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Fastenal FAST

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Price History

$0.0332$17.43$34.82$52.22
1987-08 · DCA start$0.0339

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-56.6%-37.7%-18.9%0.0%
1987-082026-08 · 0.0%

Worst drawdown: −57%, peaking Aug 1997 and bottoming Sep 1998 — 23 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$46,900
Value today
$4,263,967
Return
+8991.6%
Months invested
469

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $81,488 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +5132.6%.

Lump sum instead — $46,900 all at once in Aug 1987: $72,343,535 (+154150.6%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Aug 2025): $1,497 on $1,300 invested (+15.1%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1987-08: +8991.6%

About Fastenal

Fastenal Company is an American publicly traded company based in Winona, Minnesota, founded in 1967. Fastenal is a major distributor of industrial and construction supplies, and the largest fastener distributor in North America. Fastenal provides supply chain solutions including bin stock, vending machines, inventory management, and logistics services. Fastenal placed 479 in the 2021 Fortune 500 based on its 2020 revenues, and its stock is a component of the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 stock market indices. Fastenal had 3,334 in-market locations as of March 2023. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under industrials and trading companies & distributors, with a market cap of about $59.9B.

It rates Low Risk at 1.5/5, meaning the rated factors look benign — steady pricing, deep liquidity, and no obvious structural red flags.

Scoring well: earnings quality at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Low Risk(1.5/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.3/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/523.6
  • Max drawdown from ATH3/556.6
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.90
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5362.2m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equity1/50.05
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched
Earnings Quality1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility1/57.1
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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