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Fastenal price to free cash flow FAST

Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2010.

Today, Oct 23, 2026
51.5×
10-year median
36.2×
Against its 10-year history
90th
percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range
27.4× to 66.0×
Peer median
25.3×

Fastenal's price to free cash flow is 51.5× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is above its ten-year median of 36.2×, higher than on 90% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 27.4× in Oct 2023 to 66.0× in Aug 2025.

The median for 8 industrial distribution stocks of a similar size is 25.3×.

Price to free cash flow over time

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

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Year by year

YearEnd of yearLowHigh
2026 so far51.5×42.7×53.7×
202549.4×39.4×66.0×
202440.1×29.5×45.9×
202330.8×27.4×49.9×
202243.5×40.8×60.2×
202147.5×27.8×47.5×
202033.1×27.7×41.8×
201942.0×30.4×45.6×
201830.4×28.8×39.3×
201732.9×28.4×46.2×
201641.3×27.1×43.1×
201529.4×27.0×61.3×
201461.8×53.2×72.2×
201362.0×51.7×66.2×
201255.3×49.1×108×
201188.9×51.9×89.0×
201053.8×28.1×53.8×

Against its peers

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

CompanyPrice to free cash flow
FASTFastenal51.5×
GWWW.W. Grainger42.1×
FERGFergusonn/m
WCCWESCO International99.9×
WSOWatsco19.1×
AITApplied Industrial Technologies25.3×
CNMCore & Main12.7×
POOLPool24.0×
MSMMSC Industrial Direct28.9×
Peer median25.3×

What the price to free cash flow tells you

Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.

Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.

More on Fastenal

Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of . Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.