Fastenal dividend yield FAST

Dividends per share over the last twelve months divided by the share price, since 1991.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 1.85%
10-year median: 2.3%
Against its 10-year history: 6th; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 0.5% to 3.1%
Peer median: 1.1%

Fastenal pays 1.85% of its share price in dividends over a year, as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 2.3%, lower than on 94% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 0.5% in Mar 2024 to 3.1% in Mar 2020.

The median for 8 industrial distribution stocks of a similar size is 1.1%.

Dividend yield over time

median 2.3%

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	1.8%	1.8%	2.2%
2025	2.1%	1.7%	2.2%
2024	2.1%	0.5%	2.4%
2023	2.2%	2.2%	2.6%
2022	2.6%	1.8%	2.8%
2021	1.7%	1.7%	2.6%
2020	2.4%	2.0%	3.1%
2019	2.4%	2.3%	3.0%
2018	3.0%	2.2%	3.1%
2017	2.3%	2.3%	3.1%
2016	2.6%	2.3%	3.1%
2015	2.7%	2.1%	3.0%
2014	2.1%	1.7%	2.4%
2013	1.7%	0.2%	2.4%
2012	2.3%	1.1%	2.5%
2011	1.5%	1.5%	2.9%
2010	2.7%	1.4%	3.0%
2009	1.7%	1.7%	4.3%
2008	3.0%	0.9%	3.2%
2007	1.1%	0.9%	1.2%

Companies in Industrial - Distribution nearest Fastenal's size, closest first, today.

Company	Dividend yield
FASTFastenal	1.85%
GWWW.W. Grainger	0.70%
FERGFerguson	1.57%
WCCWESCO International	n/m
WSOWatsco	n/m
AITApplied Industrial Technologies	n/m
CNMCore & Main	n/m
POOLPool	n/m
MSMMSC Industrial Direct	n/m
Peer median	1.14%