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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000815556-25-000116"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FAST"
cik: "0000815556"
company_name: "FASTENAL CO"
filed_at: "2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:02:00.323881+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fastenal Q3 net sales $2.13B (+11.7% YoY); EPS $0.29 (+12.3% YoY)

## Summary
- Q3 net sales $2,133M (+11.7% YoY); diluted EPS $0.29 (+12.3% YoY).
- Gross margin 45.3% vs 44.9% YoY; operating margin 20.7% vs 20.3%.
- DSR +11.7% on pricing (+240-270 bps) and improved customer signings; contracts outperformed non-contracts.
- Weighted FASTBin/FASTVend signings 7,050 (-3.2% YoY); full-year target 25k-26k MEUs unchanged.
- Capex 2025 guided $235-255M vs $214.1M in 2024; no share repurchases; dividend payments continued.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000815556-25-000116
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FAST
- cik: 0000815556
- company_name: FASTENAL CO
- filed_at: 2025-10-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555625000116/0000815556-25-000116-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555625000116/fast-20251013.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000815556-25-000116
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000815556-25-000116.txt

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