Overview
Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) is a major American industrial supplies distributor with over $8B in annual revenue. While primarily known for fasteners and industrial vending solutions (FASTVend ), Fastenal partners with FIRST Robotics to fabricate competition-accessibility ramps and has invested in industrial automation equipment. The Winona, Minnesota-based company operates over 100,000 vending machines and is not a primary robotics manufacturer.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Data & sources
Web sources
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Fastenal Company on the deployment map
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Current leadership (2)
- Jeffery M. Watts CEO & Presidentreported, not verified
- Daniel Florness Former CEOreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Fastenal Company.
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Recent coverage
Fastenal Company in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- sec_10k
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
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Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Fastenal Company.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Fastenal Company from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Fastenal and FIRST Robotics Team Up to Make Competitions Accessible to All
Fastenal's engineering and manufacturing teams fabricated accessibility ramps for FIRST Robotics competitions.
Fastenal Announces CEO Transition
Fastenal's Board appointed Jeffery M. Watts to succeed Daniel Florness as CEO.
What we learned after installing our 100,000th vending machine
Fastenal reflects on lessons from deploying over 100,000 industrial vending machines for inventory management.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/fastenal.md
- RSS feed: /companies/fastenal/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/d17c4783-ce19-4ce5-93dd-c855ce514d5f
- Revision history: /companies/fastenal/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Fastenal Company against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
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DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 6, 2026