On the Record · Fastenal
Fastenal competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Fastenal as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Fastenal names
Fastenal’s annual reports for 2023 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Fastenal
Companies whose own annual reports name Fastenal as a competitor.
Word for word“In industrial distribution, our main competitor is Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., but we also compete against Fastenal Company, and W.W. Grainger, Inc, among many other smaller, regional competitors.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We face competition from large diversified MRO distributors such as Uline Inc, Grainger Inc., MSC Industrial Direct Inc., Fastenal Inc., and other large retailers, including Amazon.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“The majority of our competition comes from mid-size regional distributors and small, local distributors; however, we also face competition from a number of national competitors, including Fastenal, Grainger, MSC Industrial, Watsco, Home Depot Pro (a division of The Home Depot, Inc.), Maintenance Supply Headquarters (a division of Lowe’s Companies, Inc.) and Ferguson.” 10-K for 2020
Read from Fastenal’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-05. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.