Fastenal Company Releases Comments on September 2008 Trends
October 02 2008 - 1:19PM
PR Newswire (US)
WINONA, Minn., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Fastenal
Company of Winona, MN (NASDAQ:FAST) released comments on September
2008 trends. We plan to release our third quarter earnings on
Monday, October 13, 2008. We typically remain silent on information
about the final month of the quarter until the earnings release;
however, given the sharp drop in share price experienced by a
number of industrial stocks on Wednesday, October 1st, and given
the unexpected drop in the ISM index(1) as reported on Wednesday,
October 1st we decided to release some commentary on trends for our
shareholders. Commentary: (1) Our sales growth from September 2007
to September 2008 was approximately 26.4%. There were 19 business
days in September 2007 and 21 business days in September 2008.
Adjusting for the two extra business days in 2008, our daily sales
growth from September 2007 to September 2008 was approximately
14.3%. This daily sales growth was above our internal expectation
for the month. (2) We have felt the impact of a weakened economic
environment in North America over much of 2007 and 2008. Our trends
in September 2008 remained consistent with trends earlier in the
third quarter and earlier in the year. (3) We were surprised by the
reported ISM index(1) of 43.5 for September versus the 50.0 and
49.9 reported after July and August, respectively. It is
inconsistent with our results in September. As indicated above, it
is not our practice to release piecemeal financial information at
quarter end. However, given the sharp movement in our stock price,
we felt a need to share some preliminary trend information with our
long-term shareholder base. (1) ISM index -- index published by the
Institute for Supply Management (http://www.ism.ws/) ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION: Additional information regarding certain Fastenal
Company statistics for the current quarter is available on the
Fastenal Company World Wide Web site at http://www.fastenal.com/.
The Company discloses sales and store information on a monthly
basis. This information is posted at http://www.fastenal.com/ on
the third business day following the end of the first two months of
a quarter and is typically posted simultaneous with the earnings
release following the third month of a quarter. A discussion of
other risks and uncertainties is included in the Company's 2007
annual report on Form 10-K under the section captioned "Risk
Factors" and the Company's 2007 annual report to shareholders under
the section captioned "Management's Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations". FAST-S DATASOURCE:
The Fastenal Company CONTACT: Dan Florness, EVP-CFO of The Fastenal
Company, +1-507-453-8211 Web site: http://www.fastenal.com/
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