Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes — just in case...
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September 6 - News - Comments
Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock’s current yield, but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends. That...
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September 3 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
There’s never a dull week on Wall Street. Let’s go over some of the news that will shape the week to come. Monday The first trading day of...
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July 8 - News - Comments
Fastenal Company (NASDAQ:FAST) is slated to release its quarterly report on Wednesday. Yet although investors expect Fastenal earnings to improve slightly...
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July 8 - News - Comments
The recovery of the housing market will help companies disproportionately, because some have weathered headwinds better than others. Also, restructuring...
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July 3 - News - Comments
The industrial distribution industry is highly fragmented, with the top 50 distributors representing about 30% of the roughly $140 billion North American...
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June 26 - News - Comments
Do you think nuts, bolts and screws are boring? You won’t after you see how much money Fastenal Company (NASDAQ:FAST) makes selling them to ...
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June 17 - News - Comments
With the U.S. economy showing signs of finally producing a sustainable recovery, there are opportunities to be found in some of the companies that produce...
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June 14 - News - Comments
There have been two major themes to the first quarter reporting season. The first is that tech spending has been weak across the board, and the second...
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May 28 - News - Comments
I would rather forget last month. After nine months of gains, I hit a nasty double digit loss. In truth, this sort of thing was inevitable and the preceding...
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May 15 - News - Comments
Fastenal Company (NASDAQ:FAST)‘s name no longer does the company justice, as the company has grown from a fastener distributor to a full-line industrial...
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April 23 - News - Comments
It’s not a perfect world out there for investors, but things may be starting to get better. Seeing just 88,000 nonfarm payrolls added in March was...
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April 8 - News - Comments
Spring is finally here, and a new earnings season is right around the corner. On Wednesday, Fastenal Company (NASDAQ:FAST) will release its latest quarterly...
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April 8 - News - Comments
The economy is still expanding, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index, which came in at 51.3 for March, the fourth...
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April 3 - News - Comments
Buying the US housing recovery has been one of the most profitable trades over the last year, but what of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (NYSE:SWK)?...
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March 18 - News - Comments
Davos is the location of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. It’s supposedly where the world’s best and brightest share ideas. One...
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February 5 - News - Comments
It’s not chips and soda that maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) shops such as Fastenal Company (NASDAQ:FAST) and W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE...
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February 5 - News - Comments
