CASEY’S GENERAL STORES, INC. vs FASTENAL CO, two Retail stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where CASY and FAST diverge most: on debt / equity, CASY reads 0.59 and FAST reads 0.05; on ev/ebitda, CASY reads 213.5 and FAST reads 29.0. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's CASY price has a different growth bar priced in than FAST (+11.4% implied for CASY vs +28.3% for FAST); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What FAST's price implies is a demanding bet versus history and the cohort (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | CASY | FAST |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $615.56 | $49.32 |
| Market cap | $22.9B | $56.7B |
| Sector | Retail | Retail |
| Stage | Growth | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +11.4% | +28.3% |
| P/E | 29.6 | 33.8 |
| P/B | 5.58 | 13.94 |
| P/S | 1.22 | 6.48 |
| EV/EBITDA | 213.5 | 29.0 |
| Revenue growth | +13.3% | +12.5% |
| Gross margin | — | 44.6% |
| Operating margin | — | 21.0% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 15.4% |
| Return on equity | 18.9% | 33.2% |
| Return on assets | 8.5% | 25.5% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 31.8% |
| FCF yield | 2.8% | 2.0% |
| Dividend yield | 0.3% | 1.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.59 | 0.05 |
| Current ratio | 1.02 | 4.18 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 5.41 | 9.67 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 5 / 9 |
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