Fastenal quarterly revenue jumps 231% to $7.05 billion
Fastenal's revenue growth is speeding up. Results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from the earnings release filed with the SEC on Oct 14, 2026.
Snapshot
Fastenal's revenue growth is speeding up: revenue jumped 231% to $7.05 billion in the quarter ended September 30, 2026, from $2.13 billion a year earlier, after 14.7% year over year growth the quarter before.
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What We Know
Revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 was $7.05 billion, versus $2.13 billion in the same quarter a year earlier, up 231%. That is its highest quarterly revenue of the last eight quarters.
Quarterly revenue by fiscal quarter end, oldest first: Dec 2024: $1.82 billion; Mar 2025: $1.96 billion; Jun 2025: $2.08 billion; Sep 2025: $2.13 billion; Dec 2025: $2.03 billion; Mar 2026: $2.20 billion; Jun 2026: $2.39 billion; Sep 2026: $7.05 billion.
Octans View
Year over year revenue change by quarter, computed from the filed figures: Dec 2025 up 11.1%; Mar 2026 up 12.4%; Jun 2026 up 14.7%; Sep 2026 up 231%. On those figures, Fastenal's revenue growth is speeding up. That read compares the latest two year over year growth rates and nothing else.
Bear Case · Room for Disagreement
This brief covers reported revenue and diluted earnings per share only. It does not cover guidance, margins, segment results, cash flow or the earnings call, and it makes no forecast. Revenue is the total on the release line we matched; a company's own adjusted measures can differ.
Method and source. Octans Research matched the revenue line in the earnings release (Exhibit 99.1) to the year ago quarter the company reported in its own XBRL financial data; the two must agree before anything is published. The quarterly history comes from the same XBRL data. The text is generated from those verified figures by a fixed template; no model wrote it.
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Sources
- [1]SEC EDGAR — Fastenal earnings release for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 (Exhibit 99.1), filed Oct 14, 2026
- [2]SEC EDGAR — Fastenal XBRL financial data (company facts)
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