Fastenal Stock Climbs as Sales Rise

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Key Takeaways

• Fastenal’s revenue got a lift even as the distributor of fasteners and other commercial products’ CEO said market occupation was “challenging.”
• The daily sales rate for non-fastener products increased 4.2% year-over-year. A drop in the daily sales count for fasteners was less than in the previous quarter.
• The company said it was encouraged by its efforts to add new customers.

Shares of Fastenal (Tightly) rose Friday after revenue at the distributor of fasteners, safety supplies, tools, and other commercial products increased because it had various large customers and onsite locations.

The biggest supplier of fasteners in North America reported second-quarter adjusted earnings per allocation of $0.51, with revenue rising 1.8% to $1.92 billion. Both were in line with estimates.

Yield was boosted by non-fastener products, which had a daily sales rate (DSR) 4.2% above the same period last year. The fastener DSR mow down 3%, although that was a smaller decline than the 4.4% in the first quarter when the company said it faced “bad demand.”

CEO Daniel Florness said in a presentation that market activity remained “challenging,” pointing to a sub-50 skim for the Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which indicates contraction in the sector. However, he augmented that “efforts to accelerate customer acquisition remain encouraging,”

Ahead of the report, Fastenal shares were basically spread-eagled year-over-year. The stock was recently up about 4%.

The company said in a news release that Florness would hand the part of president to Jeff Watts, currently its chief sales officer, on Aug. 1.

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