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Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type |
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Fastenal Company | NASDAQ:FAST | NASDAQ | Common Stock |
Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade | |
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0.34 | 0.50% | 68.43 | 68.49 | 70.70 | 68.95 | 68.02 | 68.50 | 2,592,955 | 01:00:00 |
By Imani Moise
Fastenal Co. said its fourth-quarter earnings rose as the industrial company saw an uptick in sales at its existing stores.
The Winona, Minn.-based distributor of nuts, bolts, hand tools and other supplies has suffered from a slowdown in construction and continuing economic uncertainty.
Growth in its fasteners business has slowed steadily since its peak at over 10% in 2014, but the company has seen improvements outside its core business with products such as safety supplies, which now comprise over 15% of total revenue in the most recent quarter. Daily sales growth for non-fastening products, which tend to have tighter margins, grew 5.9%, while sales in its fastener business contracted 2.4%.
Over all for the quarter, Fastenal reported a profit of $114.8 million, or 40 cents a share, up from $111.9 million, or 39 cents, a year earlier. Revenue rose 2.7% to $947.9 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast earnings of 38 cents on $951.7 million in revenue.
Fastenal said its store count fell 4.5% to 2,622 at the end of the quarter from a year prior. In recent years, Fastenal has grown its industrial vending-machine business. The number of vending machines grew 13% to 62,822.
Shares, inactive premarket, closed Wednesday at $48.26 and have risen 26% over the past three months.
Write to Imani Moise at imani.moise@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 18, 2017 08:04 ET (13:04 GMT)
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