satterlee director 8100 MITCHELL RD, STE 200, EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55344