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FAST · CIK 0000815556 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31

FASTENAL CO

SafeSEC 10-KZ″Consumer99th percentile in Consumer · 430 names

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Model

Z″

FY2025

12.01

Zone

Safe

Prior

Market DD

1y PD

12.01

Classic Z 6.56

−21.12.68+

Z″ 12.01 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.

Z″ factor contributions

  • X1 Working capital / assets

    Short-term liquidity. Carries more weight in Z″ than in classic Z.

    0.55
    6.56 × = 3.58
  • X2 Retained earnings / assets

    Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.

    0.77
    3.26 × = 2.50
  • X3 EBIT / assets

    Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.

    0.33
    6.72 × = 2.20
  • X4 Book equity / liabilities

    Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.

    3.56
    1.05 × = 3.73

Five-year path

Need two annual 10-Ks to draw a path. The desk will pull this issuer’s filings rather than invent a series.

Overview

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FASTENAL CO is on Z″ at 12.01 (safe) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Book equity / liabilities is the line that sets the print; working capital / assets is the runner-up. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Z″ drops sales/assets so asset-light names are not punished for turnover. X4 is book equity on every name.

Book screen Safe; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.

Market DD · naive Merton

No market tape yet.

Pull a year of closes (Yahoo, Nasdaq if Yahoo is limited) and size equity from Nasdaq cap or EDGAR shares. Distance-to-default and 1-year PD stay blank until then.

Sector peers

Closest Z″ scores · 99th percentile in Consumer.

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Current assets

$3.5B

Total assets

$5.1B

Current liabilities

$716M

Total liabilities

$1.1B

Working capital

$2.8B

Retained earnings

$3.9B

EBIT

$1.7B

Total sales

$8.2B

Book equity

$3.9B

Accession 0000815556-26-000009. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 12 Sept 2026.