The company is increasing spending on industrial vending equipment, IT infrastructure, and facility construction.
Filing excerpt
During the first six months of 2026, our net capital expenditures were $118.2, which was a slight increase from $118.1 in the first six months of 2025.
What this signalsFilings often name leadership changes, deals and spending plans.
Technologies
Vendors
sec-10qautomationInvestmentGet every 10-Q signal for Fastenal and the companies you sell to, in the tools you already use.
Connect Autobound to Claude, Claude Code or Cursor with MCP. Then ask: “What changed at Fastenal this week?”
The Signal API returns 10-Q signals for any list of companies as JSON, for your CRM, warehouse or app.
Sign up and spend your free credits on the companies you sell to.
This page shows a preview. The full sec-10q record in the Signal API and MCP can also have these 8 fields. Some fields are empty for some signals.
Company
linkedin_urlValue in the APIindustriesValue in the APIemployee_count_lowValue in the APIemployee_count_highValue in the APIrevenueValue in the APIdescriptionValue in the APISignal
signal_nameValue in the APIassociationValue in the APIGET /v1/signals/2d0bb6eb-9273-48af-8145-e0e41bffc04b returns this record as JSON. POST /v1/companies/enrich returns every signal for fastenal.com.
{
"signal_id": "2d0bb6eb-9273-48af-8145-e0e41bffc04b",
"signal_type": "sec-10q",
"signal_subtype": "automationInvestment",
"detected_at": "2026-07-21T07:03:13.231+00:00",
"company": {
"name": "Fastenal",
"domain": "fastenal.com"
},
"data": {
"detail": "The company is increasing spending on industrial vending equipment, IT infrastructure, and facility construction. This significant capital outlay indicates available budget for solutions that can optimize new facilities, improve vending machine deployment and management, and support the underlying IT systems for this expansion.",
"metrics": {
"timeframe": "current_year",
"dollar_context": "Net capital expenditures in the first six months of 2026",
"dollar_millions": 118.2
},
"summary": "Fastenal commits $118.2M in H1 2026 CapEx for vending equipment, IT, and facility upgrades.",
"excerpts": "During the first six months of 2026, our net capital expenditures were $118.2, which was a slight increase from $118.1 in the first six months of 2025.",
"relevance": 0.9,
"sentiment": "positive",
"confidence": "high",
"source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/815556/000081555626000041/fast-20260630.htm",
"filing_date": "2026-07-16",
"filing_year": 2026,
"fiscal_year": 0,
"fiscal_year_end": "06/30",
"sales_relevance": "Automation vendor opportunity",
"signal_category": "technology",
"vendors_mentioned": [
"Wells Fargo Bank"
],
"technologies_mentioned": [
"industrial vending equipment"
]
}
}
curl https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/signals/2d0bb6eb-9273-48af-8145-e0e41bffc04b \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY"curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/enrich \
-H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"domain":"fastenal.com","limit":20}'Long text fields are shortened on this page.
Looking up one signal by its id is free. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned; a call with no results is free.